What are the hardware requirements for Mistral Heretica 12B?

Mistral Heretica 12B requires approximately 23.8 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 Mistral Heretica 12B and how large is it?

Mistral Heretica 12B is developed by mrcuddle, a model with 12b 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 Mistral Heretica 12B?

Mistral Heretica 12B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Mistral Heretica 12B by mrcuddle — VRAM 23.8GB, 128K context

Name: Mistral Heretica 12B
Author: mrcuddle

Mistral Heretica 12B is an open-source language model by mrcuddle. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 23.8GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Merged Model Arxiv:2212.04089 Base model:mistralai/mistral-n... Base model:muxodious/mistral-n... Base model:neversleep/lumimaid... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mrcuddle/Mistral-Heretica-12B

Mistral Heretica 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Mistral Heretica 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mrcuddle/Mistral-Heretica-12B
Base Model(s)	NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 ... Instruct 2407 Absolute Heresy NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 MuXodious/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407-absolute-heresy
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	23.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-12
Maintainer	mrcuddle
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.3 GB: 1-of-25 1.3 GB: 2-of-25 1.0 GB: 3-of-25 0.9 GB: 4-of-25 0.9 GB: 5-of-25 0.9 GB: 6-of-25 1.0 GB: 7-of-25 0.9 GB: 8-of-25 0.9 GB: 9-of-25 0.9 GB: 10-of-25 1.0 GB: 11-of-25 0.9 GB: 12-of-25 0.9 GB: 13-of-25 0.9 GB: 14-of-25 1.0 GB: 15-of-25 0.9 GB: 16-of-25 0.9 GB: 17-of-25 0.9 GB: 18-of-25 1.0 GB: 19-of-25 0.9 GB: 20-of-25 0.9 GB: 21-of-25 0.9 GB: 22-of-25 1.0 GB: 23-of-25 0.9 GB: 24-of-25 0.8 GB: 25-of-25
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072

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