What are the hardware requirements for Baichuan 13B Chat?

Baichuan 13B Chat requires approximately 26.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Baichuan 13B Chat and how large is it?

Baichuan 13B Chat is developed by baichuan-inc, a model with 13b 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 Baichuan 13B Chat?

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Baichuan 13B Chat by baichuan-inc — VRAM 26.5GB

Name: Baichuan 13B Chat
Author: baichuan-inc

Baichuan 13B Chat is an open-source language model by baichuan-inc. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 26.5GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Arxiv:2009.03300 Arxiv:2104.09864 Arxiv:2108.12409 Baichuan Custom code En Endpoints compatible Pytorch Region:us Sharded Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/baichuan-inc/Baichuan-13B-Chat

Baichuan 13B Chat Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Considerations:

Commercial use must be authorized.

Supported Languages

Chinese (high), English (high)

Training Details

Data Sources:

high-quality corpora

Data Volume:

1.4 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Uses ALiBi position encoding

Context Length:

4096

Model Architecture:

Based on Baichuan-7B

Safety Evaluation

Ethical Considerations:

Users must ensure technology is developed in a regulated and legal environment.

Input Output

Input Format:

textual prompts

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

Performance Tips:

Supports INT8 and INT4 quantization for efficient inference.

LLM Name	Baichuan 13B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/baichuan-inc/Baichuan-13B-Chat
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	26.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	baichuan-inc
Model Type	baichuan
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 6.6 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	zh en
Model Architecture	BaichuanForCausalLM
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.29.2
Tokenizer Class	BaichuanTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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