What are the hardware requirements for Yi 9B GGUF?

Yi 9B GGUF requires approximately 3.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi 9B GGUF and how large is it?

Yi 9B GGUF is developed by MaziyarPanahi, a model with 9b 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 9B GGUF?

Yi 9B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 9B GGUF by MaziyarPanahi — VRAM 3.4GB

Name: Yi 9B GGUF
Author: MaziyarPanahi

Yi 9B GGUF is an open-source language model by MaziyarPanahi. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 3.4GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:2311.16502 Arxiv:2401.11944 2-bit 3-bit 4-bit 5-bit 6-bit 8-bit Autotrain compatible Base model:01-ai/yi-9b Base model:quantized:01-ai/yi-... Endpoints compatible Gguf Has space Llama Mistral Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Yi-9B-GGUF

Yi 9B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

LLM Name	Yi 9B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Yi-9B-GGUF
Model Name	Yi-9B-GGUF
Model Creator	01-ai
Base Model(s)	Yi 9B 01-ai/Yi-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	3.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-15
Maintainer	MaziyarPanahi
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.8 GB 3.4 GB 4.7 GB 4.3 GB 3.9 GB 5.3 GB 5.1 GB 6.3 GB 6.1 GB 7.2 GB 9.4 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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