What are the hardware requirements for Galactica 30B?

Galactica 30B requires a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Galactica 30B and how large is it?

Galactica 30B is developed by jacobthebanana, a model with 30b 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 Galactica 30B?

Galactica 30B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Galactica 30B by jacobthebanana — 2K context

Name: Galactica 30B
Author: jacobthebanana

Galactica 30B is an open-source language model by jacobthebanana. Features: 30b LLM, Context: 2K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.04.

Endpoints compatible Jax Opt Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/jacobthebanana/galactica-30b

Galactica 30B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

large language model, science

Additional Notes

JAX weights converted from Torch checkpoint. Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC).

LLM Name	Galactica 30B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/jacobthebanana/galactica-30b
Model Size	30b
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	jacobthebanana
Model Type	opt
Model Architecture	OPTForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.23.1
Is Biased	0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	50000
Torch Data Type	float16
Activation Function	gelu

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Opt Iml 30B	2K / 60.1 GB	36	73
Galactica 30B	2K / 60.8 GB	71	40
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...h 1e 5 Lr Handwritten Complete	2K / 121.7 GB	18	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than jacobthebanana/galactica-30b.