Anansi-35B-A3B balances good instruct following, narrative reasoning, and sweet prose. Specifically for my 8gb potato, because I can't run the ~30b dense models, but maybe it can be good for your potato too? Anansi was created by combining the logical trengths of two great models via a 35/65 DARE-TIES merge, followed by a targeted (LM) head tensor interpolation to graft on better prose. I think I got the balance about right for what I was aiming for. Instruct following is much better, including with more complex instructions, most of the LM-head prose improvement comes through, and the reasoning is a little longer and still narrative/character-focused without becoming excessive. The A1…
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262,144 tokens
LucidVitality-9B is a little goer. It's a roleplay or creative focused merge of two Qwen3.5 9b variants for people with absolute potatoes, like myself. It marries the improved prose of Darkhn's Qwen3.5-9B-Animus-V13.0 with the lower looping, higher EOS exit, and slightly more coherency (compared to base) from Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-HighIQ-INSTRUCT-HERETIC-UNCENSORED of DavidAU's making. I haven't merged anything for a long time, as it's been a hard time for finetuning. They rarely increase prose quality, often deeply lose intelligence over base (even when tuned for intelligence or agentic). Base model's getting tough to beat. So it was a pleasant surprise to find two models that each…
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9.4B parameters
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Anansi-35B-A3B balances good instruct following, narrative reasoning, and sweet prose. Specifically for my 8GB potato, because I can't run the ~30B dense models, but maybe it can be good for your potato too? This is the repo for Q8 prose/style head GGUFs. The Q8-Prose versions use the same Anansi LM output head — the DARE/TIES merge head interpolated with Melody — but restored at Q80 fidelity. The idea is to preserve more of the prose/style effect by avoiding some of the precision loss that comes from quantizing the head along with the rest of the model. There are also Q8-DarkScarlett versions using the same interpolated-head approach with ReadyArt's Dark Scarlett instead of Melody, giving…
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apache-2.0
