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LLaDA 2.0 Uni 16B

First open Apache 2.0 dLLM: MoE 16B/1B + 6.2B diffusion decoder. Unified text+vision. Released April 22, 2026.

🇨🇳 Ant Group / inclusionAI·License Apache 2.0·Context 8k tokens·Output April 2026·Fits within the 128 GB of the GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM← Catalog

01What it can do

Strengths
  • First open-source dLLM under Apache 2.0
  • Unified text+vision+generation+editing
  • Interleaved 'thinking' mode
  • Apache 2.0
Limitations to know
  • —Diffusion architecture not supported by Ollama/llama.cpp
  • —Requires Flash Attention 2 + CUDA 12.4
  • —47 GB of VRAM during full generation
  • —8k context only
Architecture
MoE 16B/1B active + Discrete Semantic Tokenizer (SigLIP-VQ) + Decoder Diffusion 6.2B + VAE
Training
Masked Token Prediction paradigm. Distilled decoder-turbo (10× acceleration, 8 steps instead of 50). SPRINT acceleration.
Ideal for
Native image generationUnified vision + textdLLM search

04Install

Install Ollama for your OS. Check the model and its quantization before downloading. Start with 4096 tokens of context, then check placement with ollama ps. A command below is not proof that a test was run on your machine.

$# HuggingFace : inclusionAI/LLaDA2.0-Uni (Flash Attn 2 + CUDA 12.4 requis)
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First download: between 2 and 40 GB depending on the selected quantization. Plan for sufficient disk space; a stable connection is recommended. Subsequent launches are instant.

02Required memory

Approximate GPU VRAM required to run this model, including 4k tokens of context overhead. For a longer context, add ~1 GB per 8k-token increment.

Q4_K_M
The lightest, ~5% loss
18 GB
Q5_K_M
Good quality/size compromise
22 GB
Q8_0
Nearly indistinguishable from FP16
30 GB
FP16
Full precision — server use
47 GB
Fallback CPU · If you don't have a GPU, allow 36 GB of RAM minimum to run this model at reduced speed.

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To run LLaDA 2.0 Uni 16B locally with Q4 quantization, you need about 18 GB of VRAM. An option to compare: GMKtec EVO-X2 64GB / 1TB (Ryzen AI Max+ 395) — leave some headroom for the system and context; check engine compatibility with the GPU.

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03Expected speed

Tokens generated per second in Q4_K_M, 4k context. Beyond 20 t/s, reading is comfortable. Below 10 t/s, that's just for testing.

Entry-level
~25t/s
GTX 1650, RX 6600, MBA M2 8GB
Mid-range
~60t/s
RTX 4060, 4070, MBP M3 Pro
High-end
~130t/s
RTX 4090, M4 Max, Radeon 7900