What are the hardware requirements for Baichuan2 13B Base?

Baichuan2 13B Base requires approximately 27.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Baichuan2 13B Base and how large is it?

Baichuan2 13B Base 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 Baichuan2 13B Base?

Baichuan2 13B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Baichuan2 13B Base by baichuan-inc — VRAM 27.8GB

Name: Baichuan2 13B Base
Author: baichuan-inc

Baichuan2 13B Base is an open-source language model by baichuan-inc. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 27.8GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/baichuan-inc/Baichuan2-13B-Base

Baichuan2 13B Base Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

Research, Commercial applications

Considerations:

Ensure compliance with principles and legal requirements

Supported Languages

English (high), Chinese (high)

Training Details

Data Sources:

High-quality corpus with 2.6 trillion tokens

Data Volume:

2.6 trillion tokens

Input Output

Accepted Modalities:

text

LLM Name	Baichuan2 13B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/baichuan-inc/Baichuan2-13B-Base
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	27.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-06
Maintainer	baichuan-inc
Model Type	baichuan
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 7.9 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	BaichuanForCausalLM
License	other
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	125696
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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