What are the hardware requirements for Aira 2 1B1?

Aira 2 1B1 requires a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Aira 2 1B1 and how large is it?

Aira 2 1B1 is developed by nicholasKluge, a model with 1.1b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Aira 2 1B1 perform on standard benchmarks?

Aira 2 1B1 has the following published scores: MMLU 24.86. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Aira 2 1B1 by nicholasKluge — 2K context

Name: Aira 2 1B1
Author: nicholasKluge

Aira 2 1B1 is an open-source language model by nicholasKluge. Features: 1.1b LLM, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 23.2, HellaSwag: 27, MMLU: 24.9.

Arxiv:1803.05457 Arxiv:2109.07958 Arxiv:2203.09509 Alignment Assistant Base model:finetune:tinyllama/... Base model:tinyllama/tinyllama... Co2 eq emissions Conversation Dataset:nicholaskluge/instruct... En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nicholasKluge/Aira-2-1B1

Aira 2 1B1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Aira 2 1B1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nicholasKluge/Aira-2-1B1
Base Model(s)	TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-intermediate-step-955k-token-2T TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-intermediate-step-955k-token-2T
Model Size	1.1b
Required VRAM	0 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	nicholasKluge
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	0.0 GB 4.4 GB 8.8 GB 4.4 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.35.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	32005
Torch Data Type	float32

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