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Reviewed May 2026

Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish

YTU CE COSMOS's Llama 3 8B Turkish instruction-tuned variant. Follow-up to the original Turkish-Llama-8b that uses the Llama 3 base instead of Llama 2 — better tokenizer, stronger zero-shot Turkish.

License: Llama-3-Community·Context: 8,192 tokens

Overview

YTU CE COSMOS's Llama 3 8B Turkish instruction-tuned variant. Follow-up to the original Turkish-Llama-8b that uses the Llama 3 base instead of Llama 2 — better tokenizer, stronger zero-shot Turkish.

Strengths

  • Llama 3 tokenizer handles Turkish more efficiently than Llama 2
  • Same well-validated YTU CE COSMOS training recipe
  • Instruction-tuned — drops into chat applications directly

Weaknesses

  • 8K context inherited from Llama 3 base
  • v0.1 may be superseded by newer YTU releases
  • Llama 3 community license — read the 700M MAU clause if you're scaling

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M4.4 GB6 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/ytu-ce-cosmos/Turkish-Llama-3-8b-Instruct-v0.1

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish?

6GB of VRAM is enough to run Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 4.4 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish commercially?

Yes — Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish ships under the Llama-3-Community, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish?

Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish supports a context window of 8,192 tokens (about 8K).

Source: huggingface.co/ytu-ce-cosmos/Turkish-Llama-3-8b-Instruct-v0.1

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