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// 73d agoOPENSOURCE RELEASE
Qwen-Claude 9B uncensored distill GGUF drops
A community member on r/LocalLLaMA released a GGUF model that merges an uncensored Qwen 3.5 9B checkpoint with a Claude Opus 4.6 reasoning distillation, targeting local inference users who want creative, refusal-free output. The merge extracts modified tensors from an aggressive uncensoring fork and combines them with a Claude-distilled base, with thinking disabled by default via a patched chat template.
// ANALYSIS
The LocalLLaMA community keeps proving that model merging is a legitimate alternative to full fine-tuning for capability and alignment modifications — and this release is a textbook example of iterative community remixing.
- –Tensor-diff merging (extracting only the modified weights from the uncensored fork) is a cleaner approach than naive SLERP, preserving more of the reasoning distillation from the Claude base
- –Disabling the thinking chain by default via the GGUF chat template is a practical UX decision for roleplay and image-prompt use cases where CoT output is noise
- –The model targets RTX 3060 12GB users — a very common hobbyist GPU — making this a real run-anywhere release, not a demo
- –Score of 120 with 23 comments on LocalLLaMA suggests genuine community interest, not spam
- –No eval benchmarks provided; "zero refusals and creative responses" is anecdotal — YMMV depending on use case
// TAGS
llmopen-weightsopen-sourcefine-tuningself-hosted
DISCOVERED
73d ago
2026-03-15
PUBLISHED
73d ago
2026-03-15
RELEVANCE
5/ 10
AUTHOR
EvilEnginer