What are the hardware requirements for WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1?

WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1 requires approximately 51.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1 and how large is it?

WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1 is developed by hiwaifu-research, a model with 26b 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 WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1?

WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1 by hiwaifu-research — VRAM 51.6GB

Name: WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1
Author: hiwaifu-research

WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1 is an open-source language model by hiwaifu-research. Features: 26b LLM, VRAM: 51.6GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.38.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/hiwaifu-research/WaifuGemma4-26b-a4b-v1

WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	WaifuGemma4 26B A4b V1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/hiwaifu-research/WaifuGemma4-26b-a4b-v1
Base Model(s)	Gemma 4 26B A4B It google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it
Model Size	26b
Required VRAM	51.6 GB
Updated	2026-09-20
Maintainer	hiwaifu-research
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	4.7 GB: 1-of-11 4.9 GB: 2-of-11 4.9 GB: 3-of-11 4.9 GB: 4-of-11 4.9 GB: 5-of-11 4.9 GB: 6-of-11 4.9 GB: 7-of-11 4.9 GB: 8-of-11 4.9 GB: 9-of-11 4.9 GB: 10-of-11 2.8 GB: 11-of-11
Supported Languages	en es ru pt id ar th fr de uk vi ja ko zh tr it pl
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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