What are the hardware requirements for Pleias 1.2B Preview?

Pleias 1.2B Preview requires approximately 2.4 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 Pleias 1.2B Preview and how large is it?

Pleias 1.2B Preview is developed by PleIAs, a model with 1.2b 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 Pleias 1.2B Preview?

Pleias 1.2B Preview is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Pleias 1.2B Preview by PleIAs — VRAM 2.4GB, 2K context

Name: Pleias 1.2B Preview
Author: PleIAs

Pleias 1.2B Preview is an open-source language model by PleIAs. Features: 1.2b LLM, VRAM: 2.4GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Dataset:pleias/common corpus De En Es Fr It La Llama Nl Pl Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/PleIAs/Pleias-1.2b-Preview

Pleias 1.2B Preview Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Pleias 1.2B Preview
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/PleIAs/Pleias-1.2b-Preview
Model Size	1.2b
Required VRAM	2.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	PleIAs
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.4 GB
Supported Languages	en fr es de it la nl pl
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.46.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	65536
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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