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Perplexitytransformer

Sonar Small

8B parameters • 4.4GB VRAM (Q4) • 127,000 context

Specifications

Parameters
8B
VRAM (Q4)
4.4 GB
VRAM (FP16)
16 GB
Context Window
127,000
Architecture
transformer
License
Perplexity TOS
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