What are the hardware requirements for Astral 256K 7B V2?

Astral 256K 7B V2 requires approximately 14.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 250K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Astral 256K 7B V2 and how large is it?

Astral 256K 7B V2 is developed by adowu, 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 Astral 256K 7B V2?

Astral 256K 7B V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Astral 256K 7B V2 by adowu — VRAM 14.4GB, 250K context

Name: Astral 256K 7B V2
Author: adowu

Astral 256K 7B V2 is an open-source language model by adowu. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 14.4GB, Context: 250K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

256k Astral Conversational En Endpoints compatible Long Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/adowu/astral-256k-7b-v2

Astral 256K 7B V2 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Applications:

Content Generation, Conversational Systems, Complex Language Understanding Tasks

Supported Languages

en (proficient)

LLM Name	Astral 256K 7B V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/adowu/astral-256k-7b-v2
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	14.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	adowu
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 4.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	256000
Model Max Length	256000
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32002
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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