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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DeepSeek Coder V3

DeepSeek AI · 2026-02-08

33Bworkstation

workstation coding alternative to Qwen 2.5 Coder

Verdict

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 3 32B

DeepSeek AI · 2025-11-15

32Bworkstation

workstation reasoning with Qwen 3 base improvements

Verdict

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek · 2025-01-20

32Bworkstation

single-machine reasoning — the canonical local R1 deployment

L1.25 enrichedVerdict

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