What are the hardware requirements for Amberlight Lux 12B?

Amberlight Lux 12B requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Amberlight Lux 12B and how large is it?

Amberlight Lux 12B is developed by shrugging-shoulders, a model with 12b 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 Amberlight Lux 12B?

Amberlight Lux 12B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Amberlight Lux 12B by shrugging-shoulders — VRAM 24.5GB, 128K context

Name: Amberlight Lux 12B
Author: shrugging-shoulders

Amberlight Lux 12B is an open-source language model by shrugging-shoulders. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

Base model:finetune:shrugging-... Base model:shrugging-shoulders... Conversational Dataset:shrugging-shoulders/if... De En Endpoints compatible Es Finetuned Fr It Ja Mistral Pt Region:us Roleplay Ru Safetensors Trl Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/shrugging-shoulders/Amberlight-Lux-12B

Amberlight Lux 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Amberlight Lux 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/shrugging-shoulders/Amberlight-Lux-12B
Base Model(s)	Amberlight 12B shrugging-shoulders/Amberlight-12B
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-09-03
Maintainer	shrugging-shoulders
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	24.5 GB
Supported Languages	en fr de es it pt ru zh ja
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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