What are the hardware requirements for Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M?

Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M requires approximately 3.1 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 Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M and how large is it?

Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M is developed by rubenroy, a model with 1.5b 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 Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M?

Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M by rubenroy — VRAM 3.1GB, 32K context

Name: Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M
Author: rubenroy

Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M is an open-source language model by rubenroy. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-1.5b-i... Chat Conversational Dataset:rubenroy/gammacorpus-v... Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Gammacorpus Instruct Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Trl Unsloth Zurich

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/rubenroy/Zurich-1.5B-GCv2-5m

Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Zurich 1.5B GCv2 5M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/rubenroy/Zurich-1.5B-GCv2-5m
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	rubenroy
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|PAD_TOKEN\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than rubenroy/Zurich-1.5B-GCv2-5m.