What are the hardware requirements for Gradients Instruct 8B?

Gradients Instruct 8B requires approximately 32.7 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 Gradients Instruct 8B and how large is it?

Gradients Instruct 8B is developed by rayonlabs, 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 Gradients Instruct 8B?

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

Gradients Instruct 8B by rayonlabs — VRAM 32.7GB, 32K context

Name: Gradients Instruct 8B
Author: rayonlabs

Gradients Instruct 8B is an open-source language model by rayonlabs. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 32.7GB, Context: 32K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Instruct Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/rayonlabs/Gradients-Instruct-8B

Gradients Instruct 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gradients Instruct 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/rayonlabs/Gradients-Instruct-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	32.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	rayonlabs
Model Type	qwen3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-7 4.8 GB: 2-of-7 4.8 GB: 3-of-7 5.0 GB: 4-of-7 4.8 GB: 5-of-7 4.8 GB: 6-of-7 3.5 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.54.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float32
Errors	replace

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