What are the hardware requirements for Ksong 1 12B V1 M2?

Ksong 1 12B V1 M2 requires approximately 20 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 Ksong 1 12B V1 M2 and how large is it?

Ksong 1 12B V1 M2 is developed by kainatq, a model with 12b 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 Ksong 1 12B V1 M2?

Ksong 1 12B V1 M2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ksong 1 12B V1 M2 by kainatq — VRAM 20GB, 128K context

Name: Ksong 1 12B V1 M2
Author: kainatq

Ksong 1 12B V1 M2 is an open-source language model by kainatq. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 20GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Merged Model Conversational Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kainatq/ksong-1-12b_v1_m2

Ksong 1 12B V1 M2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ksong 1 12b V1 M2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kainatq/ksong-1-12b_v1_m2
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	20 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	kainatq
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	1.3 GB: 1-of-11 1.9 GB: 2-of-11 1.9 GB: 3-of-11 1.9 GB: 4-of-11 1.9 GB: 5-of-11 1.9 GB: 6-of-11 1.9 GB: 7-of-11 1.9 GB: 8-of-11 1.9 GB: 9-of-11 1.9 GB: 10-of-11 1.6 GB: 11-of-11
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131074

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