What are the hardware requirements for Llama SEA LION V3 8B?

Llama SEA LION V3 8B requires approximately 16.1 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 Llama SEA LION V3 8B and how large is it?

Llama SEA LION V3 8B is developed by aisingapore, a model with 8b 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 Llama SEA LION V3 8B?

Llama SEA LION V3 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama SEA LION V3 8B by aisingapore — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Llama SEA LION V3 8B
Author: aisingapore

Llama SEA LION V3 8B is an open-source language model by aisingapore. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.1, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/aisingapore/Llama-SEA-LION-v3-8B

Llama SEA LION V3 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama SEA LION V3 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/aisingapore/Llama-SEA-LION-v3-8B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	aisingapore
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en zh vi id th ta ms km lo my
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.1
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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