What are the hardware requirements for Pico 165M?

Pico 165M requires approximately 0.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Pico 165M and how large is it?

Pico 165M is developed by fausap, a model with 165m 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 Pico 165M?

Pico 165M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Pico 165M by fausap — VRAM 0.7GB

Name: Pico 165M
Author: fausap

Pico 165M is an open-source language model by fausap. Features: 165m LLM, VRAM: 0.7GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/fausap/pico-165m

Pico 165M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Pico 165M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/fausap/pico-165m
Model Size	165m
Required VRAM	0.7 GB
Updated	2026-10-19
Maintainer	fausap
Model Files	0.7 GB 0.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
License	apache-2.0

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Text Generation
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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation