The frontier of open-weight model releases
Open-weight model releases tracked by RunLocalAI — recent additions, rising families, distill chains, multimodal and reasoning waves. Each card links into the catalog with authority badges (L1.25 enriched · benchmark-backed · verdict) so you can scan editorial coverage at a glance.
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Mistral Medium 3 24B (dense)
research / non-commercial workstation deployments
Granite 3.3 8B
enterprise tool-calling on IBM stacks
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
consumer-tier multilingual instruction-following
Phi-4 Multimodal
16GB-consumer multimodal Q&A
Nemotron 3 Nano 9B
NVIDIA-stack tool-calling agents
Nemotron 3 Nano (30B-A3B)
NVIDIA-tuned consumer-tier general
DeepSeek V3 Lite (16B MoE)
consumer-tier MoE inference
EXAONE 3.5 8B
consumer-tier Korean workloads
InternLM 3 8B
Chinese-language consumer workloads
Devstral Small 2 24B
Apache 2.0 coding alternative to Qwen 2.5 Coder
Yi Coder 9B
8GB-VRAM coding
Qwen 3 7B
consumer-tier reasoning on 8GB+ GPUs
MiniCPM-V 3 8B
consumer multimodal document Q&A
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B
permissively-licensed embeddings at 8B
Qwen 3 8B
consumer-tier reasoning toggle
Granite 3 MoE (3B active)
consumer-tier enterprise MoE
Llama 3.3 8B Instruct
consumer-tier chat — drop-in 3.1 8B replacement
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B
consumer-tier Nemotron-Llama
DeepSeek R1 Distill Mistral 24B
consumer-tier reasoning with Mistral instruction lineage
Qwen 2.5-VL 7B
consumer-tier OCR + image Q&A
Granite 3.2 8B
enterprise tool-calling on IBM stacks
Mistral Saba 24B
Arabic / South-Asian multilingual
Mistral Small 3 24B
consumer-tier multilingual instruction-following — Mistral's instruction-tuned baseline at 24B
Dolphin 3.0 Mistral 24B
consumer-tier creative / less-restricted generation
Janus-Pro 7B
consumer multimodal with image-generation
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
consumer-tier reasoning at 14B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
consumer-tier reasoning on 8GB+ GPUs
Falcon 3 10B
Arabic-language workloads
Falcon 3 7B Instruct
consumer-tier multilingual
Phi-4 14B
16 GB VRAM tier reasoning + chat — the right pick when 32B-class doesn't fit
InternVL 2.5 26B
permissively-licensed VLM at 24GB VRAM
PaliGemma 2 10B
VLM fine-tuning at 24GB VRAM
OLMo 2 13B
reproducibility / academic research
Tulu 3 8B
fully-open instruction-following research baseline
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Instruct
consumer-tier coding at 8GB VRAM
OpenCoder 8B
academic / reproducibility-sensitive coding research
Baichuan 4 13B
Chinese-language consumer workloads — alternative to GLM
Granite 3.0 8B Instruct
enterprise-friendly Apache 2.0 baseline
Ministral 8B Instruct
consumer-tier long-context — research only
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
consumer-tier multimodal — Llama-ecosystem migration path for vision workflows
Molmo 7B-D
open-research VLM with UI grounding
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
16GB-VRAM general chat with multilingual depth
Qwen 2.5 Math 7B
consumer-tier math problem solving
Pixtral 12B
consumer-tier vision-language Mistral
NV-Embed v2
research-grade embeddings
MiniCPM-V 2.6 8B
consumer multimodal document Q&A
Qwen 2-VL 7B
consumer-tier multimodal — pre-2.5-VL baseline
Falcon Mamba 7B
long-context inference where memory matters
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