Vinci Piccolo is a small, open-weight chat model fine-tuned for character and honesty — the first model in the Vinci family from SimpleDirect. The character you'd want in an AI, open and small enough to run yourself. Try it: chat app — free · ollama run hf.co/simpledirect/Vinci-Piccolo-1.0-GGUF Weight-file size is not a runtime-memory requirement — model loading, KV cache, context length and batching all need memory beyond the weights. See Hardware requirements below for the figures we do give. Most fine-tuning optimizes for capability. Vinci Piccolo is fine-tuned for something else: a consistent character and an honest disposition. It is trained against a written, public Constitution that…


