What are the hardware requirements for MAI UI 8B?

MAI UI 8B requires approximately 17.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MAI UI 8B and how large is it?

MAI UI 8B is developed by Tongyi-MAI, a model with 8b 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 MAI UI 8B?

MAI UI 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MAI UI 8B by Tongyi-MAI — VRAM 17.6GB

Name: MAI UI 8B
Author: Tongyi-MAI

MAI UI 8B is an open-source language model by Tongyi-MAI. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Arxiv:2512.22047 Conversational Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Qwen3 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/MAI-UI-8B

MAI UI 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MAI UI 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/MAI-UI-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	Tongyi-MAI
Model Type	qwen3_vl
Model Files	4.7 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.9 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Tongyi-MAI/MAI-UI-8B.