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Drummer proudly presents...

Rocinante X 12B v1 🚀

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Rocinante's back - stronger than ever! A worthy successor to the legendary Rocinante 12B v1.1 from over a year ago!

What's New?

Like all other 4.0 gen models from me, this one focuses on RP.
Updated prose, better writing, fun dialogue, and robust roleplaying!

Usage

Mistral v3 Tekken (NOT v7, REMOVE [SYSTEM_PROMPT])
or Metharme
<thinking> </thinking> works
No thinking also works

👁 Screenshot 2026-01-25 at 7.39.16 PM

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(Mistral v3 Tekken has no whitespace and no [SYSTEM_PROMPT])

Description

Been toying with it a little more, it's very good for its size, maybe the best in the 12b bracket. Still has a good amount of gpt-isms and recurring "it's not just x, it's y" type formatting that makes me want to remove my eyes with a rusty fork, but other than that it's good ; the smarts don't hinder on the roleplay and vice versa, and in over 90% of usecases it's better and more efficient to use this over the new anubis for instance.

Honestly like usual Rocinante feels good to RP with it is creative and for me has been adhering to the characters pretty well.

I'm testing on Q8 using a janky voice convo pipeline, and it's sticking to its character and instructions so far after 40+ voice messages of back and forth.

This is really good, thank you forall the effort put into it!

It's absurdly good. I'm so used to solid 24B finetunes that whenever I try a 12B one, I lose interest very quickly. This is the only 12B I've encountered that I'll probably end up having in my rotation alongside 24B models. Dunno wtf you did to make good old Nemo sing like this 😄 .

12b usually feels either much more shallow or too incoherent. This one very often surprises me with more depth and creativity without messing up a scene. It still does mess up at times but it's so much more robust while also managing to be creatively unpredictable.

It feels bigger than 12B. That is all I can say. I love this.

I'm loving it. It's great for a 12B. Using it instead of most of the 24B/30B I usually use because I can pump the context up huge with it.

I feel like it's getting closer to the early Cydonia experience. While it can't match the detailed feel of 24b, can grasp the general information. The scene transitions between SFW and NSFW are also very smooth. Compared to the original Nemo, it's definitely a major improvement.

With my main rig currently down for maintenance/upgrade I also gave this one a spin on my laptop (16gb unified) and am very pleasantly surprised as well. Even in the instances when the wording is poor/shallower than what a larger model produces, it still feels like the logical backbone almost always remains solid and does not derail. This is the first sub 24b creative model I actually enjoyed using.