What are the hardware requirements for NightWind 12B?

NightWind 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 NightWind 12B and how large is it?

NightWind 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 NightWind 12B?

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

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

Name: NightWind 12B
Author: yamatazen

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

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Base model:elizezen/himeyuri-v... Base model:humanllms/human-lik... Base model:inflatebot/mn-12b-m... Base model:jtatman/mistral nem... Base model:lambent/gilded-arse... Base model:nbeerbower/mistral-... Base model:nbeerbower/mistral-... Base model:neversleep/lumimaid... Base model:pocketdoc/dans-pers... Base model:thedrummer/rocinant... Chatml Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Ja Lora Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

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

NightWind 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NightWind 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/yamatazen/NightWind-12B
Base Model(s)	NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B ...ike Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 ...tral Nemo 12B Abliterated LORA Mistral Nemo Gutenberg 12B V4 Elizezen/Himeyuri-v0.1-12B TheDrummer/Rocinante-12B-v1.1 MN 12B Mag Mell R1 Gilded Arsenic 12B PocketDoc/Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.1.0-12b ... 12b Reasoning Psychology Lora NeverSleep/Lumimaid-v0.2-12B HumanLLMs/Human-Like-Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 nbeerbower/Mistral-Nemo-12B-abliterated-LORA nbeerbower/mistral-nemo-gutenberg-12B-v4 Elizezen/Himeyuri-v0.1-12B TheDrummer/Rocinante-12B-v1.1 inflatebot/MN-12B-Mag-Mell-R1 Lambent/Gilded-Arsenic-12B PocketDoc/Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.1.0-12b jtatman/mistral_nemo_12b_reasoning_psychology_lora
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	yamatazen
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
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 ja
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	1024000
Model Max Length	1024000
Transformers Version	4.49.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
LoRA Model	Yes
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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...r Nemo 12B Instruct R 21 09 24	1000K / 24.5 GB	396277	141
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Qliphoth 12B V1	1000K / 24.5 GB	26	2
SauerkrautLM Nemo 12B Instruct	1000K / 24.5 GB	1473	22
Magnum V4 12B	1000K / 24.5 GB	1116	54
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...g M Claude Opus High Reasoning	1000K / 24.5 GB	82	3
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ChatWaifu 12B V2.0	1000K / 24.5 GB	175	22
Mistral Nemo Bophades 12B	1000K / 24.5 GB	18	9

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than yamatazen/NightWind-12B.