What are the hardware requirements for Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic?

Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic and how large is it?

Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic is developed by e12ex2, a model with 8b 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 Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic?

Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic by e12ex2 — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic
Author: e12ex2

Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic is an open-source language model by e12ex2. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Arxiv:2504.21039 Abliterated Base model:fdtn-ai/foundation-... Base model:finetune:fdtn-ai/fo... Conversational Cybersecurity En Endpoints compatible Gguf Heretic Instruct Llama Llama-3.1 Region:us Safetensors Security Sharded Tensorflow Threat-intelligence Uncensored

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/e12ex2/Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct-heretic

Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Foundation Sec 8B Instruct Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/e12ex2/Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct-heretic
Base Model(s)	Foundation Sec 8B Instruct fdtn-ai/Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	e12ex2
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	128384

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