vLLM (@vllm_project) announced day-0 support for OpenBMB MiniCPM5-2B on stable vLLM: 2.6B dense with native 131K context, Think/No-Think from one checkpoint, and tool calling via vLLM’s minicpm5 parser. Built on stock LlamaForCausalLM with training data opened alongside weights.

Key Takeaways

  • ✓Engine: day-0 MiniCPM5-2B on stable vLLM.
  • ✓Capabilities: native 131K context; Think/No-Think from one checkpoint; tool calling via minicpm5 parser.
  • ✓Ecosystem: stock LlamaForCausalLM; training data opened with weights.
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