What are the hardware requirements for Lion 7B?

Lion 7B requires approximately 13.5 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 Lion 7B and how large is it?

Lion 7B is developed by YuxinJiang, a model with 7b 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 Lion 7B?

Lion 7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Lion 7B by YuxinJiang — VRAM 13.5GB, 2K context

Name: Lion 7B
Author: YuxinJiang

Lion 7B is an open-source language model by YuxinJiang. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 13.5GB, Context: 2K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.07.

Arxiv:2305.12870 Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/YuxinJiang/lion-7b

Lion 7B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

To comply with the LLaMA model license, Lion weights are released as delta weights.

LLM Name	Lion 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/YuxinJiang/lion-7b
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	13.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	YuxinJiang
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.5 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.29.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32001
Torch Data Type	float16

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Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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