What are the hardware requirements for Nous 1 4B?

Nous 1 4B requires approximately 8.1 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 Nous 1 4B and how large is it?

Nous 1 4B is developed by apexion-ai, 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 Nous 1 4B?

Nous 1 4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nous 1 4B by apexion-ai — VRAM 8.1GB, 128K context

Name: Nous 1 4B
Author: apexion-ai

Nous 1 4B is an open-source language model by apexion-ai. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, Context: 128K, License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NoemaResearch/Nous-1-4B

Nous 1 4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nous 1 4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NoemaResearch/Nous-1-4B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-4B Qwen/Qwen3-4B
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2025-08-29
Maintainer	apexion-ai
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.1 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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