What are the hardware requirements for Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16?

Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16 requires approximately 4.8 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 Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16 and how large is it?

Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16 is developed by microsoft, a model with 2b 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 Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16?

Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16 by microsoft — VRAM 4.8GB, 4K context

Name: Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16
Author: microsoft

Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16 is an open-source language model by microsoft. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 4.8GB, Context: 4K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Arxiv:2504.12285 Bitnet Chat Conversational Custom code En Endpoints compatible Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-bf16

Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Bitnet B1.58 2B 4T Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T-bf16
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	4.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	microsoft
Model Type	bitnet
Model Files	4.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	BitNetForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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