What are the hardware requirements for Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B?

Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1000K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B and how large is it?

Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B is developed by migtissera, a model with 12b 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 Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B?

Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B by migtissera — VRAM 24.5GB, 1000K context

Name: Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B
Author: migtissera

Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B is an open-source language model by migtissera. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 1000K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Mistral Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/migtissera/Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12B

Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

The compute for this model was sponsored by KindoAI.

Input Output

Input Format:

encoded tokens with instructions

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

decoded text string

LLM Name	Tess 3 Mistral Nemo 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/migtissera/Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12B
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	migtissera
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.9 GB: 5-of-5 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	1024000
Model Max Length	1024000
Transformers Version	4.44.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	131075
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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