What are the hardware requirements for Synthetic Minstrel 14B?

Synthetic Minstrel 14B requires approximately 27.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Synthetic Minstrel 14B and how large is it?

Synthetic Minstrel 14B is developed by lodrick-the-lafted, a model with 14b 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 Synthetic Minstrel 14B?

Synthetic Minstrel 14B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Synthetic Minstrel 14B by lodrick-the-lafted — VRAM 27.6GB, 32K context

Name: Synthetic Minstrel 14B
Author: lodrick-the-lafted

Synthetic Minstrel 14B is an open-source language model by lodrick-the-lafted. Features: 14b LLM, VRAM: 27.6GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/lodrick-the-lafted/Synthetic-Minstrel-14B

Synthetic Minstrel 14B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

Literally just Synthia-7B with Mistral-7B's layers appended to the end. No finetune.

LLM Name	Synthetic Minstrel 14B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/lodrick-the-lafted/Synthetic-Minstrel-14B
Model Size	14b
Required VRAM	27.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-11
Maintainer	lodrick-the-lafted
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 7.7 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.34.0.dev0
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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