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// 64d agoMODEL RELEASE
Darkc0de's Heretic-tuned 119B Mistral Small 4 drops quietly
Darkc0de's Heretic build is a decensored BF16 fork of axolotl-ai-co/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603-BF16, and the Reddit post says the real blocker for local users is still a GGUF build. The model card claims far fewer refusals than the original, but the thread is still tiny and early.
// ANALYSIS
Interesting niche release: this is mostly about behavior tuning, not a new architecture, and it only matters if the community turns it into a usable local package. Right now it's a power-user curiosity, not a default recommendation.
- –Built with Heretic v1.2.0 as a decensored fork of the official Mistral Small 4 119B base.
- –The model card says refusals fell from 98/100 on the original to 27/100 here, so the selling point is behavior, not capability jumps.
- –The 119B BF16 footprint is heavy for local runs, which makes GGUF support the practical adoption gate.
- –The visible Reddit comments skew skeptical, with criticism of coding quality and of the whole abliterated-model idea.
- –Only 520 downloads last month and no inference-provider deployment suggest this is still very early.
// TAGS
llmopen-weightsself-hostedmistral-small-4-119b-2603-heretic
DISCOVERED
64d ago
2026-03-24
PUBLISHED
64d ago
2026-03-24
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
Quiet-Owl9220