What are the hardware requirements for Falcon E 3B Base?

Falcon E 3B Base requires approximately 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 Falcon E 3B Base and how large is it?

Falcon E 3B Base is developed by tiiuae, a model with 3b 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 Falcon E 3B Base?

Falcon E 3B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon E 3B Base by tiiuae — VRAM 1GB, 32K context

Name: Falcon E 3B Base
Author: tiiuae

Falcon E 3B Base is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 32K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-E-3B-Base

Falcon E 3B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon E 3B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-E-3B-Base
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.0 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.51.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32768
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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