What are the hardware requirements for Yi 34B GGUF?

Yi 34B GGUF requires approximately 14.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi 34B GGUF and how large is it?

Yi 34B GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 34b 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 Yi 34B GGUF?

Yi 34B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 34B GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 14.6GB

Name: Yi 34B GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Yi 34B GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 34b LLM, VRAM: 14.6GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Base model:01-ai/yi-34b Base model:quantized:01-ai/yi-... Gguf Quantized Region:us Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Yi-34B-GGUF

Yi 34B GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Additional Notes

The Yi series models are large language models trained from scratch by 01.AI developers for optimal performance in bilingual tasks.

Supported Languages

English (bilingual), Chinese (bilingual)

Input Output

Input Format:

Human: {prompt} Assistant:

LLM Name	Yi 34B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Yi-34B-GGUF
Model Name	Yi 34B
Model Creator	01-ai
Base Model(s)	Yi 34B 01-ai/Yi-34B
Model Size	34b
Required VRAM	14.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	yi
Model Files	14.6 GB 18.1 GB 16.6 GB 15.0 GB 19.5 GB 20.7 GB 19.5 GB 23.7 GB 24.3 GB 23.7 GB 28.2 GB 36.5 GB
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	other

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