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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Qwen 3 14B
Alibaba · 2025-04-29
14Bconsumer
16GB-VRAM reasoning workloads with thinking-mode toggle
L1.25 enrichedBenchmarkVerdict
Mistral Small 3 24B
Mistral AI · 2025-01-30
24Bconsumer
consumer-tier multilingual instruction-following — Mistral's instruction-tuned baseline at 24B
L1.25 enrichedVerdict
Phi-4 14B
Microsoft · 2024-12-12
14Bconsumer
16 GB VRAM tier reasoning + chat — the right pick when 32B-class doesn't fit
L1.25 enrichedVerdict
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
Meta · 2024-09-25
11Bconsumer
consumer-tier multimodal — Llama-ecosystem migration path for vision workflows
L1.25 enrichedVerdictMultimodal
Kumru 2B
VNGRS
2.4Bconsumer
fast Turkish edge chat
L1.25 enrichedBenchmark
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