Frontier zone · Model releases

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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Llama 4 70B

Meta · 2026-02-10
70Bdatacenter

production self-hosted serving on 2x A100 / H100

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EVA Llama 3.3 70B

EVA-Unit-01 community · 2025-08-22
70Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier creative / narrative generation

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Llama 3.3 8B Instruct

Meta · 2025-04-12
8Bconsumer

consumer-tier chat — drop-in 3.1 8B replacement

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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B

NVIDIA · 2025-04-08
8Bconsumer

consumer-tier Nemotron-Llama

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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Meta · 2024-12-06
70Bdatacenter

production self-hosted serving at the 70B class — when you need general-purpose capability above 32B but don't need frontier-tier

L1.25 enrichedVerdict

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

NVIDIA · 2024-10-15
70Bdatacenter

NVIDIA-fine-tuned Llama 3.1 70B

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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Meta · 2024-07-23
70Bdatacenter

production self-hosted serving at the 70B class

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Phind CodeLlama 34B v2

Phind · 2023-09-01
34Bworkstation

historical reference for Llama 2 coder lineage

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Hermes 4 70B FP8

NousResearch
70B

English/multilingual STEM reasoning and structured data extraction

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ALIA 40b instruct 2601

BSC-LT
40B

Spanish-region enterprise document processing and multilingual Iberian assistant apps

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OpenThaiGPT 1.0.0 Beta 13B Chat

OpenThaiGPT
13B

Basic Thai-language instruction following and Q&A

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Bielik 11B v3.0 Instruct GGUF

SpeakLeash
11B

Polish-language instruction following and document Q&A

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Bielik-11B v3.0 Instruct FP8 Dynamic

speakleash
11B

Polish-language instruction following and chat on constrained GPU hardware

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SOLAR 10.7B v1.0

upstage
10.7B

Foundation for custom fine-tuning pipelines

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Cosmos Llama 3 8B Turkish

ytu-ce-cosmos
8B

Saiga Llama3 8B GGUF

IlyaGusev
8B

Russian conversational assistant on consumer hardware

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LLM-jp 4 8B Instruct

llm-jp
8B

Japanese/English bilingual document summarization and extraction

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Gervásio 8B PTPT

PORTULAN
8B

European Portuguese text tasks where PT-BR is acceptable collateral

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LLM-jp 4 8B Thinking

llm-jp
8B

Internal Japanese-English reasoning and document processing pipelines

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Turkish Llama 8B Instruct v0.1

ytu-ce-cosmos
8B

Trendyol LLM 7B Base v0.1

Trendyol
7B

Trendyol LLM 7B Chat v0.1

Trendyol
7B

Salamandra 7B Instruct

BSC-LT
7B

Spanish and European multilingual chat prototyping

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Swallow 7B

tokyotech-llm
7B

Japanese-language fine-tuning base or research

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Salamandra 7B

BSC-LT
7B

Spanish/Catalan fine-tuning base for custom NLP pipelines

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OpenThaiGPT 7B 1.0.0 Chat

openthaigpt
7B

Thai-language instruction-following and chat

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