What are the hardware requirements for Keural Cortex 8B V1.0?

Keural Cortex 8B V1.0 requires approximately 16.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Keural Cortex 8B V1.0 and how large is it?

Keural Cortex 8B V1.0 is developed by mkd-ai, a model with 8b 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 Keural Cortex 8B V1.0?

Keural Cortex 8B V1.0 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Keural Cortex 8B V1.0 by mkd-ai — VRAM 16.4GB, 64K context

Name: Keural Cortex 8B V1.0
Author: mkd-ai

Keural Cortex 8B V1.0 is an open-source language model by mkd-ai. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

Agent Conversational En Endpoints compatible English Function-calling Ko Korean Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mkd-ai/Keural-Cortex-8B-v1.0

Keural Cortex 8B V1.0 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Keural Cortex 8B V1.0
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mkd-ai/Keural-Cortex-8B-v1.0
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.4 GB
Updated	2026-09-26
Maintainer	mkd-ai
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	16.4 GB
Supported Languages	en ko
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	5.17.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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