EXAONE 4.5
EXAONE 4.5 is an open-weights language model from LG AI Research, released April 9, 2026. Its makers disclosed about 33B parameters.
This technical report introduces EXAONE 4.5, the first open-weight vision language model released by LG AI Research. EXAONE 4.5 is architected by integrating a dedicated visual encoder into the existing EXAONE 4.0 framework, enabling native multimodal pretraining over both visual and textual modalities.
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Can you run EXAONE 4.5 locally?
Even with 32 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of RAM it is too large to run at a usable speed on a single consumer GPU. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 12 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 16 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 24 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 32 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
Parameter count unknown. The weights may not be on Hugging Face yet.
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for EXAONE 4.5 yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.