What are the hardware requirements for Nile Chat 4B?

Nile Chat 4B requires approximately 7.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nile Chat 4B and how large is it?

Nile Chat 4B is developed by MBZUAI-Paris, a model with 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 Nile Chat 4B?

Nile Chat 4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nile Chat 4B by MBZUAI-Paris — VRAM 7.8GB, 128K context

Name: Nile Chat 4B
Author: MBZUAI-Paris

Nile Chat 4B is an open-source language model by MBZUAI-Paris. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 7.8GB, 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-3-4b-p... Conversational Dataset:mbzuai-paris/egyptian-... Endpoints compatible Gemma3 text Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI-Paris/Nile-Chat-4B

Nile Chat 4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nile Chat 4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI-Paris/Nile-Chat-4B
Base Model(s)	Gemma 3 4B Pt google/gemma-3-4b-pt
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	7.8 GB
Updated	2026-06-29
Maintainer	MBZUAI-Paris
Model Type	gemma3_text
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.8 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Gemma3ForCausalLM
License	gemma
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.51.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262208
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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