What are the hardware requirements for Quark 50M V2?

Quark 50M V2 requires approximately 0.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Quark 50M V2 and how large is it?

Quark 50M V2 is developed by ThingAI, a model with 50m 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 Quark 50M V2?

Quark 50M V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Quark 50M V2 by ThingAI — VRAM 0.1GB, 2K context

Name: Quark 50M V2
Author: ThingAI

Quark 50M V2 is an open-source language model by ThingAI. Features: 50m LLM, VRAM: 0.1GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

50m Chatml Conversational En Gqa Instruct It Italian Llama Pytorch Region:us Rmsnorm Safetensors Small-language-model Smol Swiglu Trained-from-scratch

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ThingAI/Quark-50m-v2

Quark 50M V2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Quark 50M V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ThingAI/Quark-50m-v2
Model Size	50m
Required VRAM	0.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	ThingAI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	0.1 GB 0.2 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en code
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	5.6.2
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Errors	replace

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Nyun C2 Llama3 50B	8K / 100.8 GB	8	11
Supra Router 51M	5K / 0.1 GB	2299	129
Supra 1.5 50M Instruct Exp	5K / 0.1 GB	2307	49
Supra1.5 50M Instruct Exp	5K / 0.1 GB	2023	49
Supra 1.5 50M Base Exp	5K / 0.2 GB	1738	18
Supra Title 50M Pre	5K / 0.1 GB	248	8
Tashkeel 50M	2K / 0.1 GB	249	1
50M 2048 Emhotob	2K / 0.2 GB	741	3
Quark 50M Instruct	2K / 0.1 GB	946	2
Quark 50M	2K / 0.1 GB	203	5

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ThingAI/Quark-50m-v2.