What are the hardware requirements for Muse 1B?

Muse 1B requires approximately 2.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Muse 1B and how large is it?

Muse 1B is developed by Muse-research, a model with 1b 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 Muse 1B?

Muse 1B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Muse 1B by Muse-research — VRAM 2.1GB, 8K context

Name: Muse 1B
Rating: 2.5 (8 reviews)
Author: Muse-research

Muse 1B is an open-source language model by Muse-research. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.1GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Muse-research/Muse-1B

Muse 1B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Muse 1B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Muse-research/Muse-1B
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-08
Maintainer	Muse-research
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.1 GB
Supported Languages	en de fr it es pt
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	5.8.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Errors	replace

Rank the Muse 1B capabilities

Have you tried this model? Rate its performance — this feedback helps the ML community find the right model for their needs.

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

Best Alternatives to Muse 1B

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ISA 02 Nano Llama 3.2 1B	1024K / 2.5 GB	47	3
LWM Text 1M	1024K / 13.5 GB	1149	29
LWM Text Chat 1M	1024K / 13.5 GB	57	173
JOSIE 1M Base	1024K / 13.5 GB	12	1
JOSIE 1M Base	1024K / 13.5 GB	6	1
MiniCPM5 1B MegaMerge Final	512K / 2.2 GB	0	1
MiniCPM5 1B	128K / 2.2 GB	354385	868
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	128K / 2.5 GB	212072	100
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	128K / 2.5 GB	10114634	1549
...1B Claude Opus Fable5 Thinking	128K / 2.2 GB	6165	166

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Muse-research/Muse-1B.