What are the hardware requirements for Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ?

Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ requires approximately 54.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ and how large is it?

Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 103b 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 Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ?

Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 54.4GB, 4K context

Name: Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ
Author: TheBloke

Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 103b LLM, VRAM: 54.4GB, Context: 4K, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Arxiv:2307.11760 4-bit Awq Base model:quantized:sophosymp... Base model:sophosympatheia/aur... En Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aurora-Nights-103B-v1.0-AWQ

Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

roleplaying, storytelling

Input Output

Input Format:

{system_message} <|user|> {prompt} <|assistant|>

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

Performance Tips:

The model responds to prompting and performs better with the new Min-P sampler method, high temperatures with Min-P, and a frequency penalty set to 0.01.

LLM Name	Aurora Nights 103B V1.0 AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aurora-Nights-103B-v1.0-AWQ
Model Name	Aurora Nights 103B v1.0
Model Creator	Sophosympatheia
Base Model(s)	sophosympatheia/Aurora-Nights-103B-v1.0 sophosympatheia/Aurora-Nights-103B-v1.0
Model Size	103b
Required VRAM	54.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-6 9.9 GB: 2-of-6 9.9 GB: 3-of-6 10.0 GB: 4-of-6 9.9 GB: 5-of-6 4.8 GB: 6-of-6
Supported Languages	en
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.37.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/Aurora-Nights-103B-v1.0-AWQ.