What are the hardware requirements for GLiDE 9B FP8?

GLiDE 9B FP8 requires approximately 11 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed GLiDE 9B FP8 and how large is it?

GLiDE 9B FP8 is developed by liodon-ai, a model with 9b 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 GLiDE 9B FP8?

GLiDE 9B FP8 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

GLiDE 9B FP8 by liodon-ai — VRAM 11GB, 256K context

Name: GLiDE 9B FP8
Author: liodon-ai

GLiDE 9B FP8 is an open-source language model by liodon-ai. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 11GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Base model:fastino/glide-9b Base model:quantized:fastino/g... Compressed-tensors Conversational Endpoints compatible Fp8 Quantized Qwen3 5 text Region:us Safetensors Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/liodon-ai/GLiDE-9B-FP8

GLiDE 9B FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GLiDE 9B FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/liodon-ai/GLiDE-9B-FP8
Base Model(s)	GLiDE 9B fastino/GLiDE-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	11 GB
Updated	2026-11-11
Maintainer	liodon-ai
Model Type	qwen3_5_text
Model Files	11.0 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.14.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	248320
Errors	replace

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