diff --git a/llama_toolchain/cli/download.py b/llama_toolchain/cli/download.py
index e2a709c6b..1bfa89fc6 100644
--- a/llama_toolchain/cli/download.py
+++ b/llama_toolchain/cli/download.py
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ def setup_download_parser(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--model-id",
-        choices=[x.descriptor() for x in models],
         required=False,
+        help="See `llama model list` or `llama model list --show-all` for the list of available models",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--hf-token",
diff --git a/llama_toolchain/cli/model/list.py b/llama_toolchain/cli/model/list.py
index cbbed7e54..f989260ab 100644
--- a/llama_toolchain/cli/model/list.py
+++ b/llama_toolchain/cli/model/list.py
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ class ModelList(Subcommand):
             "Model Descriptor",
             "HuggingFace Repo",
             "Context Length",
-            "Hardware Requirements",
         ]
 
         rows = []
@@ -46,15 +45,12 @@ class ModelList(Subcommand):
             if not args.show_all and not model.is_featured:
                 continue
 
-            req = model.hardware_requirements
-
             descriptor = model.descriptor()
             rows.append(
                 [
                     descriptor,
                     model.huggingface_repo,
                     f"{model.max_seq_length // 1024}K",
-                    f"{req.gpu_count} GPU{'s' if req.gpu_count > 1 else ''}, each >= {req.memory_gb_per_gpu}GB VRAM",
                 ]
             )
         print_table(
diff --git a/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/config.py b/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/config.py
index d2e601680..a0bbc5820 100644
--- a/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/config.py
+++ b/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/config.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from typing import Optional
 from llama_models.datatypes import ModelFamily
 
 from llama_models.schema_utils import json_schema_type
-from llama_models.sku_list import all_registered_models
+from llama_models.sku_list import all_registered_models, resolve_model
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, field_validator
 
@@ -41,3 +41,17 @@ class MetaReferenceImplConfig(BaseModel):
                 f"Unknown model: `{model}`. Choose from [\n\t{model_list}\n]"
             )
         return model
+
+    @property
+    def model_parallel_size(self) -> int:
+        # HUGE HACK ALERT: this will be fixed when we move inference configuration
+        # to ModelsRegistry and we can explicitly ask for `model_parallel_size`
+        # as configuration there
+        gpu_count = 1
+        resolved = resolve_model(self.model)
+        assert resolved is not None
+        descriptor = resolved.descriptor().lower()
+        if "-70b" in descriptor or "-405b" in descriptor:
+            gpu_count = 8
+
+        return gpu_count
diff --git a/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/generation.py b/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/generation.py
index 068b3a125..d13b9570d 100644
--- a/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/generation.py
+++ b/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/generation.py
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ class Llama:
         if not torch.distributed.is_initialized():
             torch.distributed.init_process_group("nccl")
 
-        model_parallel_size = 1
+        model_parallel_size = config.model_parallel_size
+
         if not model_parallel_is_initialized():
             initialize_model_parallel(model_parallel_size)
 
diff --git a/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/model_parallel.py b/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/model_parallel.py
index 0375fe7ab..833f99efd 100644
--- a/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/model_parallel.py
+++ b/llama_toolchain/inference/meta_reference/model_parallel.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class LlamaModelParallelGenerator:
 
     def __enter__(self):
         self.group = ModelParallelProcessGroup(
-            1,
+            self.config.model_parallel_size,
             init_model_cb=partial(init_model_cb, self.config),
         )
         self.group.start()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 106297f09..45ca7ed06 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ blobfile
 fire
 httpx
 huggingface-hub
-llama-models>=0.0.14
+llama-models>=0.0.16
 pydantic
 requests
 termcolor
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1b0792a20..7273bee51 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def read_requirements():
 
 setup(
     name="llama_toolchain",
-    version="0.0.14",
+    version="0.0.16",
     author="Meta Llama",
     author_email="llama-oss@meta.com",
     description="Llama toolchain",