What are the hardware requirements for ColdBrew Aphid?

ColdBrew Aphid requires approximately 7.2 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 ColdBrew Aphid and how large is it?

ColdBrew Aphid is developed by SvalTek, a model with 3.6b 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 ColdBrew Aphid?

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

ColdBrew Aphid by SvalTek — VRAM 7.2GB, 128K context

Name: ColdBrew Aphid
Author: SvalTek

ColdBrew Aphid is an open-source language model by SvalTek. Features: 3.6b LLM, VRAM: 7.2GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Base model:finetune:svaltek/co... Base model:svaltek/coldbrew-ap... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/SvalTek/ColdBrew-Aphid

ColdBrew Aphid Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	ColdBrew Aphid
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/SvalTek/ColdBrew-Aphid
Base Model(s)	ColdBrew Aphid SvalTek/ColdBrew-Aphid
Model Size	3.6b
Required VRAM	7.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-15
Maintainer	SvalTek
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128259
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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