What are the hardware requirements for LoyalMaid 12B?

LoyalMaid 12B 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 LoyalMaid 12B and how large is it?

LoyalMaid 12B is developed by yamatazen, 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 LoyalMaid 12B?

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

LoyalMaid 12B by yamatazen — VRAM 24.5GB, 1000K context

Name: LoyalMaid 12B
Author: yamatazen

LoyalMaid 12B is an open-source language model by yamatazen. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 1000K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Base model:lambent/arsenic-nem... Base model:lambent/gilded-arse... Base model:nbeerbower/mistral-... Base model:neversleep/lumimaid... Conversational Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/yamatazen/LoyalMaid-12B

LoyalMaid 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LoyalMaid 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/yamatazen/LoyalMaid-12B
Base Model(s)	NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B Mistral Nemo Gutenberg 12B V4 Gilded Arsenic 12B Arsenic Nemo Unleashed 12B NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B nbeerbower/mistral-nemo-gutenberg-12B-v4 Lambent/Gilded-Arsenic-12B Lambent/arsenic-nemo-unleashed-12B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	yamatazen
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
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	1024000
Model Max Length	1024000
Transformers Version	4.49.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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