What are the hardware requirements for Mistral 0.5B 40K?

Mistral 0.5B 40K requires approximately 1.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Mistral 0.5B 40K and how large is it?

Mistral 0.5B 40K is developed by hongyin, a model with 0.5b 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 Mistral 0.5B 40K?

Mistral 0.5B 40K is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Mistral 0.5B 40K by hongyin — VRAM 1.2GB, 40K context

Name: Mistral 0.5B 40K
Author: hongyin

Mistral 0.5B 40K is an open-source language model by hongyin. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 1.2GB, Context: 40K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Arxiv:2302.13173 En Endpoints compatible Mistral Pytorch Region:us Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/hongyin/mistral-0.5b-40k

Mistral 0.5B 40K Parameters and Internals

Model Type

autoregressive, bilingual

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

Alchemy

Limitations:

Not intended for chatbot use

Additional Notes

The model is designed to be computationally cheap and easy to inference. It has a unique vocabulary.

Supported Languages

en (English), zh (Chinese)

LLM Name	Mistral 0.5B 40K
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/hongyin/mistral-0.5b-40k
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	1.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	hongyin
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	1.2 GB
Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.34.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	49304
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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