What are the hardware requirements for ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit?

ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit requires approximately 5.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit and how large is it?

ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit is developed by itselouardi, 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 ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit?

ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit by itselouardi — VRAM 5.4GB, 128K context

Name: ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit
Author: itselouardi

ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit is an open-source language model by itselouardi. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 5.4GB, Context: 128K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/itselouardi/ZAYA1-8B-bnb-4bit

ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	ZAYA1 8B Bnb 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/itselouardi/ZAYA1-8B-bnb-4bit
Base Model(s)	ZAYA1 8B Zyphra/ZAYA1-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	5.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	itselouardi
Model Type	zaya
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.4 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	ZayaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262272

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Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX	128K / 9.5 GB	157	4
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ZAYA1 8B Legacy	128K / 17.7 GB	27	0

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