What are the hardware requirements for KRONOS 8B V9?

KRONOS 8B V9 requires approximately 16 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 KRONOS 8B V9 and how large is it?

KRONOS 8B V9 is developed by T145, 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 KRONOS 8B V9?

KRONOS 8B V9 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

KRONOS 8B V9 by T145 — VRAM 16GB, 128K context

Name: KRONOS 8B V9
Author: T145

KRONOS 8B V9 is an open-source language model by T145. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Merged Model Arxiv:2306.01708 Base model:t145/kronos-8b-v1-p... Base model:t145/kronos-8b-v8 Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/T145/KRONOS-8B-V9

KRONOS 8B V9 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	KRONOS 8B V9
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/T145/KRONOS-8B-V9
Base Model(s)	KRONOS 8B V8 KRONOS 8B V1 P1 T145/KRONOS-8B-V8 T145/KRONOS-8B-V1-P1
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	T145
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-5 3.9 GB: 2-of-5 3.9 GB: 3-of-5 3.9 GB: 4-of-5 0.3 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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