What are the hardware requirements for Dusk Rainbow?

Dusk Rainbow requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 10K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Dusk Rainbow and how large is it?

Dusk Rainbow is developed by SicariusSicariiStuff, a model with 8b 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 Dusk Rainbow?

Dusk Rainbow is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Dusk Rainbow by SicariusSicariiStuff — VRAM 16.1GB, 10K context

Name: Dusk Rainbow
Author: SicariusSicariiStuff

Dusk Rainbow is an open-source language model by SicariusSicariiStuff. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 10K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

En Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/SicariusSicariiStuff/Dusk_Rainbow

Dusk Rainbow Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Text Generation, Creative Writing

Additional Notes

Designed for creating imaginative stories and handling creative writing tasks efficiently. Not influenced by biased or repetitive API models like ChatGPT or Claude.

Training Details

Data Sources:

Testing data for LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned's beta

Data Volume:

16M tokens

Methodology:

Finetuning based on unique data added for better adherence to instructions and story writing prompts. No use of API models, ChatGPT, or Claude.

Model Architecture:

Based on LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned.

LLM Name	Dusk Rainbow
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/SicariusSicariiStuff/Dusk_Rainbow
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	SicariusSicariiStuff
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	10240
Model Max Length	10240
Transformers Version	4.44.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128258
Torch Data Type	float16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
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Text Generation
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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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