openai-community / text-generation updated 2 years ago

gpt2

Name: gpt2
Author: openai-community

Test the whole generation capabilities here: https://transformer.huggingface.co/doc/gpt2-large

Params

140 M

Context

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Downloads 30d

15.4 M

Likes

4,150

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

Download history

daily snapshots · 55 days

▲ 1.3 M in the last 30 days (9.4%)

15.6 M12.6 M

Jul 28Aug 15Sep 2Sep 20

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	0.5 GB	1.1 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
{
  "hf_id": "openai-community/gpt2",
  "params_b": 0.14,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "mit", "commercial": "yes" },
  "downloads_30d": 15362811,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "f32", "gb": 1.1 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T17:06:19Z"
}

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

Specifications

Architecture: GPT2LMHeadModel
Parameters: 140 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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