What are the hardware requirements for Zeta 2?

Zeta 2 requires approximately 16.5 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 Zeta 2 and how large is it?

Zeta 2 is developed by zed-industries, a model with 8b 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 Zeta 2?

Zeta 2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Zeta 2 by zed-industries — VRAM 16.5GB, 32K context

Name: Zeta 2
Author: zed-industries

Zeta 2 is an open-source language model by zed-industries. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.5GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Base model:bytedance-seed/seed... Base model:finetune:bytedance-... Codegen Deploy:azure Edit-prediction En Endpoints compatible Llama Next-edit-suggestion Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2

Zeta 2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Zeta 2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2
Base Model(s)	Seed Coder 8B Base ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Base
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	zed-industries
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 1.6 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<[PAD▁TOKEN]>
Vocabulary Size	155136
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

Rank the Zeta 2 capabilities

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Zeta 2

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
CoolerCoder 8B Model Stock	128K / 16.1 GB	34	2
...ynesthesia 3.1 Task Arithmetic	128K / 16.1 GB	7	0
Replete Coder V2 Llama 3.1 8B	128K / 16.1 GB	19	9
Seed Coder 8B Reasoning	64K / 32.9 GB	314	154
Seed Coder 8B Reasoning Bf16	64K / 16.5 GB	123	23
Zeta 2.1	32K / 16.5 GB	2053	76
Seed Coder 8B Instruct	32K / 16.5 GB	2327	117
Seed Coder 8B Base	32K / 16.5 GB	721	75
Seed Coder 8B Instruct V1	32K / 32.9 GB	43	2
Seed Coder 8B Instruct	32K / 16.5 GB	25	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than zed-industries/zeta-2.