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

Verdict

Hermes 4 Llama 3.3 70B

Nous Research · 2025-12-22
70Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier instruction-tuned alternative to base Llama 3.3

Verdict

Dolphin 3 Llama 3.3 70B

Cognitive Computations · 2025-09-30
70Bdatacenter

datacenter creative / less-restricted generation

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EVA Llama 3.3 70B

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

datacenter-tier creative / narrative generation

Verdict

Qwen 2.5-VL 72B

Alibaba · 2025-03-10
72Bdatacenter

frontier-tier multimodal serving

VerdictMultimodal

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek · 2025-01-20
70Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier reasoning

Verdict

InternVL 2.5 78B

OpenGVLab · 2024-12-05
78Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier permissive VLM

VerdictMultimodal

Tulu 3 70B

Allen Institute (AI2) · 2024-11-21
70Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier open-recipe instruct

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Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

NVIDIA · 2024-10-15
70Bdatacenter

NVIDIA-fine-tuned Llama 3.1 70B

Verdict

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct

Meta · 2024-09-25
90Bdatacenter

datacenter vision-language Llama at 70B-class

VerdictMultimodal

Llama 3.2 90B Vision

Meta · 2024-09-25
90Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier multimodal serving

VerdictMultimodal

Molmo 72B

Allen Institute (AI2) · 2024-09-25
72Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier open VLM for agent UI

VerdictMultimodal

Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct

Alibaba · 2024-09-19
72Bdatacenter

production multilingual at 70B-class

Verdict

Qwen 2.5 Math 72B

Alibaba · 2024-09-19
72Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier math specialist

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Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B

NousResearch · 2024-08-15
70Bdatacenter

datacenter-tier Hermes — instruction following

Verdict

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Meta · 2024-07-23
70Bdatacenter

production self-hosted serving at the 70B class

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OpenBioLLM Llama 3 70B

Saama Technologies · 2024-04-26
70Bdatacenter

medical / clinical NLP

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