What are the hardware requirements for K2 Horizon 7B FP8?

K2 Horizon 7B FP8 requires approximately 11.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 512K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed K2 Horizon 7B FP8 and how large is it?

K2 Horizon 7B FP8 is developed by IFM, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate K2 Horizon 7B FP8?

K2 Horizon 7B FP8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

K2 Horizon 7B FP8 by IFM — VRAM 11.1GB, 512K context

Name: K2 Horizon 7B FP8
Author: IFM

K2 Horizon 7B FP8 is an open-source language model by IFM. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 11.1GB, Context: 512K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

7b Compressed-tensors Conversational Custom code Dataset:ifm/k2-horizon-midtrai... Dataset:ifm/k2-horizon-pretrai... Dense En Ifm K2-horizon K2 horizon Open-weights Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/IFM/K2-Horizon-7B-FP8

K2 Horizon 7B FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	K2 Horizon 7B FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/IFM/K2-Horizon-7B-FP8
Model Name	K2-Horizon-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	11.1 GB
Updated	2026-09-05
Maintainer	IFM
Model Type	k2_horizon
Model Files	11.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	K2HorizonForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	524288
Model Max Length	524288
Transformers Version	5.13.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Vocabulary Size	250624

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K2 Horizon 7B	512K / 18.5 GB	590	56
Jais 3 7B	512K / 17.9 GB	875	5
K2 Horizon 7B Uno Merged	512K / 18 GB	475	2
K2 Horizon 7B Heretic	512K / 18 GB	196	0
K2 Horizon 7B Uno OQ6e	512K / 7.5 GB	348	1
K2 Horizon 7B OQ6e	512K / 7.5 GB	352	2
BetterWright K2 Horizon 7B Uno	512K / 18 GB	168	1
K2 Horizon 7B 4bit	512K / 7.2 GB	295	1
K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit	512K / 5.1 GB	375	3
K2 Horizon 7B UnrealEngine	512K / 18.1 GB	203	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than IFM/K2-Horizon-7B-FP8.