What are the hardware requirements for Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF?

Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF requires approximately 13.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF and how large is it?

Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 33b 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 Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF?

Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 13.5GB

Name: Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 33b LLM, VRAM: 13.5GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Base model:jondurbin/airoboros... Base model:quantized:jondurbin... Dataset:jondurbin/airoboros-2.... Gguf Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Airoboros-33B-2.1-GGUF

Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

Quantized by TheBloke. Original model in pytorch format for GPU inference and further conversions.

Training Details

Data Sources:

jondurbin/airoboros-2.1

Methodology:

Using synthetic data generated by airoboros with RP style instruction set including categories rp and gtkm.

Context Length:

4096

Input Output

Input Format:

A chat. USER: {prompt} ASSISTANT:

LLM Name	Airoboros 33B 2.1 GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Airoboros-33B-2.1-GGUF
Model Name	Airoboros 33B 2.1
Model Creator	Jon Durbin
Base Model(s)	jondurbin/airoboros-33b-2.1 jondurbin/airoboros-33b-2.1
Model Size	33b
Required VRAM	13.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	13.5 GB 17.3 GB 15.8 GB 14.1 GB 18.4 GB 19.6 GB 18.4 GB 22.4 GB 23.0 GB 22.4 GB 26.7 GB 34.6 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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