What are the hardware requirements for BitCPM CANN 8B?

BitCPM CANN 8B requires approximately 16.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed BitCPM CANN 8B and how large is it?

BitCPM CANN 8B is developed by openbmb, 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 BitCPM CANN 8B?

BitCPM CANN 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

BitCPM CANN 8B by openbmb — VRAM 16.4GB, 32K context

Name: BitCPM CANN 8B
Author: openbmb

BitCPM CANN 8B is an open-source language model by openbmb. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

Conversational Custom code En Minicpm Pytorch Region:us Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/BitCPM-CANN-8B

BitCPM CANN 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	BitCPM CANN 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/openbmb/BitCPM-CANN-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	openbmb
Model Type	minicpm
Model Files	16.4 GB
Supported Languages	zh en
Model Architecture	MiniCPMForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	73448
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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MiniCPM4.1 8B	64K / 16.3 GB	104569	391
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MiniCPM4 8B Eagle VLLM	32K / 2.3 GB	107	10
MiniCPM4 8B Marlin VLLM	32K / 5.2 GB	76	7
MiniCPM4 8B Marlin Cpmcu	32K / 5.1 GB	70	8
MiniCPM4 Survey	32K / 16.5 GB	55	14
MiniCPM4 8B Eagle FRSpec	32K / 0 GB	57	9

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