What are the hardware requirements for Bloom 7b1 Petals?

Bloom 7b1 Petals requires approximately 2.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Bloom 7b1 Petals and how large is it?

Bloom 7b1 Petals is developed by bigscience, a model with 1b 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 Bloom 7b1 Petals?

Bloom 7b1 Petals is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bloom 7b1 Petals by bigscience — VRAM 2.1GB

Name: Bloom 7b1 Petals
Author: bigscience

Bloom 7b1 Petals is an open-source language model by bigscience. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.1GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.05.

Bloom Endpoints compatible Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom-7b1-petals

Bloom 7b1 Petals Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

This model version is optimized to run using the Petals swarm and is provided for testing purposes. It might be more efficient to use the original local version.

Input Output

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	Bloom 7b1 Petals
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom-7b1-petals
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	bigscience
Model Type	bloom
Model Files	2.1 GB 2.1 GB
Model Architecture	BloomForCausalLM
Transformers Version	4.25.1
Tokenizer Class	BloomTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	250880
Torch Data Type	float16

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