Model reference · open weights
SOLAR-0 is an open-weight language model from upstage. SOLAR-0-70b-16bit (BF16) weighs 138 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× A100 80 GB.
Summary of the upstage/SOLAR-0-70b-16bit model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | upstage |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-07-30 |
| VRAM | 138 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … H200 141 GB 11 smaller cards | — | — | |
| B200 180 GB | 24 | all 4K | 176 GB |
| 2× A100 80 GB tensor parallel | 12 | all 4K | 78.2 GB a card |
| 4× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | 25 | all 4K | 44.0 GB a card |
| 2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB tensor parallel | 30 | all 4K | 93.8 GB a card |
| 2× H200 141 GB tensor parallel | 96 | all 4K | 138 GB a card |
| 4× H100 80 GB tensor parallel | 116 | all 4K | 78.1 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 4K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 140 GB |
| 5 | 145 GB |
| 8 | 150 GB |
| 16 | 160 GB |
| 32 | 182 GB |
| 64 | 225 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOLAR-0-70b-16bit (above) ↗ | — | BF16 | 138 GB | 2× A100 80 GB |
| SOLAR-0-70b-8bit ↗ | — | INT8 | 69.5 GB | H100 80 GB |
From the model card
Solar, a new bot created by Upstage, is now available on Poe. As a top-ranked model on the HuggingFace Open LLM leaderboard, and a fine tune of Llama 2, Solar is a great example of the progress enabled by open source. Try now at https://poe.com/Solar-0-70b
The model name has been changed from LLaMa-2-70b-instruct-v2 to SOLAR-0-70b-16bit
### System:
{System}
### User:
{User}
### Assistant:
{Assistant}
rope_scaling optionimport torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TextStreamer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("upstage/Llama-2-70b-instruct-v2")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"upstage/Llama-2-70b-instruct-v2",
device_map="auto",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
load_in_8bit=True,
rope_scaling={"type": "dynamic", "factor": 2} # allows handling of longer inputs
)
prompt = "### User:\nThomas is healthy, but he has to go to the hospital. What could be the reasons?\n\n### Assistant:\n"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
del inputs["token_type_ids"]
streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer, skip_prompt=True, skip_special_tokens=True)
output = model.generate(**inputs, streamer=streamer, use_cache=True, max_new_tokens=float('inf'))
output_text = tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
ARC-Challenge, HellaSwag, MMLU, and TruthfulQA
We used the lm-evaluation-harness repository, specifically commit b281b0921b636bc36ad05c0b0b0763bd6dd43463.| Model | H4(Avg) | ARC | HellaSwag | MMLU | TruthfulQA | MT_Bench | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama-2-70b-instruct-v2(Ours, Open LLM Leaderboard) | 73 | 71.1 | 87.9 | 70.6 | 62.2 | 7.44063 | |
| Llama-2-70b-instruct (Ours, Open LLM Leaderboard) | 72.3 | 70.9 | 87.5 | 69.8 | 61 | 7.24375 | |
| llama-65b-instruct (Ours, Open LLM Leaderboard) | 69.4 | 67.6 | 86.5 | 64.9 | 58.8 | ||
| Llama-2-70b-hf | 67.3 | 67.3 | 87.3 | 69.8 | 44.9 | ||
| llama-30b-instruct-2048 (Ours, Open LLM Leaderboard) | 67.0 | 64.9 | 84.9 | 61.9 | 56.3 | ||
| llama-30b-instruct (Ours, Open LLM Leaderboard) | 65.2 | 62.5 | 86.2 | 59.4 | 52.8 | ||
| llama-65b | 64.2 | 63.5 | 86.1 | 63.9 | 43.4 | ||
| falcon-40b-instruct | 63.4 | 61.6 | 84.3 | 55.4 | 52.5 |
# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness.git
# check out the specific commit
git checkout b281b0921b636bc36ad05c0b0b0763bd6dd43463
# change to the repository directory
cd lm-evaluation-harness
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.