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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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Filtered results (7)

Models matching your filters. Clear filters by clicking “Any” on each row above, or remove individual filters via the URL.

Llama 3.3 8B Instruct

Meta · 2025-04-12
8Bconsumer

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

Verdict

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B

NVIDIA · 2025-04-08
8Bconsumer

consumer-tier Nemotron-Llama

Verdict

Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct

Meta · 2024-09-25
11Bconsumer

consumer-tier vision-language Llama

BenchmarkVerdictMultimodal

Llama 3.2 11B Vision

Meta · 2024-09-25
11Bconsumer

consumer-tier multimodal — Llama-ecosystem migration path for vision workflows

L1.25 enrichedVerdictMultimodal

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta · 2024-07-23
8Bconsumer

consumer-tier general chat — the default 8B baseline

BenchmarkVerdict

RefinedNeuro RN TR R1

RefinedNeuro
8Bconsumer

compact local reasoning baseline

Benchmark

RefinedNeuro RN TR R2

RefinedNeuro
8Bconsumer

compact local reasoning baseline

Benchmark

Going deeper

  • Ecosystem maps — structured-landscape views (memory frameworks, inference runtimes, MCP, coding agents).
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  • Frontier index — broader ecosystem-momentum view across coding agents, inference runtimes, memory systems, MCP.
  • Benchmarks — measured tokens-per-second + topology fields across hardware/model/runtime triples.