What are the hardware requirements for Xgen Small 9B Base R?

Xgen Small 9B Base R requires approximately 42.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Xgen Small 9B Base R and how large is it?

Xgen Small 9B Base R is developed by Salesforce, a model with 9b 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 Xgen Small 9B Base R?

Xgen Small 9B Base R is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Xgen Small 9B Base R by Salesforce — VRAM 42.5GB, 256K context

Name: Xgen Small 9B Base R
Author: Salesforce

Xgen Small 9B Base R is an open-source language model by Salesforce. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 42.5GB, Context: 256K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Arxiv:2505.06496 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/xgen-small-9B-base-r

Xgen Small 9B Base R Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Xgen Small 9B Base R
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/xgen-small-9B-base-r
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	42.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-12
Maintainer	Salesforce
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-9 5.0 GB: 2-of-9 5.0 GB: 3-of-9 4.8 GB: 4-of-9 5.0 GB: 5-of-9 5.0 GB: 6-of-9 4.8 GB: 7-of-9 5.0 GB: 8-of-9 3.0 GB: 9-of-9
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	102400
Torch Data Type	float32

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