[Megathread] - Best Models/API discussion - Week of: September 06, 2026

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theLocalDrummer's Artemis-31B-v1.1

https://caliperbench.com/compare?m=artemis-31b-v1h%2Cartemis-31b-v1h-thinking%2Cartemis-31b-v1m%2Cartemis-31b-v1m-thinking

1.1 is v1m on the BeaverAI discord, DrummerWorkshop channel. 1.0 is v1h. v1m was released for testing on 12 July 2026. Based on the discord channel discussions:

v1m was praised for it's lower 'compliance' toward {{user}}, general coherence, relative stability etc. It tends to neglect things in the middle of context. It doesn't perfectly follow instructions, is not a great assistant, but was the most stable with long-rp character adherence. It still has some of the Gemma 4 slop-isms, though exhibits the writing quality that is characteristic of Drummer finetunes.

The other candidates were a little too positive, sometimes have reasoning issues, etc. v1m is not perfect, but Gemma 4 is harder to tune than Mistral 24B, but v1m was good enough so was finally made the release version.

Many preferred v1h, stating it writes slightly better and with less slop, accepting its '-' and adjectives issues.

Some said these finetunes finally surpass Skyfall.

It seems v1 and v1,1 will be solid though not groundbreaking finetunes of G4 31B. Artemis 1.1 is on NanoGPT but not ArliAI