openai-community / text-generation updated 2 years ago

gpt2-medium

Name: gpt2-medium
Author: openai-community

Model Description: GPT-2 Medium is the 355M parameter version of GPT-2, a transformer-based language model created and released by OpenAI. The model is a pretrained model on English language using a causal language modeling (CLM) objective.

Params

380 M

Context

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Downloads 30d

572 K

Likes

205

Commercial use: allowed mit Not gated SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

daily snapshots · 10 days

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	f32	1.5 GB	2.2 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/gpt2-medium
{
  "hf_id": "openai-community/gpt2-medium",
  "params_b": 0.38,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "mit", "commercial": "yes" },
  "downloads_30d": 571519,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "f32", "gb": 2.2 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:04:48Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: GPT2LMHeadModel
Parameters: 380 M
Tensor type: F32
Vocabulary: 50,257
Licence: mit
First seen on the Hub: 2022-03-02
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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