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Nile Chat 12B by MBZUAI-Paris

By MBZUAI-Paris · 657 downloads

Nile Chat 12B is an open-source language model by MBZUAI-Paris. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 23.4GB, Context: 128K, License: gemma, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

  Arxiv:2308.16149   Arxiv:2507.04569   Arz Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-3-12b-...   Conversational Dataset:mbzuai-paris/egyptian-...   Endpoints compatible   Gemma3 text   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow

Nile Chat 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM NameNile Chat 12B
Repository πŸ€—https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI-Paris/Nile-Chat-12B 
Base Model(s)  Gemma 3 12B Pt   google/gemma-3-12b-pt
Model Size12b
Required VRAM23.4 GB
Updated2026-07-24
MaintainerMBZUAI-Paris
Model Typegemma3_text
Model Files  4.9 GB: 1-of-5   4.9 GB: 2-of-5   4.9 GB: 3-of-5   4.9 GB: 4-of-5   3.8 GB: 5-of-5
Model ArchitectureGemma3ForCausalLM
Licensegemma
Context Length131072
Model Max Length131072
Transformers Version4.51.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassGemmaTokenizer
Padding Token<pad>
Vocabulary Size262208
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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