What are the hardware requirements for Periquito 3B?

Periquito 3B requires approximately 14.2 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 Periquito 3B and how large is it?

Periquito 3B is developed by wandgibaut, 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 Periquito 3B?

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

Periquito 3B by wandgibaut — VRAM 14.2GB, 2K context

Name: Periquito 3B
Author: wandgibaut

Periquito 3B is an open-source language model by wandgibaut. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 14.2GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Dataset:wikimedia/wikipedia Endpoints compatible Llama Model-index Pt Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/wandgibaut/periquito-3B

Periquito 3B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Llama, text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

text generation, language understanding, various natural language processing tasks

Limitations:

Might exhibit biases present in its training data, Performance primarily optimized for Portuguese, potentially limiting its effectiveness with other languages

Additional Notes

Specialized in Brazilian Portuguese understanding and generation.

Supported Languages

Portuguese (high)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Wikipedia-pt

Methodology:

Finetunning using LoRA in Google's TPU-v3

Hardware Used:

Google's TPU-v3 in Google's TPU Research Program

Model Architecture:

OpenLlama-3B

LLM Name	Periquito 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/wandgibaut/periquito-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	14.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	wandgibaut
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.2 GB: 2-of-2 10.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	pt
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.31.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	52000
Torch Data Type	float32

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