What are the hardware requirements for Bling Falcon 1B 0.1?

Bling Falcon 1B 0.1 requires approximately 5.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Bling Falcon 1B 0.1 and how large is it?

Bling Falcon 1B 0.1 is developed by llmware, a model with 1b 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 Bling Falcon 1B 0.1?

Bling Falcon 1B 0.1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bling Falcon 1B 0.1 by llmware — VRAM 5.2GB, 2K context

Name: Bling Falcon 1B 0.1
Author: llmware

Bling Falcon 1B 0.1 is an open-source language model by llmware. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 5.2GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Arxiv:2306.01116 Custom code Falcon Pytorch Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/llmware/bling-falcon-1b-0.1

Bling Falcon 1B 0.1 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

GPTNeoX instruct-trained decoder

Use Cases

Areas:

enterprise automation, financial services, legal and regulatory industries

Applications:

question-answering, key-value extraction, basic summarization

Primary Use Cases:

Provide high-quality Instruct models for local testing, Push the state of the art for smaller Instruct-following models

Additional Notes

Designed to run on a CPU laptop without advanced quantization optimizations, useful for handling sensitive enterprise data locally.

Supported Languages

English (High)

Training Details

Methodology:

Instruct trained on top of a falcon-rw-1b base model

LLM Name	Bling Falcon 1B 0.1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/llmware/bling-falcon-1b-0.1
Model Name	bling-falcon-1b-0.1
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	5.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	llmware
Model Type	falcon
Model Files	5.2 GB
Model Architecture	FalconForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.33.2
Is Biased	1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	50304
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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Neuralfalcon 1B V1	2K / 2.8 GB	110	0
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Falcon Rw 1B Chat	2K / 2.6 GB	129	3
Falcon 1b Stage2	2K / 2.6 GB	407	3
Falcon 1b Stage1	2K / 2.6 GB	255	0
Falcon 1b Stage3	2K / 2.6 GB	9	0
Falcon 1b Stage3 2	2K / 2.6 GB	9	0
INTERS Falcon 1B	2K / 0.7 GB	16	1
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than llmware/bling-falcon-1b-0.1.