What are the hardware requirements for Llama 1B Fresh?

Llama 1B Fresh requires approximately 4.4 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 Llama 1B Fresh and how large is it?

Llama 1B Fresh is developed by PrimeIntellect, a model with 1b 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 Llama 1B Fresh?

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

Llama 1B Fresh by PrimeIntellect — VRAM 4.4GB, 2K context

Name: Llama 1B Fresh
Author: PrimeIntellect

Llama 1B Fresh is an open-source language model by PrimeIntellect. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 4.4GB, Context: 2K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/PrimeIntellect/llama-1b-fresh

Llama 1B Fresh Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 1B Fresh
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/PrimeIntellect/llama-1b-fresh
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	4.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	PrimeIntellect
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.4 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

Rank the Llama 1B Fresh capabilities

Have you tried this model? Rate its performance — this feedback helps the ML community find the right model for their needs.

Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Llama 1B Fresh

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
ISA 02 Nano Llama 3.2 1B	1024K / 2.5 GB	47	3
LWM Text 1M	1024K / 13.5 GB	1149	29
LWM Text Chat 1M	1024K / 13.5 GB	57	173
JOSIE 1M Base	1024K / 13.5 GB	12	1
JOSIE 1M Base	1024K / 13.5 GB	6	1
MiniCPM5 1B MegaMerge Final	512K / 2.2 GB	0	1
MiniCPM5 1B	128K / 2.2 GB	354385	868
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	128K / 2.5 GB	212072	100
...1B Claude Opus Fable5 Thinking	128K / 2.2 GB	6165	166
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	128K / 2.5 GB	10114634	1549

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than PrimeIntellect/llama-1b-fresh.