What are the hardware requirements for MiniCPM5 Aether?

MiniCPM5 Aether requires approximately 5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniCPM5 Aether and how large is it?

MiniCPM5 Aether is developed by aemmeath, a model with 2b 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 MiniCPM5 Aether?

MiniCPM5 Aether is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniCPM5 Aether by aemmeath — VRAM 5GB, 128K context

Name: MiniCPM5 Aether
Author: aemmeath

MiniCPM5 Aether is an open-source language model by aemmeath. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 5GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Base model:finetune:openbmb/mi... Base model:openbmb/minicpm5-2b Conversational En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/aemmeath/MiniCPM5-Aether

MiniCPM5 Aether Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniCPM5 Aether
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/aemmeath/MiniCPM5-Aether
Base Model(s)	MiniCPM5 2B openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	5 GB
Updated	2026-09-18
Maintainer	aemmeath
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 0-of-1
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<unused_token_477>
Vocabulary Size	130560
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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MiniCPM5 2B Base	512K / 5 GB	54	17
MiniCPM5 2B	128K / 5 GB	2879	623
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Huihui MiniCPM5 2B Abliterated	128K / 5 GB	968	19
...iniCPM5 2B RotSVDMix Quantized	128K / 2 GB	1389	1
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than aemmeath/MiniCPM5-Aether.