What are the hardware requirements for Manaca 1B Base?

Manaca 1B Base requires approximately 3.5 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 Manaca 1B Base and how large is it?

Manaca 1B Base is developed by menezesbruno, 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 Manaca 1B Base?

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

Manaca 1B Base by menezesbruno — VRAM 3.5GB, 4K context

Name: Manaca 1B Base
Author: menezesbruno

Manaca 1B Base is an open-source language model by menezesbruno. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 4K, License: cc-by-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.36.

Arxiv:2608.30114 Brazilian-portuguese Dataset:tucanobr/gigaverbo Dataset:wikimedia/wikipedia Endpoints compatible Llama Megatron-lm Portuguese Pt Pt-br Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/menezesbruno/manaca-1b-base

Manaca 1B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Manaca 1B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/menezesbruno/manaca-1b-base
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-09-01
Maintainer	menezesbruno
Model Type	llama
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	pt
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-4.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	64128
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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