What are the hardware requirements for Nemo 12B OldSpice?

Nemo 12B OldSpice requires approximately 24.5 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 Nemo 12B OldSpice and how large is it?

Nemo 12B OldSpice is developed by SvalTek, a model with 12b 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 Nemo 12B OldSpice?

Nemo 12B OldSpice is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nemo 12B OldSpice by SvalTek — VRAM 24.5GB, 128K context

Name: Nemo 12B OldSpice
Author: SvalTek

Nemo 12B OldSpice is an open-source language model by SvalTek. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Merged Model Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/SvalTek/Nemo-12B-OldSpice

Nemo 12B OldSpice Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nemo 12B OldSpice
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/SvalTek/Nemo-12B-OldSpice
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-12
Maintainer	SvalTek
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.9 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.55.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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