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KLM 1.6

KLM 1.6 is an open-weights language model from MinimaLabs, released November 9, 2026. It has 0.1B parameters (dense). The context window is 2K tokens.

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Lab
MinimaLabs
Released
November 9, 2026
Weights
Open apache-2.0
Parameters
0.1B dense
Context
2K
Price / M tokens
–
Epoch ECI
not yet rated

Can you run KLM 1.6 locally?

The smallest common GPU it runs on is 6 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): Q6_K, fully on GPU, roughly 580 tokens per second. 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 memoryVerdictBest quantVRAMRAMtok/s
6 GB VRAMRuns on GPUQ6_K (≈ lossless)1.1 GB–~580
8 GB VRAMRuns on GPUQ6_K (≈ lossless)1.1 GB–~670
12 GB VRAMRuns on GPUQ6_K (≈ lossless)1.1 GB–~720
16 GB VRAMRuns on GPUQ6_K (≈ lossless)1.1 GB–~790
24 GB VRAMRuns on GPUQ6_K (≈ lossless)1.1 GB–~870
32 GB VRAMRuns on GPUQ6_K (≈ lossless)1.1 GB–~930

Benchmark results

Epoch AI has not published results for KLM 1.6 yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.

Links

Hugging Face: MinimaLabs/KLM-1.6

Data updated Thu, 12 Nov 2026 09:42 UTC. Benchmarks, Capabilities Index and model announcements: Epoch AI, “Capabilities & benchmarking” and “Data on AI models” (CC BY 4.0); category scores are ModelTape's own fit on Epoch's results. Releases and prices: models.dev (MIT). Sizes and quantizations: Hugging Face. “Runs on” figures are estimates from model size, quantization and memory bandwidth (±30–50%).
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