What are the hardware requirements for Aether 12B?

Aether 12B requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1000K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Aether 12B and how large is it?

Aether 12B is developed by aixonlab, a model with 12b 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 Aether 12B?

Aether 12B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Aether 12B by aixonlab — VRAM 24.5GB, 1000K context

Name: Aether 12B
Author: aixonlab

Aether 12B is an open-source language model by aixonlab. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 1000K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:finetune:xclbr7/arc... Base model:xclbr7/arcanum-12b En Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/aixonlab/Aether-12b

Aether 12B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Causal Language Model

Use Cases

Areas:

assistant, specific role bot

Supported Languages

en (primary)

Training Details

Data Sources:

theprint/CleverBoi-Data-20k

Methodology:

TRL SFTTrainer with AdamW optimizer, cosine decay LR scheduler, bfloat16 precision

Model Architecture:

Transformer-based language model

Responsible Ai Considerations

Accountability:

Users should be aware of potential biases in generated content and use the model responsibly.

LLM Name	Aether 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/aixonlab/Aether-12b
Base Model(s)	Arcanum 12B Xclbr7/Arcanum-12b
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-20
Maintainer	aixonlab
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.9 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	1024000
Model Max Length	1024000
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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