What are the hardware requirements for Diogenes 12B?

Diogenes 12B requires approximately 24.5 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 Diogenes 12B and how large is it?

Diogenes 12B is developed by Nitral-Archive, a model with 12b 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 Diogenes 12B?

Diogenes 12B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Diogenes 12B by Nitral-Archive — VRAM 24.5GB, 128K context

Name: Diogenes 12B
Author: Nitral-Archive

Diogenes 12B is an open-source language model by Nitral-Archive. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 128K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Base model:finetune:mistralai/... Base model:mistralai/mistral-n... En Instruct Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Nitral-Archive/Diogenes-12B

Diogenes 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Diogenes 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Nitral-Archive/Diogenes-12B
Base Model(s)	Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	Nitral-Archive
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
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 4.9 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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