dolphin
3B parameters
Commercial OK
Reviewed May 2026

Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B

Eric Hartford's Dolphin fine-tune at 3B. Less-censored than the base Llama; popular for unconstrained-generation use cases.

License: Llama Community License·Released Dec 15, 2024·Context: 131,072 tokens

Overview

Eric Hartford's Dolphin fine-tune at 3B. Less-censored than the base Llama; popular for unconstrained-generation use cases.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Parent / base model
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3B
Edge
Family siblings (dolphin-3)

Strengths

  • Less censored than base
  • Strong creative-writing benchmarks

Weaknesses

  • Smaller community than Llama base

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_M1.8 GB3 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/cognitivecomputations/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B?

3GB of VRAM is enough to run Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 1.8 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B commercially?

Yes — Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B ships under the Llama Community License, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B?

Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.2 3B supports a context window of 131,072 tokens (about 131K).

Source: huggingface.co/cognitivecomputations/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B

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