What are the hardware requirements for NorLlama 3B?

NorLlama 3B requires approximately 6.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed NorLlama 3B and how large is it?

NorLlama 3B is developed by NorGLM, a model with 3b 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 NorLlama 3B?

NorLlama 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

NorLlama 3B by NorGLM — VRAM 6.1GB, 2K context

Name: NorLlama 3B
Author: NorGLM

NorLlama 3B is an open-source language model by NorGLM. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.1GB, Context: 2K, License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Arxiv:2601.03034 Endpoints compatible Llama No Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NorGLM/NorLlama-3B

NorLlama 3B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Generative Pretrained Transformer

Use Cases

Areas:

Academic research, Non-commercial projects

Limitations:

Not suitable for commercial applications

Supported Languages

Norwegian (high proficiency), Danish (medium proficiency), Swedish (medium proficiency), German (medium proficiency), English (medium proficiency)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Unknown source language datasets

Data Volume:

200GB, nearly 25B tokens

Methodology:

Pre-training

Model Architecture:

Llama

Input Output

Input Format:

Text input

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

Text generation

LLM Name	NorLlama 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NorGLM/NorLlama-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	NorGLM
Model Type	llama
Model Files	6.1 GB 6.1 GB
Supported Languages	no
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.29.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	50000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Text Generation
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