TNG-R1T-Chimera is an experimental LLM with a faible for creative storytelling and character interaction. It is a derivate of the original TNG/DeepSeek-R1T-Chimera released in April 2025 and is available exclusively via Chutes and OpenRouter.
Characteristics and improvements include:
We think that it has a creative and pleasant personality.
It has a preliminary EQ-Bench3 value of about 1305.
It is quite a bit more intelligent than the original, albeit a slightly slower.
It is much more think-token consistent, i.e. reasoning and answer blocks are properly delineated.
Tool calling is much improved.
TNG Tech, the model authors, ask that users follow the careful guidelines that Microsoft has created for their "MAI-DS-R1" DeepSeek-based model. These guidelines are available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1).
Recent activity on R1T Chimera
Total usage per day on OpenRouter
Prompt
19.7M
Reasoning
641K
Completion
546K
Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length.