What are the hardware requirements for ZEUS 8B V8?

ZEUS 8B V8 requires approximately 16.1 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 ZEUS 8B V8 and how large is it?

ZEUS 8B V8 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 ZEUS 8B V8?

ZEUS 8B V8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

ZEUS 8B V8 by T145 — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: ZEUS 8B V8
Author: T145

ZEUS 8B V8 is an open-source language model by T145. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.1, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Merged Model Arxiv:2306.01708 Arxiv:2311.03099 Base model:akjindal53244/llama... Base model:arcee-ai/llama-3.1-... Base model:sicariussicariistuf... Base model:unsloth/meta-llama-... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/T145/ZEUS-8B-V8

ZEUS 8B V8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	ZEUS 8B V8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/T145/ZEUS-8B-V8
Base Model(s)	LLAMA 3 8B Unaligned BETA arcee-ai/Llama-3.1-SuperNova-Lite unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct akjindal53244/Llama-3.1-Storm-8B SicariusSicariiStuff/LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned_BETA arcee-ai/Llama-3.1-SuperNova-Lite unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct akjindal53244/Llama-3.1-Storm-8B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	T145
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
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
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.1
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.47.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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