What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Blama 8B?

Llama 3 Blama 8B requires approximately 33 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 Blama 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Blama 8B 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 Llama 3 Blama 8B?

Llama 3 Blama 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 Blama 8B by allenai — VRAM 33GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Blama 8B
Author: allenai

Llama 3 Blama 8B is an open-source language model by allenai. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 33GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2512.15586 Base model:allenai/llama-3-bla... Base model:finetune:allenai/ll... Bolmo Custom code Dataset:allenai/bolmo mix En Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3-Blama-8B

Llama 3 Blama 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3 Blama 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3-Blama-8B
Base Model(s)	allenai/Llama-B-8B-Stage1 allenai/Llama-B-8B-Stage1
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	33 GB
Updated	2026-10-11
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 5.0 GB: 5-of-7 5.0 GB: 6-of-7 3.3 GB: 7-of-7
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	BolmoForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Tokenizer Class	BolmoTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	520

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Best Alternatives to Llama 3 Blama 8B

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Bwen 8B	32K / 33.2 GB	68	2
Bwen 8B Stage1	32K / 33.2 GB	42	2
Llama 3 Blama 8B Stage1	8K / 33 GB	46	0

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