What are the hardware requirements for Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2?

Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2 requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2 and how large is it?

Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2 is developed by LoneStriker, a model with 72b 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 Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2?

Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2 by LoneStriker — VRAM 24.5GB, 32K context

Name: Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2
Author: LoneStriker

Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2 is an open-source language model by LoneStriker. Features: 72b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Base model:finetune:moreh/momo... Base model:moreh/momo-72b-lora... Endpoints compatible Exl2 Llama Lora Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/Smaug-72B-v0.1-2.4bpw-h6-exl2

Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Training Details

Methodology:

Finetuned from moreh/MoMo-72B-lora-1.8.7-DPO, based on Qwen-72B with new datasets and a new approach.

LLM Name	Smaug 72B V0.1 2.4bpw H6 EXL2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/Smaug-72B-v0.1-2.4bpw-h6-exl2
Base Model(s)	moreh/MoMo-72B-lora-1.8.7-DPO moreh/MoMo-72B-lora-1.8.7-DPO
Model Size	72b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	LoneStriker
Model Type	llama
Model Files	8.6 GB: 1-of-3 8.6 GB: 2-of-3 7.3 GB: 3-of-3
Quantization Type	exl2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.36.2
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	152064
LoRA Model	Yes
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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