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K2-Horizon-0.9B

K2-Horizon-0.9B is a 1.1 billion-parameter dense decoder-only model with a 128 k token context window.

1.1B

Parameters in total

131,072

Context length in tokens, as published

2 GiB

Weights at the released precision

apache-2.0

Licence declared on the repository

Overview

What this model is.

K2-Horizon-0.9B is a compact reasoning model released by IFM. It is a 0.9 B-class dense decoder-only architecture trained via multi-teacher distillation on mathematics, coding, STEM and instruction-following data. The publisher describes it as suitable for tasks requiring mathematical and code reasoning within a large context.

In practice the model contains 1.1 billion parameters and accepts up to 131,072 tokens per prompt, using YaRN RoPE scaling. Weights are provided in float32 format under an Apache-2.0 licence, and the architecture has no expert layers, simplifying deployment on standard hardware.

Specification

The published shape.

RepositoryIFM/K2-Horizon-0.9B
PublisherIFM
Published2 September 2026
ArchitectureK2HorizonForCausalLM
Model typek2_horizon
Parameters1,078,285,824
Layers28
Hidden size1,536
Attention heads32, 8 key/value heads
Context length131,072 tokens
Vocabulary64,256 tokens
Weight formatfloat32
Licenceapache-2.0

Memory

How much VRAM the weights need.

Parameter count multiplied by the bytes each format uses. The key-value cache comes on top.

PrecisionWeightsNotes
bf162.0 GiBFull precision as released
fp81.0 GiB8-bit, near-lossless on most models
int40.5 GiB4-bit, smallest footprint

The cache costs 56 KiB per token at 16-bit, so the full 131,072-token context of one request needs about 7.0 GiB. Concurrency multiplies that number, not the weights.

Hardware

Which card runs it.

At the released precision, with 90% of the card given to the server and 2.5 GiB kept for the runtime. The context column is what is left for the cache on that setup.

GPUCards neededFree for cacheContext it holds
RTX 4090 24GB 1 17.1 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
RTX 5090 32GB 1 24.3 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
L40S 48GB 1 38.7 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
A100 80GB 1 67.5 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
H100 80GB 1 67.5 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
RTX PRO 6000 96GB 1 81.9 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
H200 141GB 1 122.4 GiB the full 131,072 tokens

Serving

Running it yourself.

A vLLM launch line for the shape above. Check the model card for a runtime the publisher recommends.

vllm serve IFM/K2-Horizon-0.9B \
  --max-model-len 131072 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90

Questions

The things people ask about this model.

How much GPU memory does K2-Horizon-0.9B need?

The weights take about 2 GiB at the released precision. That fits on one RTX 4090 24GB, which leaves roughly 17 GiB for the key-value cache.

What licence does K2-Horizon-0.9B use?

The repository declares apache-2.0. Read the licence text before commercial use: the name alone does not tell you what is allowed.

How long a context does it support?

The configuration allows 131,072 tokens. Whether the whole window is usable depends on the memory left for the cache, which the hardware table works out per card.

Can I use it through an API instead of hosting it?

This page is a reference, and Aiqre does not serve this model today. We deploy open-weight models on dedicated EU hardware on request, so if you want an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for it, email [email protected] with the model name and roughly what volume you expect.

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Hosting

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