What are the hardware requirements for Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B?

Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B requires approximately 16.1 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 Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B and how large is it?

Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B is developed by Nitral-AI, a model with 8b 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 Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B?

Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B by Nitral-AI — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B
Author: Nitral-AI

Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B is an open-source language model by Nitral-AI. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Nitral-AI/Hathor_Stable-v0.2-L3-8B

Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

The model was mentioned in relation to Bartowski <3: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Hathor-L3-8B-v.02-GGUF and https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Hathor-L3-8B-v.02-exl2.

Training Details

Data Sources:

private data, synthetic opus instructions, mix of light/classical novel data, roleplaying chat pairs

Data Volume:

3 epochs

Model Architecture:

llama 3 8B instruct

LLM Name	Hathor Stable V0.2 L3 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Nitral-AI/Hathor_Stable-v0.2-L3-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-05-26
Maintainer	Nitral-AI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.38.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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