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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 (19)

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

Phi-4 Multimodal

Microsoft · 2026-02-25
14Bconsumer

16GB-consumer multimodal Q&A

VerdictMultimodal

MiniCPM-V 3 8B

OpenBMB · 2025-08-14
8Bconsumer

consumer multimodal document Q&A

VerdictMultimodal

Gemma 3 12B

Google · 2025-03-12
12Bconsumer

consumer-tier multilingual chat with vision support in 'it' variant

BenchmarkVerdictMultimodal

Qwen 2.5-VL 7B

Alibaba · 2025-03-10
7Bconsumer

consumer-tier OCR + image Q&A

VerdictMultimodal

Janus-Pro 7B

DeepSeek AI · 2025-01-29
7Bconsumer

consumer multimodal with image-generation

VerdictMultimodal

InternVL 2.5 26B

OpenGVLab · 2024-12-05
26Bconsumer

permissively-licensed VLM at 24GB VRAM

VerdictMultimodal

PaliGemma 2 10B

Google · 2024-12-05
10Bconsumer

VLM fine-tuning at 24GB VRAM

VerdictMultimodal

PaliGemma 2 3B

Google · 2024-12-05
3Bconsumer

task-specific VLM fine-tuning base

VerdictMultimodal

Llama 3.2 11B Vision

Meta · 2024-09-25
11Bconsumer

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

L1.25 enrichedVerdictMultimodal

Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct

Meta · 2024-09-25
11Bconsumer

consumer-tier vision-language Llama

BenchmarkVerdictMultimodal

Molmo 7B-D

Allen Institute (AI2) · 2024-09-25
8Bconsumer

open-research VLM with UI grounding

VerdictMultimodal

Pixtral 12B

Mistral AI · 2024-09-17
12Bconsumer

consumer-tier vision-language Mistral

VerdictMultimodal

MiniCPM-V 2.6 8B

OpenBMB · 2024-08-30
8Bconsumer

consumer multimodal document Q&A

VerdictMultimodal

Qwen 2-VL 7B

Alibaba · 2024-08-29
7Bconsumer

consumer-tier multimodal — pre-2.5-VL baseline

VerdictMultimodal

LLaVA-OneVision 7B

LLaVA Team · 2024-08-06
7Bconsumer

permissively-licensed multi-image / video VLM

VerdictMultimodal

GLM-4V 9B

Zhipu AI · 2024-06-04
13.9Bconsumer

Chinese document VLM

VerdictMultimodal

LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B

LLaVA Team · 2024-01-30
7Bconsumer

consumer-tier vision-language with permissive license

VerdictMultimodal

Whisper Large v3

OpenAI · 2023-11-06
1.55Bconsumer

open speech-to-text baseline

VerdictMultimodal

Trendyol LLM Asure 12B

Trendyol
11.8Bconsumer

Turkish business workflow assistants

BenchmarkMultimodal

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