What are the hardware requirements for Via 1.5B Core?

Via 1.5B Core requires approximately 1.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Via 1.5B Core and how large is it?

Via 1.5B Core is developed by JESUSDAVID23, a model with 1.5b 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 Via 1.5B Core?

Via 1.5B Core is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Via 1.5B Core by JESUSDAVID23 — VRAM 1.4GB

Name: Via 1.5B Core
Author: JESUSDAVID23

Via 1.5B Core is an open-source language model by JESUSDAVID23. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 1.4GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Base model:finetune:jesusdavid... Base model:jesusdavid23/via-1.... Endpoints compatible Generated from trainer Gpt2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/JESUSDAVID23/via-1.5b-core

Via 1.5B Core Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Via 1.5B Core
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/JESUSDAVID23/via-1.5b-core
Base Model(s)	JESUSDAVID23/via-1.5b-core JESUSDAVID23/via-1.5b-core
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	1.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	JESUSDAVID23
Model Type	gpt2
Model Files	1.4 GB 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	GPT2LMHeadModel
Transformers Version	5.9.0
Vocabulary Size	50257
Activation Function	gelu_new

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