What are the hardware requirements for Llama2 13B ShiningValiant?

Llama2 13B ShiningValiant requires approximately 52.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama2 13B ShiningValiant and how large is it?

Llama2 13B ShiningValiant is developed by ValiantLabs, a model with 13b 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 Llama2 13B ShiningValiant?

Llama2 13B ShiningValiant is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama2 13B ShiningValiant by ValiantLabs — VRAM 52.3GB, 4K context

Name: Llama2 13B ShiningValiant
Author: ValiantLabs

Llama2 13B ShiningValiant is an open-source language model by ValiantLabs. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 52.3GB, Context: 4K, License: llama2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

13b En Endpoints compatible Llama Llama-2-chat Llama2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Shining-valiant Tensorflow Valiant Valiant-labs

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ValiantLabs/Llama2-13B-ShiningValiant

Llama2 13B ShiningValiant Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama2 13B ShiningValiant
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ValiantLabs/Llama2-13B-ShiningValiant
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	52.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-13
Maintainer	ValiantLabs
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-11 5.0 GB: 2-of-11 5.0 GB: 3-of-11 5.0 GB: 4-of-11 5.0 GB: 5-of-11 4.8 GB: 6-of-11 4.8 GB: 7-of-11 4.8 GB: 8-of-11 5.0 GB: 9-of-11 5.0 GB: 10-of-11 3.0 GB: 11-of-11
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.36.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

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