What are the hardware requirements for TelecomGPT R1?

TelecomGPT R1 requires approximately 54.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed TelecomGPT R1 and how large is it?

TelecomGPT R1 is developed by KU-DFI, a model with 27.4b 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 TelecomGPT R1?

TelecomGPT R1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

TelecomGPT R1 by KU-DFI — VRAM 54.7GB, 16K context

Name: TelecomGPT R1
Author: KU-DFI

TelecomGPT R1 is an open-source language model by KU-DFI. Features: 27.4b LLM, VRAM: 54.7GB, Context: 16K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Arxiv:2601.13157 Arxiv:2602.14833 Arxiv:2604.06882 Arxiv:2605.04676 Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/KU-DFI/TelecomGPT-R1

TelecomGPT R1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	TelecomGPT R1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/KU-DFI/TelecomGPT-R1
Model Size	27.4b
Required VRAM	54.7 GB
Updated	2026-09-13
Maintainer	KU-DFI
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	49.9 GB: 1-of-2 4.8 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	5.3.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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