What are the hardware requirements for Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit?

Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit requires approximately 2.2 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 Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit and how large is it?

Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit 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 Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit?

Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit by tiiuae — VRAM 2.2GB, 4K context

Name: Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit
Author: tiiuae

Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 2.2GB, Context: 4K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:2402.17764 Base model:quantized:tiiuae/fa... Base model:tiiuae/falcon3-3b-b... Bitnet Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Falcon3 Llama Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Base-1.58bit

Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon3 3B Base 1.58bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Base-1.58bit
Base Model(s)	Falcon3 3B Base tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Base
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	2.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.2 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.46.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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