What are the hardware requirements for Llama3.2 1B Thinking?

Llama3.2 1B Thinking requires approximately 2.5 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 Llama3.2 1B Thinking and how large is it?

Llama3.2 1B Thinking is developed by PursuitOfDataScience, 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 Llama3.2 1B Thinking?

Llama3.2 1B Thinking is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama3.2 1B Thinking by PursuitOfDataScience — VRAM 2.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama3.2 1B Thinking
Author: PursuitOfDataScience

Llama3.2 1B Thinking is an open-source language model by PursuitOfDataScience. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.5GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/PursuitOfDataScience/llama3.2-1b-thinking

Llama3.2 1B Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama3.2 1B Thinking
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/PursuitOfDataScience/llama3.2-1b-thinking
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	PursuitOfDataScience
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.5 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256

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