What are the hardware requirements for Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin?

Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin requires approximately 12.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 195K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin and how large is it?

Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin is developed by LoneStriker, a model with 6b 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 Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin?

Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin by LoneStriker — VRAM 12.1GB, 195K context

Name: Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin
Author: LoneStriker

Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin is an open-source language model by LoneStriker. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 12.1GB, Context: 195K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Custom code Pytorch Region:us Sharded Tensorflow Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/Yi-6B-200K-Airo-Claude-Puffin

Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Large Language Model

Supported Languages

English (Bilingual), Chinese (Bilingual)

Release Notes

Version:

Yi-6B-200K

Date:

2023/11/06

Notes:

Base model release with 200K context length

Version:

Yi-6B

Date:

2023/11/02

Notes:

Base model release

LLM Name	Yi 6B 200K Airo Claude Puffin
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/Yi-6B-200K-Airo-Claude-Puffin
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	12.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	LoneStriker
Model Type	Yi
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 9.9 GB: 1-of-2 2.2 GB: 2-of-2 2.2 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	YiForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	200000
Model Max Length	200000
Transformers Version	4.34.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	64002
Torch Data Type	float16

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