What are the hardware requirements for TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2 requires approximately 4.4 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 TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2 and how large is it?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2 is developed by TinyLlama, a model with 503b 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 TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2?

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2 by TinyLlama — VRAM 4.4GB, 2K context

Name: TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2
Author: TinyLlama

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2 is an open-source language model by TinyLlama. Features: 503b LLM, VRAM: 4.4GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Dataset:bigcode/starcoderdata Dataset:cerebras/slimpajama-62... Dataset:openassistant/oasst to... En Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.2

TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Areas:

open-source projects

Limitations:

restricted computation and memory footprint

Additional Notes

Can be used with transformers library.

Supported Languages

en (Proficient)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Cerebras/SlimPajama-627B, bigcode/starcoderdata, OpenAssistant/oasst_top1_2023-08-25

Data Volume:

3 trillion tokens

Training Time:

90 days

Hardware Used:

16 A100-40G GPUs

Model Architecture:

Same architecture and tokenizer as Llama 2

Input Output

Input Format:

ChatML formatted conversations

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

generated text

Release Notes

Version:

v0.2

Notes:

Update from V0.1: Different dataset and different chat format (ChatML)

LLM Name	TinyLlama 1.1B Chat V0.2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.2
Model Size	503b
Required VRAM	4.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	TinyLlama
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.4 GB 4.4 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.33.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32003
Torch Data Type	float32

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