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Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Instruct is an open-weights language model from NVIDIA, released October 2024. Its published size is 8.41B parameters and a 8k-token context window. Licence: nvidia-open-model-license.

Catalogue identity notes

nvidia/Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B-Instruct @64261e0 (created 2024-10-02, licence nvidia-open-model-license). NVIDIA pruned/distilled 8B instruct model from Mistral NeMo 12B (Oct 2024). Independent rows: EuroEval English (life_in_the_uk).

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗

HF safetensors metadata 8,414,105,600 parameters.

50.3±8.3#432 of 949 LLMsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Instruct, out of 1132 with a score, then more from NVIDIA.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
560Jamba 1.5 Large AI21 Labs50±1local~839GB2024-08
561PLLuM-12B-nc-instruct (2507) PLLuM consortium (CYFRAGOVPL)50±4local~27GB2025-07
562Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Instruct NVIDIA50±8local~6.9GB2024-10
563Gemini 1.5 Flash (001) Google50±1comparison only2024-05
564Jamba Large 1.7 AI21 Labs50±15api price unknown +local~103GB2025-07
more from NVIDIA
109Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B NVIDIA69±1api $1.35/M +local~89GB2026-06
182Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B NVIDIA66±1local~20GB2026-03
198Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA65±1api $0.28/M +local~73GB2026-03

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 69% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), test split, 5-shot, accuracy83.1% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▄█▄▃ beats 86/146easy · avg 83%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 69%noisy

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Instruct · needs ~5.15 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf bartowski/Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf bartowski/Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Instruct · needs ~5.15 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B-Instruct-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Instruct · needs ~5.15 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/nvidia ↗

$ how the score was worked out · EuroEval leaderboards (result… 69%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
EuroEval leaderboards (results collection), English generative leaderboard1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 69%MIT
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 31%
weighted average= 50.3

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