What are the hardware requirements for Eris Light 12B?

Eris Light 12B requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1000K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Eris Light 12B and how large is it?

Eris Light 12B is developed by yamatazen, a model with 12b 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 Eris Light 12B?

Eris Light 12B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Eris Light 12B by yamatazen — VRAM 24.5GB, 1000K context

Name: Eris Light 12B
Author: yamatazen

Eris Light 12B is an open-source language model by yamatazen. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 1000K, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Base model:elizezen/himeyuri-v... Base model:inflatebot/mn-12b-m... Base model:intervitens/mini-ma... Base model:natong19/mistral-ne... Base model:nbeerbower/mistral-... Base model:neversleep/lumimaid... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/yamatazen/Eris-Light-12B

Eris Light 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Eris Light 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/yamatazen/Eris-Light-12B
Base Model(s)	...Nemo Instruct 2407 Abliterated Mistral Nemo Gutenberg 12B V4 Elizezen/Himeyuri-v0.1-12B MN 12B Mag Mell R1 NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B intervitens/mini-magnum-12b-v1.1 natong19/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407-abliterated nbeerbower/mistral-nemo-gutenberg-12B-v4 Elizezen/Himeyuri-v0.1-12B inflatebot/MN-12B-Mag-Mell-R1 NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B intervitens/mini-magnum-12b-v1.1
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-03
Maintainer	yamatazen
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.9 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	1024000
Model Max Length	1024000
Transformers Version	4.48.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Qliphoth 12B V1	1000K / 24.5 GB	26	2
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Mistral Nemo Bophades 12B	1000K / 24.5 GB	18	9

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than yamatazen/Eris-Light-12B.