Model reference · open weights
Aurora1.0 is an open-weight language model from AuroraAI-Research. Aurora1.0-150M (BF16) weighs 299 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the AuroraAI-Research/Aurora1.0-150M model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | AuroraAI-Research |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-09-13 |
| Parameters | 149M |
| VRAM | 299 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | 275 | all 1K | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 371 | all 1K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 575 | all 1K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 573 | all 1K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 768 | all 1K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 1000+ | all 1K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 176 GB |
| Requests at once | 1K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 826 MB |
| 5 | 983 MB |
| 8 | 1.1 GB |
| 16 | 1.4 GB |
| 32 | 2.0 GB |
| 64 | 3.3 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
piqa: acc,none: 0.6273 acc_norm,none: 0.6224
hellaswag: acc,none: 0.2922 acc_norm,none: 0.3220
arc_easy: acc,none: 0.4987 acc_norm,none: 0.4491
arc_challenge: acc,none: 0.2099 acc_norm,none: 0.2500
arithmark_3.0: acc,none: 0.3390 acc_norm,none: 0.3390
Int Index based on OpenSLM-Leaderboard: 15.09 It matches or slightly beats GPT2-Small on most Benchmarks
Context Lenght: 1024
Factorized & Tied Embeddings Vocabulary Size: 32768 Embedding Rank: 384
GQA Attention (2:1 Head ratio) 10 Query and 5 Key/Value heads Head Dimension: 64 Positional Encoding: RoPE (θ=10000) QK-Norm
30 identical Transformer Layers Hidden Size: 640 Intermediate Size: 1728 Activation: SwiGLU
Muon and AdamW Around 150M Parameters 7 Billion tokens of Pretraining 11 Hours on an RTX Pro 6000
You can use the Inference.py script.
Example command: inference.py --Prompt "The capital of Denmark is" --temperature 0.1 --max_new_tokens 32
Output: The capital of Denmark is Copenhagen, which has a population of about 1.5 million people. The city is located in the northern part of the country and is surrounded by the sea.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.