What are the hardware requirements for Kolibri 1 Heretic?

Kolibri 1 Heretic requires approximately 78.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kolibri 1 Heretic and how large is it?

Kolibri 1 Heretic is developed by iSkye, a model with 78.1b 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 Kolibri 1 Heretic?

Kolibri 1 Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kolibri 1 Heretic by iSkye — VRAM 78.8GB, 256K context

Name: Kolibri 1 Heretic
Author: iSkye

Kolibri 1 Heretic is an open-source language model by iSkye. Features: 78.1b LLM, VRAM: 78.8GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Arxiv:2406.11717 Arxiv:2512.11614 Arxiv:2601.17858 Abliterated Base model:aleph-alpha/kolibri... Base model:finetune:aleph-alph... Conversational Custom code De Decensored En Fp8 Heretic Kolibri1 Moe Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Uncensored Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/iSkye/Kolibri-1-heretic

Kolibri 1 Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kolibri 1 Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/iSkye/Kolibri-1-heretic
Base Model(s)	Kolibri 1 Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
Model Size	78.1b
Required VRAM	78.8 GB
Updated	2026-10-08
Maintainer	iSkye
Model Type	kolibri1
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-16 5.0 GB: 2-of-16 5.0 GB: 3-of-16 5.0 GB: 4-of-16 5.0 GB: 5-of-16 5.0 GB: 6-of-16 5.0 GB: 7-of-16 5.0 GB: 8-of-16 5.0 GB: 9-of-16 5.0 GB: 10-of-16 5.0 GB: 11-of-16 5.0 GB: 12-of-16 5.0 GB: 13-of-16 5.0 GB: 14-of-16 5.0 GB: 15-of-16 3.8 GB: 16-of-16
Supported Languages	de en
Model Architecture	Kolibri1ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.18.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Kolibri 1 Heretic

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Kolibri 1	256K / 78.8 GB	5775	775
Kolibri 1 BF16	256K / 156.3 GB	1058	52
Kolibri 1 Mlx Mixed 4 8 Bit	256K / 44.9 GB	1341	5
Kolibri 1	256K / 78.8 GB	107	1
Kolibri 1 MLX 3bit	256K / 35.1 GB	1126	3
Kolibri 1 MLX 4bit	256K / 44.1 GB	955	3
Kolibri 1 MLX 6bit	256K / 63.1 GB	944	2
Kolibri 1 Mlx 4bit	256K / 43.7 GB	615	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than iSkye/Kolibri-1-heretic.