What are the hardware requirements for Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF?

Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF requires approximately 8.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF and how large is it?

Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 20b 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 Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF?

Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 8.3GB

Name: Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 20b LLM, VRAM: 8.3GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Base model:ddh0/norocetacean-2... Base model:quantized:ddh0/noro... Gguf Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Norocetacean-20B-10k-GGUF

Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

llama

Additional Notes

Merged to create a model with the unique brain of Psyonic-Cetacean and the human voice of the no_robots dataset, supporting long contexts.

Training Details

Methodology:

Merged Jeb Carter's Psyonic-Cetacean-20B with Undi's no_robots-alpaca LoRA and extended to 10240 context length via YaRN.

Context Length:

10240

Model Architecture:

Original model is Llama 2

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	Norocetacean 20B 10K GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Norocetacean-20B-10k-GGUF
Model Name	Norocetacean 20B 10K
Model Creator	ddh0
Base Model(s)	Norocetacean 20B 10K ddh0/Norocetacean-20b-10k
Model Size	20b
Required VRAM	8.3 GB
Updated	2026-06-29
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	8.3 GB 10.6 GB 9.7 GB 8.7 GB 11.3 GB 12.0 GB 11.3 GB 13.8 GB 14.2 GB 13.8 GB 16.4 GB 21.2 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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