What are the hardware requirements for K2 Horizon 7B Heretic?

K2 Horizon 7B Heretic requires approximately 18 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 512K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed K2 Horizon 7B Heretic and how large is it?

K2 Horizon 7B Heretic is developed by Avicennasis, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate K2 Horizon 7B Heretic?

K2 Horizon 7B Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

K2 Horizon 7B Heretic by Avicennasis — VRAM 18GB, 512K context

Name: K2 Horizon 7B Heretic
Author: Avicennasis

K2 Horizon 7B Heretic is an open-source language model by Avicennasis. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 18GB, Context: 512K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

Abliterated Base model:finetune:ifm/k2-hor... Base model:ifm/k2-horizon-7b Conversational Custom code En Heretic K2-horizon K2 horizon Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Uncensored Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Avicennasis/K2-Horizon-7B-heretic

K2 Horizon 7B Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	K2 Horizon 7B Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Avicennasis/K2-Horizon-7B-heretic
Base Model(s)	K2 Horizon 7B IFM/K2-Horizon-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	18 GB
Updated	2026-10-07
Maintainer	Avicennasis
Model Type	k2_horizon
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 3.1 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	K2HorizonForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	524288
Model Max Length	524288
Transformers Version	5.18.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|ifm\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	250624

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Best Alternatives to K2 Horizon 7B Heretic

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
K2 Horizon 7B	512K / 18.5 GB	590	56
K2 Horizon 7B Uno Merged	512K / 18 GB	475	2
BetterWright K2 Horizon 7B Uno	512K / 18 GB	168	1
K2 Horizon 7B Uno OQ6e	512K / 7.5 GB	348	1
K2 Horizon 7B OQ6e	512K / 7.5 GB	352	2
K2 Horizon 7B FP8	512K / 11.1 GB	185	6
K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit	512K / 5.1 GB	375	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Avicennasis/K2-Horizon-7B-heretic.