What are the hardware requirements for Bitnet 5B V1?

Bitnet 5B V1 requires approximately 9.2 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 Bitnet 5B V1 and how large is it?

Bitnet 5B V1 is developed by Ttimofeyka, a model with 3b 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 Bitnet 5B V1?

Bitnet 5B V1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bitnet 5B V1 by Ttimofeyka — VRAM 9.2GB, 2K context

Name: Bitnet 5B V1
Author: Ttimofeyka

Bitnet 5B V1 is an open-source language model by Ttimofeyka. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 9.2GB, Context: 2K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Base model:1bitllm/bitnet b1 5... Base model:finetune:1bitllm/bi... Bitnet Endpoints compatible Llama Merge Mergekit Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Ttimofeyka/bitnet-5B-v1

Bitnet 5B V1 Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

Redesigned mergekit to merge the bitnet 3B model, potentially compatible with quantization via llama.cpp.

LLM Name	Bitnet 5B V1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Ttimofeyka/bitnet-5B-v1
Base Model(s)	Bitnet B1 58 3B 1bitLLM/bitnet_b1_58-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	9.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	Ttimofeyka
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.2 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	BitnetForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Vocabulary Size	32002
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Bitnet B1 58 3B	2K / 13.3 GB	1338	264
Bitnet B1 58 3B Coder	2K / 6.6 GB	6	1
Bitnet B1 58 3B Quantized	2K / 1.1 GB	9	12
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