What are the hardware requirements for Codegen 6B Nl?

Codegen 6B Nl requires approximately 14.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Codegen 6B Nl and how large is it?

Codegen 6B Nl is developed by Salesforce, a model with 6b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Codegen 6B Nl perform on standard benchmarks?

Codegen 6B Nl has the following published scores: MMLU 25.93. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Codegen 6B Nl by Salesforce — VRAM 14.3GB

Name: Codegen 6B Nl
Author: Salesforce

Codegen 6B Nl is an open-source language model by Salesforce. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 14.3GB, License: bsd-3-clause, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.05, Arc: 42.3, HellaSwag: 68.6, MMLU: 25.9, GSM8K: 2.2.

Arxiv:2203.13474 Codegen Endpoints compatible Pytorch Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/codegen-6B-nl

Codegen 6B Nl Parameters and Internals

Model Type

autoregressive, language model

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

program synthesis

Limitations:

Best at generating executable code given English prompts

Training Details

Data Sources:

the Pile

Methodology:

Trained using cross-entropy loss for maximizing likelihood.

Hardware Used:

multiple TPU-v4-512

LLM Name	Codegen 6B Nl
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/codegen-6B-nl
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	14.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	Salesforce
Model Type	codegen
Model Files	14.3 GB
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	CodeGenForCausalLM
License	bsd-3-clause
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.21.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	51200
Torch Data Type	float16
Activation Function	gelu_new

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