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Trinity-Nano

LLMs arcee-ai Text gen 4 builds Its own licence terms 16k dl/mo

Trinity-Nano is an open-weight language model from arcee-ai. Trinity-Nano-Preview (BF16) weighs 12.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB.

  • Trinity-Nano is a 6.1B parameter model by arcee-ai for text generation.
  • It has a 131,072 token context length and supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and others.
  • The model is released under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.

Summary of the arcee-ai/Trinity-Nano-Preview model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byarcee-ai
Released2025-12-01
Parameters6.1B
VRAM12.2 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Trinity-Nano-Preview (BF16)

12.2 GBweights, file size
14 MBcache per 1K tokens
264 MBwindow cache per request
886 MBruntime overhead, at least
131,072 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB———11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB53all 128K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB2613all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB2613all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB4624all 128K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB8042all 128K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB17088all 128K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB12747all 128K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB16059all 128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified18970all 128K107 GB
H200 141 GB25494all 128K138 GB
B200 180 GB33483all 128K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
2412all 128K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
4422all 128K15.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
113.5 GB13.9 GB
515.0 GB16.8 GB
816.2 GB19.0 GB
1619.2 GB24.9 GB
3225.3 GB36.6 GB
6437.6 GB60.1 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
Trinity-Nano-Preview (above) ↗ 6.1BBF16 12.2 GBRTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
Trinity-Nano-Preview-W4A16 ↗ 6.2BINT4 4.1 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Trinity-Nano-Preview-NVFP4 ↗ 3.7BNVFP4 4.3 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Trinity-Nano-Preview-MLX-8bit ↗ 6.1BMLX 6.5 GBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What arcee-ai says about Trinity-Nano

Read the model card

src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6435718aaaef013d1aec3b8b/i-v1KyAMOW_mgVGeic9WJ.png" alt="Arcee Trinity Mini" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" >

Trinity Nano Preview

Trinity Nano Preview is a preview of Arcee AI's 6B MoE model with 1B active parameters. It is the small-sized model in our new Trinity family, a series of open-weight models for enterprise and tinkerers alike.

This is a chat tuned model, with a delightful personality and charm we think users will love. We note that this model is pushing the limits of sparsity in small language models with only 800M non-embedding parameters active per token, and as such may be unstable in certain use cases, especially in this preview.

This is an experimental release, it's fun to talk to but will not be hosted anywhere, so download it and try it out yourself!


Trinity Nano Preview is trained on 10T tokens gathered and curated through a key partnership with Datology, building upon the excellent dataset we used on AFM-4.5B with additional math and code.

Training was performed on a cluster of 512 H200 GPUs powered by Prime Intellect using HSDP parallelism.

More details, including key architecture decisions, can be found on our blog here


Model Details

  • Model Architecture: AfmoeForCausalLM
  • Parameters: 6B, 1B active
  • Experts: 128 total, 8 active, 1 shared
  • Context length: 128k
  • Training Tokens: 10T
  • License: OpenMDW-1.1

Running our model

Transformers

Use the main transformers branch

git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
cd transformers

# pip
pip install '.[torch]'

# uv
uv pip install '.[torch]'
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

model_id = "arcee-ai/Trinity-Nano-Preview"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto"
)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]

input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    return_tensors="pt"
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(
    input_ids,
    max_new_tokens=256,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.5,
    top_k=50,
    top_p=0.95
)

response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

If using a released transformers, simply pass "trust_remote_code=True":

model_id = "arcee-ai/Trinity-Nano-Preview"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

VLLM

Supported in VLLM release 0.11.1

# pip
pip install "vllm>=0.11.1"

Serving the model with suggested settings:

vllm serve arcee-train/Trinity-Nano-Preview \
  --dtype bfloat16 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1 \
  --tool-call-parser hermes

llama.cpp

Supported in llama.cpp release b7061

Download the latest llama.cpp release

llama-server -hf arcee-ai/Trinity-Nano-Preview-GGUF:q4_k_m

LM Studio

Supported in latest LM Studio runtime

Update to latest available, then verify your runtime by:

  1. Click "Power User" at the bottom left
  2. Click the green "Developer" icon at the top left
  3. Select "LM Runtimes" at the top
  4. Refresh the list of runtimes and verify that the latest is installed

Then, go to Model Search and search for arcee-ai/Trinity-Nano-Preview-GGUF, download your prefered size, and load it up in the chat

License

Trinity-Nano-Preview is released under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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