What are the hardware requirements for Internlm2 5 1 8B?

Internlm2 5 1 8B requires approximately 3.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Internlm2 5 1 8B and how large is it?

Internlm2 5 1 8B is developed by internlm, a model with 8b 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 Internlm2 5 1 8B?

Internlm2 5 1 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Internlm2 5 1 8B by internlm — VRAM 3.8GB, 32K context

Name: Internlm2 5 1 8B
Author: internlm

Internlm2 5 1 8B is an open-source language model by internlm. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 3.8GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Arxiv:2403.17297 Custom code Internlm2 Pytorch Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm2_5-1_8b

Internlm2 5 1 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

Model leverages a large amount of synthetic data and continuously uses the InternLM for iterative training.

Input Output

Input Format:

text

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

Performance Tips:

Load model in float16 to avoid OOM errors.

LLM Name	Internlm2 5 1 8b
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm2_5-1_8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	3.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	internlm
Model Type	internlm2
Model Files	3.8 GB
Model Architecture	InternLM2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.34.0
Is Biased	0
Tokenizer Class	InternLM2Tokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	92544
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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