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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Mistral Medium 3 24B (dense)

Mistral AI · 2026-04-29
24Bconsumer

research / non-commercial workstation deployments

Verdict

Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI · 2026-03-08
24Bconsumer

consumer-tier multilingual instruction-following

Verdict

Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI · 2025-09-25
24Bconsumer

Apache 2.0 coding alternative to Qwen 2.5 Coder

Verdict

Mistral Saba 24B

Mistral AI · 2025-02-17
24Bconsumer

Arabic / South-Asian multilingual

Verdict

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

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral AI · 2024-10-16
8Bconsumer

consumer-tier long-context — research only

Verdict

Pixtral 12B

Mistral AI · 2024-09-17
12Bconsumer

consumer-tier vision-language Mistral

VerdictMultimodal

Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct

Mistral AI / NVIDIA · 2024-07-18
12Bconsumer

consumer-tier long-context multilingual

BenchmarkVerdict

Codestral Mamba 7B

Mistral AI · 2024-07-16
7Bconsumer

long-context coding workloads where memory matters

Verdict

Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3

Mistral AI · 2024-05-22
7Bconsumer

lightweight European-multilingual chat

BenchmarkVerdict

Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI
14Bconsumer

general chat with vision on 16GB GPUs

Multimodal

Turkcell LLM 7B v1

Turkcell
7.4Bconsumer

commercial Turkish enterprise chat

Benchmark

Mistral Turkish v2 (brooqs)

brooqs
7.2Bconsumer

Turkish Mistral chat when Ollama convenience matters

Benchmark

Malhajar Mistral 7B Turkish

malhajar
7.2Bconsumer

Turkish long-context chat on consumer GPUs

Benchmark

Kumru 2B

VNGRS
2.4Bconsumer

fast Turkish edge chat

L1.25 enrichedBenchmark

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