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spark-darwin-17b-3way

by Charlie MC7ever/spark-darwin-17b-3way

spark-darwin-17b-3way is an open-weight model for text generation from Charlie, released under Apache License 2.0. It has 1.7B parameters and a 1,048,576-token context. At 16-bit it needs about 4.1 GB of GPU memory, which fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest prices in the SAVRN Index.

Darwin uniform-soup of 3 Spark2.5-1.7B donors (226/226 tensors verified). Agentic/tool-use + uncensored + multilingual blend. Distillation donor for the 4B program. Needs transformers==5.17.0 + trustremotecode=True.

Parameters1.7B
Context1,048,576
Weights3.4 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
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Runs On

What it takes to serve spark-darwin-17b-3way (1.7B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 3.4 GB 4.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 1.7 GB 2.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.9 GB 1.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Oct 15, 2026.

spark-darwin-17b-3way on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision

Model Card

By Charlie, published under apache-2.0, revision 26a26a42e6a6.

Darwin uniform-soup of 3 Spark2.5-1.7B donors (226/226 tensors verified). Agentic/tool-use + uncensored + multilingual blend. Distillation donor for the 4B program. Needs transformers==5.17.0 + trustremotecode=True.

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Darwin uniform-soup of 3 Spark2.5-1.7B donors (226/226 tensors verified). Agentic/tool-use + uncensored + multilingual blend. Distillation donor for the 4B program. Needs transformers==5.17.0 + trust_remote_code=True.

Configuration

Architecture
Spark2_5ForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
1,048,576
Layers
28
Hidden size
2,048
Feed-forward size
6,656
Attention heads
8
Key/value heads
2
Head dimension
256
Vocabulary size
131,072
Sliding window (tokens)
512
Model type
spark2_5

Identity and Version

Repository
MC7ever/spark-darwin-17b-3way
Publisher
Charlie
Task
Text generation
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
1.7B parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
26a26a42e6a695866bfc0dcedca20fddf9cbe24b
First published
2026-10-06
Last updated
2026-10-06

Files and Weights

12 files, 3.4 GB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 3.4 GB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 3.4 GB
Configuration5 files · 27.1 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 10.1 MB
Documentation1 file · 476 B
Other2 files · 5.8 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights3.4 GB d8ac17aa686c
config.jsonConfiguration1.9 KB —
configuration_spark.pyConfiguration5.0 KB —
darwin_report.jsonConfiguration436 B —
generation_config.jsonConfiguration296 B —
modeling_spark.pyConfiguration19.4 KB —
README.mdDocumentation476 B —
chat_template.jinjaOther4.8 KB —
darwin_W.npyOther1.0 KB 316584b8c667
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB —
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer10.1 MB —
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer402 B —

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
3.4 GB
Download from Charlie

Released by Charlie through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

  • Derived from ZZRI/Feihua-n2-1.7B
  • Derived from benzeng/Spark-X2.5-1.7B-orth-r11
  • Derived from webbrain-one/webbrain-compass-tiny-xs-v3
  • Merged from ZZRI/Feihua-n2-1.7B
  • Merged from benzeng/Spark-X2.5-1.7B-orth-r11
  • Merged from webbrain-one/webbrain-compass-tiny-xs-v3

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published3.4 GB
16-bit3.4 GB
8-bit1.7 GB
4-bit0.9 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About spark-darwin-17b-3way

How much GPU memory does spark-darwin-17b-3way need?

About 4.1 GB at 16-bit and 1 GB at 4-bit: the weights (1.7B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run spark-darwin-17b-3way on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use spark-darwin-17b-3way commercially?

Yes. spark-darwin-17b-3way is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is spark-darwin-17b-3way's context length?

1,048,576 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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