What are the hardware requirements for Caracal GPT?

Caracal GPT requires approximately 1.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Caracal GPT and how large is it?

Caracal GPT is developed by theophilusowiti, a model with 0.4b 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 Caracal GPT?

Caracal GPT is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Caracal GPT by theophilusowiti — VRAM 1.3GB, 2K context

Name: Caracal GPT
Author: theophilusowiti

Caracal GPT is an open-source language model by theophilusowiti. Features: 0.4b LLM, VRAM: 1.3GB, Context: 2K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Base model:finetune:lelapa/ink... Base model:lelapa/inkubalm-0.4... Custom code En Endpoints compatible Generated from trainer Ha Kam Ki Llama Ln Lug Luo Mas Region:us Rw Safetensors So Sw Xh Yo

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/theophilusowiti/Caracal_GPT

Caracal GPT Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Caracal GPT
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/theophilusowiti/Caracal_GPT
Base Model(s)	lelapa/InkubaLM-0.4B lelapa/InkubaLM-0.4B
Model Size	0.4b
Required VRAM	1.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	theophilusowiti
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.3 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en sw yo so ln ki rw xh ha
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	61788
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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