What are the hardware requirements for Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX?

Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX requires approximately 9.5 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 Base 8B 8bit MLX and how large is it?

Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX is developed by kyr0, 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 Base 8B 8bit MLX?

Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX by kyr0 — VRAM 9.5GB, 128K context

Name: Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX
Author: kyr0

Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX is an open-source language model by kyr0. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 9.5GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Arxiv:2510.04476 Arxiv:2511.17127 8-bit 8bit Base model:quantized:zyphra/za... Base model:zyphra/zaya1-8b Conversational Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zaya

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kyr0/zaya1-base-8b-8bit-MLX

Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Zaya1 Base 8B 8bit MLX
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kyr0/zaya1-base-8b-8bit-MLX
Base Model(s)	ZAYA1 8B Zyphra/ZAYA1-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	9.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	kyr0
Model Type	zaya
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 4.1 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	ZayaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262272

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