What are the hardware requirements for Blip2 Opt 2.7B?

Blip2 Opt 2.7B requires approximately 15 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Blip2 Opt 2.7B and how large is it?

Blip2 Opt 2.7B is developed by Salesforce, a model with 2.7b 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 Blip2 Opt 2.7B?

Blip2 Opt 2.7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Blip2 Opt 2.7B by Salesforce — VRAM 15GB

Name: Blip2 Opt 2.7B
Author: Salesforce

Blip2 Opt 2.7B is an open-source language model by Salesforce. Features: 2.7b LLM, VRAM: 15GB, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Arxiv:2301.12597 Blip-2 En Endpoints compatible Image-captioning Image-text-to-text Image-to-text Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vision Visual-question-answering

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b

Blip2 Opt 2.7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Blip2 Opt 2.7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b
Model Size	2.7b
Required VRAM	15 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Salesforce
Model Type	blip-2
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 5.0 GB: 2-of-2 10.0 GB: 1-of-2 5.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Blip2ForConditionalGeneration
License	mit
Transformers Version	4.47.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	float32
Errors	replace

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