Lapa LLM
Lapa LLM is an open-weights language model from Ukrainian Catholic University, released October 25, 2025. Its makers disclosed about 12B parameters.
Today, we proudly present Lapa LLM — a cutting-edge open large language model based on Gemma-3-12B with a focus on Ukrainian language processing. The project is the result of many months of work by a team of Ukrainian researchers in artificial intelligence from the Ukrainian Catholic University, AGH University of …
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Can you run Lapa LLM 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 Lapa LLM yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.