What are the hardware requirements for SERA 8B GA 4bit?

SERA 8B GA 4bit requires approximately 4.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed SERA 8B GA 4bit and how large is it?

SERA 8B GA 4bit is developed by mlx-community, 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 SERA 8B GA 4bit?

SERA 8B GA 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

SERA 8B GA 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 4.6GB, 40K context

Name: SERA 8B GA 4bit
Author: mlx-community

SERA 8B GA 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 4.6GB, Context: 40K, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

4-bit 4bit Base model:allenai/sera-8b-ga Base model:quantized:allenai/s... Conversational Mlx Quantized Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/SERA-8B-GA-4bit

SERA 8B GA 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	SERA 8B GA 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/SERA-8B-GA-4bit
Base Model(s)	SERA 8B GA allenai/SERA-8B-GA
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	4.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.6 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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