What are the hardware requirements for Speck1.5 140M?

Speck1.5 140M requires approximately 0.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Speck1.5 140M and how large is it?

Speck1.5 140M is developed by specklabs, a model with 140m 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 Speck1.5 140M?

Speck1.5 140M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Speck1.5 140M by specklabs — VRAM 0.3GB, 4K context

Name: Speck1.5 140M
Author: specklabs

Speck1.5 140M is an open-source language model by specklabs. Features: 140m LLM, VRAM: 0.3GB, Context: 4K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

Base-model Causal-convolution Custom code Dataset:allenai/pes2o Dataset:huggingfacefw/fineweb-... Dataset:huggingfacetb/dclm-edu Dataset:huggingfacetb/finemath Dataset:huggingfacetb/smollm-c... Dataset:mlfoundations/dclm-bas... Dataset:openbmb/ultra-fineweb Dataset:openbmb/ultra-fineweb-... Dataset:openbmb/ultradata-math Dataset:wikimedia/wikipedia En Grouped-query-attention Hybrid Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Speck

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/specklabs/Speck1.5-140M

Speck1.5 140M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Speck1.5 140M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/specklabs/Speck1.5-140M
Model Size	140m
Required VRAM	0.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-31
Maintainer	specklabs
Model Type	speck
Model Files	0.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	SpeckForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	5.1.0
Tokenizer Class	SpeckTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000

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