What are the hardware requirements for 13B Thorns L2 GGUF?

13B Thorns L2 GGUF requires approximately 5.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed 13B Thorns L2 GGUF and how large is it?

13B Thorns L2 GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 13b 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 13B Thorns L2 GGUF?

13B Thorns L2 GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

13B Thorns L2 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 5.4GB

Name: 13B Thorns L2 GGUF
Author: TheBloke

13B Thorns L2 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Alpaca Base model:calderaai/13b-thorn... Base model:quantized:calderaai... Cot Gguf Llama Merge Mix Quantized Region:us Uncensored Vicuna

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/13B-Thorns-L2-GGUF

13B Thorns L2 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Use Cases

Limitations:

warning on potential to generate offensive content, may generate misleading content

Additional Notes

Thorns' design is based on the concept of purposed segmentation using Spherical Linear Interpolation merging method for a coherent fusion of different models.

Input Output

Input Format:

Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: {prompt} ### Response:

LLM Name	13B Thorns L2 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/13B-Thorns-L2-GGUF
Model Name	13B Thorns L2
Model Creator	CalderaAI
Base Model(s)	13B Thorns L2 CalderaAI/13B-Thorns-l2
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.4 GB 6.9 GB 6.3 GB 5.7 GB 7.4 GB 7.9 GB 7.4 GB 9.0 GB 9.2 GB 9.0 GB 10.7 GB 13.8 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	llama2

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