What are the hardware requirements for Yi 6B Guanaco?

Yi 6B Guanaco requires approximately 12.1 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 Yi 6B Guanaco and how large is it?

Yi 6B Guanaco is developed by mzbac, a model with 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 Yi 6B Guanaco?

Yi 6B Guanaco is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 6B Guanaco by mzbac — VRAM 12.1GB, 4K context

Name: Yi 6B Guanaco
Author: mzbac

Yi 6B Guanaco is an open-source language model by mzbac. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 12.1GB, Context: 4K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Custom code Pytorch Region:us Sharded Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mzbac/Yi-6B-guanaco

Yi 6B Guanaco Parameters and Internals

Input Output

Input Format:

### Human: {prompt} ### Assistant:

LLM Name	Yi 6B Guanaco
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mzbac/Yi-6B-guanaco
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	12.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	mzbac
Model Type	Yi
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 2.2 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	YiForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.34.0
Tokenizer Class	YiTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	float16

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