What are the hardware requirements for BetterGPT2?

BetterGPT2 requires approximately 3.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed BetterGPT2 and how large is it?

BetterGPT2 is developed by mergekit-community, a model with 1.6b 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 BetterGPT2?

BetterGPT2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

BetterGPT2 by mergekit-community — VRAM 3.1GB

Name: BetterGPT2
Author: mergekit-community

BetterGPT2 is an open-source language model by mergekit-community. Features: 1.6b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Merged Model Arxiv:2306.01708 Base model:finetune:openai-com... Base model:openai-community/gp... Endpoints compatible Gpt2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mergekit-community/BetterGPT2

BetterGPT2 Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

This model is a merge of pre-trained language models created using mergekit.

Training Details

Methodology:

The model was created using the TIES merge method.

LLM Name	BetterGPT2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mergekit-community/BetterGPT2
Base Model(s)	Gpt2 Xl openai-community/gpt2-xl
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	1.6b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-04-17
Maintainer	mergekit-community
Model Type	gpt2
Model Files	3.1 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	GPT2LMHeadModel
Model Max Length	1024
Transformers Version	4.44.1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	50257
Torch Data Type	float16
Activation Function	gelu_new

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