What are the hardware requirements for GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct?

GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct requires approximately 17.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct and how large is it?

GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct is developed by mPLUG, 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 GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct?

GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct by mPLUG — VRAM 17.5GB

Name: GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct
Author: mPLUG

GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct is an open-source language model by mPLUG. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.5GB, License: mit, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Arxiv:2602.16855 En Instruct Qwen3 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mPLUG/GUI-Owl-1.5-8B-Instruct

GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GUI Owl 1.5 8B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mPLUG/GUI-Owl-1.5-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-30
Maintainer	mPLUG
Model Type	qwen3_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.7 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
License	mit
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mPLUG/GUI-Owl-1.5-8B-Instruct.