What are the hardware requirements for Bwen 8B Stage1?

Bwen 8B Stage1 requires approximately 33.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Bwen 8B Stage1 and how large is it?

Bwen 8B Stage1 is developed by allenai, 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 Bwen 8B Stage1?

Bwen 8B Stage1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bwen 8B Stage1 by allenai — VRAM 33.2GB, 32K context

Name: Bwen 8B Stage1
Author: allenai

Bwen 8B Stage1 is an open-source language model by allenai. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 33.2GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2512.15586 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-8b-base Bolmo Custom code Dataset:allenai/bolmo mix En Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/allenai/Bwen-8B-Stage1

Bwen 8B Stage1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Bwen 8B Stage1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/allenai/Bwen-8B-Stage1
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 8B Base Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	33.2 GB
Updated	2026-10-10
Maintainer	allenai
Model Type	bolmo
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-7 4.9 GB: 2-of-7 5.0 GB: 3-of-7 4.8 GB: 4-of-7 4.8 GB: 5-of-7 5.0 GB: 6-of-7 3.7 GB: 7-of-7
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	BolmoForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Tokenizer Class	BolmoTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	520

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Best Alternatives to Bwen 8B Stage1

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Bwen 8B	32K / 33.2 GB	68	2
Llama 3 Blama 8B	8K / 33 GB	57	1
Llama 3 Blama 8B Stage1	8K / 33 GB	46	0

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