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

Internlm2 5 1 8B Chat 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 Chat and how large is it?

Internlm2 5 1 8B Chat 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 Chat?

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

Name: Internlm2 5 1 8B Chat
Author: internlm

Internlm2 5 1 8B Chat is an open-source language model by internlm. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 3.8GB, Context: 32K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2403.17297 Conversational Custom code Feature-extraction Internlm2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

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

Internlm2 5 1 8B Chat Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation, chat model

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Applications:

general chat, reasoning tasks, tool usage integration, information retrieval

Primary Use Cases:

discussions and chat in practical scenarios, information gathering and reasoning

Limitations:

prone to biases and unexpected outputs, may generate harmful content if not used responsibly

Considerations:

Ensure outputs are evaluated for biases and adherence to ethical standards before dissemination.

Additional Notes

InternLM2.5 enhances tool usage and reasoning capabilities.

Input Output

Input Format:

Custom input format for chat interfaces

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

Textual responses

Performance Tips:

Use stream_chat for better performance during interactive sessions.

LLM Name	Internlm2 5 1 8b Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm2_5-1_8b-chat
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	3.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-23
Maintainer	internlm
Model Type	internlm2
Model Files	2.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.8 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	InternLM2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.41.0
Is Biased	0
Tokenizer Class	InternLM2Tokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	92544
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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