What are the hardware requirements for Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct?

Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct requires approximately 6.5 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 Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct and how large is it?

Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct is developed by typhoon-ai, 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 Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct?

Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct by typhoon-ai — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct
Author: typhoon-ai

Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct is an open-source language model by typhoon-ai. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2412.13702 Conversational Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/typhoon-ai/llama3.2-typhoon2-3b-instruct

Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama3.2 Typhoon2 3B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/typhoon-ai/llama3.2-typhoon2-3b-instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	typhoon-ai
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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