What are the hardware requirements for Daredevil 8B Abliterated?

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

Who developed Daredevil 8B Abliterated and how large is it?

Daredevil 8B Abliterated is developed by mlabonne, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Daredevil 8B Abliterated perform on standard benchmarks?

Daredevil 8B Abliterated has the following published scores: MMLU 68.99. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Daredevil 8B Abliterated by mlabonne — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Daredevil 8B Abliterated
Author: mlabonne

Daredevil 8B Abliterated is an open-source language model by mlabonne. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22, Arc: 68.6, HellaSwag: 84.4, MMLU: 69, GSM8K: 73.2.

Base model:finetune:mlabonne/d... Base model:mlabonne/daredevil-... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Daredevil-8B-abliterated

Daredevil 8B Abliterated Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

role-playing

Additional Notes

Abliterated version using failspy's notebook, based on a technique described in a specific blog post.

LLM Name	Daredevil 8B Abliterated
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Daredevil-8B-abliterated
Base Model(s)	Daredevil 8B mlabonne/Daredevil-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	mlabonne
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
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.41.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Daredevil 8B Abliterated

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Daredevil 8B Abliterated GPTQ	1	4	5 GB
Daredevil 8B Abliterated AWQ	0	6	5 GB

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UltraLong Thinking	4192K / 16.1 GB	2	3
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...otron 8B UltraLong 2M Instruct	2096K / 32.1 GB	124	18
Cthulhu 8B V1.4	1048K / 16.1 GB	10	10
...raLong 1M Instruct Abliterated	1048K / 32.1 GB	4	9
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...otron 8B UltraLong 1M Instruct	1048K / 32.1 GB	702	59
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