What are the hardware requirements for Baichuan2 13B Chat?

Baichuan2 13B Chat 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 Chat and how large is it?

Baichuan2 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 Baichuan2 13B Chat?

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

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

Name: Baichuan2 13B Chat
Author: baichuan-inc

Baichuan2 13B Chat is an open-source language model by baichuan-inc. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 27.8GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Baichuan Custom code En Endpoints compatible Pytorch Region:us Sharded Zh

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

Baichuan2 13B Chat Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Supported Languages

Chinese (authoritative), English (authoritative)

Training Details

Data Volume:

2.6 trillion tokens

Release Notes

Version:

Date:

2023.12.29

Notes:

Enhanced comprehensive capabilities, especially in math, logic reasoning, and complex instruction following.

LLM Name	Baichuan2 13B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/baichuan-inc/Baichuan2-13B-Chat
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	27.8 GB
Updated	2026-06-27
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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Quantized Models of the Baichuan2 13B Chat

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Baichuan2 13B Chat GGUF	10	1379	5 GB
Baichuan2 13B Chat GPTQ	21	16	9 GB

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