What are the hardware requirements for Boris 250M Instruct?

Boris 250M Instruct requires approximately 1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Boris 250M Instruct and how large is it?

Boris 250M Instruct is developed by KSP-NMAI, a model with 250m 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 Boris 250M Instruct?

Boris 250M Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Boris 250M Instruct by KSP-NMAI — VRAM 1GB

Name: Boris 250M Instruct
Author: KSP-NMAI

Boris 250M Instruct is an open-source language model by KSP-NMAI. Features: 250m LLM, VRAM: 1GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/KSP-NMAI/Boris-250M-Instruct

Boris 250M Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Boris 250M Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/KSP-NMAI/Boris-250M-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Boris 250M KSP-NMAI/Boris-250M
Model Size	250m
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	KSP-NMAI
Model Type	gpt2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	GPT2LMHeadModel
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.13.1
Tokenizer Class	GPTNeoXTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|padding\|>
Vocabulary Size	50304
Activation Function	gelu
Errors	replace

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