What are the hardware requirements for MN LooseCannon 12B V2?

MN LooseCannon 12B V2 requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1000K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MN LooseCannon 12B V2 and how large is it?

MN LooseCannon 12B V2 is developed by royallab, 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 MN LooseCannon 12B V2?

MN LooseCannon 12B V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MN LooseCannon 12B V2 by royallab — VRAM 24.5GB, 1000K context

Name: MN LooseCannon 12B V2
Author: royallab

MN LooseCannon 12B V2 is an open-source language model by royallab. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 1000K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Base model:anthracite-org/magn... Base model:merge:anthracite-or... Base model:merge:nothingiisrea... Base model:merge:sao10k/mn-12b... Base model:nothingiisreal/mn-1... Base model:sao10k/mn-12b-lyra-... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Merge Mergekit Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/royallab/MN-LooseCannon-12B-v2

MN LooseCannon 12B V2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MN LooseCannon 12B V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/royallab/MN-LooseCannon-12B-v2
Base Model(s)	nothingiisreal/MN-12B-Celeste-V1.9 anthracite-org/magnum-v2.5-12b-kto MN 12B Lyra V1 nothingiisreal/MN-12B-Celeste-V1.9 anthracite-org/magnum-v2.5-12b-kto Sao10K/MN-12B-Lyra-v1
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-24
Maintainer	royallab
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.9 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	1024000
Model Max Length	1024000
Transformers Version	4.44.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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