What are the hardware requirements for Parrot 1 6B?

Parrot 1 6B requires approximately 3.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Parrot 1 6B and how large is it?

Parrot 1 6B is developed by maxim-saplin, a model with 6b 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 Parrot 1 6B?

Parrot 1 6B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Parrot 1 6B by maxim-saplin — VRAM 3.3GB, 4K context

Name: Parrot 1 6B
Author: maxim-saplin

Parrot 1 6B is an open-source language model by maxim-saplin. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 3.3GB, Context: 4K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Conversational En Endpoints compatible Region:us Ru Safetensors Sharded Stablelm Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/maxim-saplin/parrot-1_6B

Parrot 1 6B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

causal-lm

Use Cases

Areas:

research, experimental projects

Applications:

chatbots, text processing

Primary Use Cases:

repeating user messages in ALL CAPS

Limitations:

language limitations depend on the training data, no explicit Russian training samples were included

Additional Notes

Trained to repeat user messages in all caps with chat structure learning.

Supported Languages

en (high proficiency), ru (high proficiency)

Training Details

Data Sources:

4k messages in each epoch

Data Volume:

8k messages total

Methodology:

LORA fine-tuning with str.upper() behavior

Training Time:

11 minutes

Hardware Used:

RTX 4060 8GB

LLM Name	Parrot 1 6B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/maxim-saplin/parrot-1_6B
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	3.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	maxim-saplin
Model Type	stablelm
Model Files	2.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.3 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en ru
Model Architecture	StableLmForCausalLM
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	100289
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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