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    AMD Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think

    Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/amd/Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think
    GitHub: https://github.com/AMD-AGI/Instella-MoE
    Website: https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/instella-moe/README.html

    Developer: AMD
    Released: July 2026
    Parameters: 16B total, 2.8B active
    Context: 32,768 tokens
    Architecture: decoder-only MoE, Gated Multi-head Latent Attention, FarSkip-Collective connectivity
    License: Research RAIL
    Modalities: Text
    Formats: safetensors
    On disk: 31.73GB safetensors

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      Cisco Antares

      Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/fdtn-ai/antares-1b, https://huggingface.co/fdtn-ai/antares-350m
      Website: https://cisco-foundation-ai.github.io/antares/
      Announcement: https://cisco-foundation-ai.github.io/blogs/antares-beyond-vlocbench/

      Developer: Cisco Foundation AI
      Released: July 2026
      Variants: 1b, 350m
      Parameters: 1B / 350M
      Architecture: fine-tuned from IBM Granite 4.0, GraniteMoEHybrid
      License: Apache 2.0
      Modalities: Text
      Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop, Edge device
      Formats: safetensors
      On disk: 1b: 3.67GB safetensors / 350m: 0.70GB safetensors

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        AI9Stars G9v3-3B

        Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ai9stars/G9v3-3B
        GitHub: https://github.com/AI9Stars

        Developer: AI9Stars
        Parameters: ~3B
        Context: 131,072 tokens
        Architecture: dense causal LM, LlamaForCausalLM
        License: Apache 2.0
        Modalities: Text
        Formats: safetensors
        On disk: 5.99GB safetensors

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          Poolside Laguna XS 2.1

          Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1, https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF
          Website: https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-xs-2-1

          Developer: Poolside
          Released: July 2026
          Variants: BF16, FP8, NVFP4, INT4; GGUF BF16, Q4_K_M
          Parameters: 33B total, 3B active
          Context: 262,144 tokens
          Architecture: MoE, 40 layers: 10 global-attention + 30 sliding-window-attention; 256 experts + 1 shared expert
          License: OpenMDW-1.1
          Modalities: Text
          Runs on: Mac with 36GB RAM
          Formats: safetensors, GGUF
          On disk: 20.27GB Q4_K_M GGUF / 66.89GB BF16 safetensors

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            Meta Muse Glimmer-30B

            Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B
            Announcement: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model
            Technical report: https://research.meta.ai/static/muse-glimmer-methodology

            Developer: Meta Superintelligence Lab
            Released: August 2026
            Parameters: 29.6B total, including perception encoder
            Context: 131,072+ tokens
            Architecture: Dense causal transformer with ViT-G/14 perception encoder; 52 layers, GQA, SwiGLU, RoPE
            License: Apache 2.0
            Modalities: Text + Image
            Runs on: MacBook M4 Max/M5 Max, RTX 5090; 24GB+ memory with 4-bit weights
            Formats: BF16 safetensors, 4-bit quantized weights
            On disk: 17GB K-Quant

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              webAI TwIL-LM

              Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/webAI-Official/TwIL-LM, https://huggingface.co/webAI-Official/TwIL-LM3
              Website: https://www.webai.com/blog/webai-releases-twil-lm-a-family-of-formal-logic-models-that-outreason-a-120b-model-and-run-on-an-iphone

              Developer: webAI Intelligence Lab
              Released: August 2026
              Variants: TwIL-LM 1.7B, TwIL-LM3 3B
              Parameters: 1.7B: 1.78B total, 1.71B backbone + 72M LoRA / 3B: 3B
              Context: 1.7B: 8,192 tokens / 3B: 65,536 tokens
              Architecture: 1.7B: SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct base, dense Llama, 24 layers, 32 heads, LoRA rank 64 SFT / 3B: SmolLM3-3B base, dense, 36 layers, GQA 16Q/4KV, NoPE every 4th layer; LoRA SFT, checkpoint fusion, WiSE-FT interpolation, GRPO reinforcement learning
              License: webAI Non-Commercial License ver. 1.0
              Modalities: Text
              Runs on: 1.7B: Smartphone, Laptop / 3B: Laptop, 4GB VRAM or CPU
              Formats: 1.7B: merged GGUF Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q8_0, f16 / 3B: safetensors, GGUF Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, F16
              On disk: 1.7B: 1.06GB Q4_K_M / 3B: 1.92GB Q4_K_M

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                Ling 3.0

                Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash, https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny, https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny-int4, https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny-fp8
                GitHub: https://github.com/inclusionAI/Ling
                X: https://x.com/AntLingAGI/status/2080351022028095681
                Website: https://www.ant-ling.com/en
                Docs: https://github.com/inclusionAI/ling-cookbook

                Developer: Ant Group, InclusionAI
                Released: July 2026
                Variants: Ling-3.0-flash, Ling-3.0-tiny
                Parameters: flash: 124B total, 5.1B active / tiny: 7.9B total, 1.3B active
                Context: flash: 262,144 tokens / tiny: 131,072 tokens, 262,144 with YaRN
                Architecture: BailingMoE hybrid; flash: linear KDA + MLA attention with sparse MoE / tiny: 3:1 KDA to MLA blocks, 128 routed experts, 8 routed + 1 shared active
                License: MIT
                Modalities: Text
                Runs on: flash: NVIDIA DGX Spark / tiny: Laptop, 48GB unified memory
                Formats: safetensors BF16, safetensors FP8, safetensors INT4, GGUF Q4_K_M
                On disk: flash: 60.5GB Q4_K_M GGUF, 254.98GB BF16 safetensors / tiny: 5.81GB INT4, 8.41GB FP8, 15.79GB BF16 safetensors

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                  Qwen3.8

                  Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
                  GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3
                  X: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2088280182356611304
                  Website: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8

                  Developer: Alibaba Cloud, Qwen team
                  Released: August 2026
                  Parameters: 27B
                  Context: 262,144 tokens
                  Architecture: Qwen3.5 foundation, dense native vision-language model; hybrid linear + full attention
                  License: Apache 2.0
                  Modalities: Text + Image + Video
                  Runs on: Laptop, 24GB+ unified memory, estimated / Desktop GPU
                  Formats: safetensors BF16, safetensors FP8, GGUF and MLX community quantizations
                  On disk: 16.05GB MLX 4-bit / 30.87GB FP8 safetensors / 55.56GB BF16 safetensors

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                    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

                    Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16, https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4
                    GitHub: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron
                    Website: https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b

                    Developer: NVIDIA
                    Released: August 2026
                    Variants: Instruct, Base, DSpark and DFlash speculative drafters
                    Parameters: 30B total, 3B active
                    Context: 1,048,576 tokens
                    Architecture: hybrid LatentMoE interleaving Mamba-2, MoE and attention; 52 layers, 128 routed experts, 6 active, 32Q/2KV heads, Multi-Token Prediction
                    License: OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1
                    Modalities: Text
                    Runs on: Desktop GPU, Edge device, DGX Spark; NVIDIA only
                    Formats: safetensors BF16, safetensors NVFP4, GGUF community conversion
                    On disk: 17.82GB NVFP4 safetensors / 31.58GB BF16 safetensors

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                      Google DiffusionGemma

                      Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it
                      GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemma
                      Website: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/diffusiongemma
                      Announcement: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/

                      Developer: Google DeepMind
                      Released: June 2026
                      Parameters: 25.2B total, 3.8B active
                      Context: 256,000 tokens
                      Architecture: discrete text diffusion on the Gemma 4 26B A4B MoE foundation; autoregressive encoder prefills the prompt into a KV cache, decoder applies bidirectional attention over a 256-token canvas, block-autoregressive multi-canvas sampling; 30 layers, 8 active of 128 experts plus 1 shared, 1,024 sliding window, 550M vision encoder
                      License: Apache 2.0
                      Modalities: Text + Image + Video in, Text out
                      Runs on: Desktop GPU, 18GB+ VRAM
                      Formats: safetensors
                      On disk: 51.65GB safetensors

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                        IBM Granite Swash

                        Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-swash-2b, https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-swash-3b-a600m
                        GitHub: https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-language-models

                        Developer: IBM Granite Team
                        Released: July 2026
                        Variants: SWASH-2B, SWASH-3B-A600M
                        Parameters: 2B / 3B total, 600M active
                        Context: 8,192 tokens
                        Architecture: sliding window attention with learnable per-head attention sinks, LSE-scaled; 2B: dense decoder-only, 24 layers, 7 full-attention + 17 sliding-window layers, window 128, GQA, SwiGLU, RoPE, RMSNorm / 3B-A600M: MoE, 28 layers, 48 experts, 4 routed active
                        License: Apache 2.0
                        Modalities: Text
                        Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop, Edge device
                        Formats: safetensors
                        On disk: 2B: 4.29GB safetensors / 3B-A600M: 6.04GB safetensors

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                          IBM Granite Vision 4.1

                          Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-vision-4.1-4b, https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-vision-4.1-4b-GGUF
                          GitHub: https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-vision-models
                          Website: https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/models/vision
                          Announcement: https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models

                          Developer: IBM
                          Released: April 2026
                          Parameters: 4B total, Granite 4.1 3B language model plus vision encoder and projectors
                          Context: 131,072 tokens
                          Architecture: SigLIP2 so400m patch16-384 vision encoder over 384x384 image tiles, windowed Q-Former projectors compressing each 4x4 patch window to 2x2 tokens, and a Granite 4.1 3B language model with rank-256 LoRA across all self-attention projections
                          License: Apache 2.0
                          Modalities: Text + Image
                          Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop, Edge device
                          Formats: safetensors, GGUF Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, bf16, with f16 mmproj
                          On disk: 2.10GB Q4_K_M plus 1.16GB f16 mmproj / 6.81GB bf16

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                            Microsoft Mage-VL

                            Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Mage-VL
                            GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/Mage
                            Website: https://microsoft.github.io/Mage/vl/
                            Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24904

                            Developer: Microsoft Mage Team
                            Released: July 2026
                            Parameters: 4B
                            Context: 262,144 tokens
                            Architecture: Mage-ViT codec-native visual encoder trained from scratch, 24 layers, feeding a two-layer MLP projector into a Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 causal decoder; separate cognition gate for proactive streaming
                            License: Apache 2.0
                            Modalities: Text + Image + Video
                            Runs on: Laptop, 12GB+ memory at BF16, estimated / Desktop GPU
                            Formats: safetensors, bundled streaming gate and neural codec
                            On disk: 9.48GB safetensors

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                              Cohere Labs North Micro Vision

                              Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct
                              Technical report: https://huggingface.co/blog/CohereLabs/meet-north-micro-vision-instruct

                              Developer: Cohere Labs
                              Released: August 2026
                              Parameters: 2.4B total, 2B language model + 400M vision encoder
                              Context: 128,000 tokens, multimodal validated to 8,192
                              Architecture: custom native-resolution vision encoder with DeepStack patch embeddings injected into early decoder layers, projector, and the Command A+ style North Micro LLM: three sliding-window attention layers with RoPE plus one global layer without positional embeddings
                              License: Apache 2.0
                              Modalities: Text + Image
                              Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop, Edge device, with quantization
                              Formats: safetensors BF16, MLX 4-bit and 8-bit community conversions
                              On disk: 4.97GB BF16 safetensors

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                                Cactus Compute Needle 2

                                Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Cactus-Compute/needle2
                                GitHub: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
                                X: https://x.com/cactuscompute/status/2086865960669983035
                                Website: https://cactuscompute.com/needle

                                Developer: Cactus Compute
                                Released: August 2026
                                Parameters: 45M
                                Context: 2,048 tokens
                                Architecture: Simple Attention Network, 27 layers, hidden 512, 8Q/4KV GQA, Hadamard MLP, engram sites, CQ2 quantization at 2.2 effective bits; byte-level grammar-constrained decoding and a tool-retrieval head
                                License: Apache 2.0
                                Modalities: Text
                                Runs on: Smartphone, Headset, Edge device, Microcontroller
                                Formats: cact single binary; ARM64, x86-64, ARMv7, RISC-V and WebAssembly builds
                                On disk: 13.7MB cact

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                                  Syzygy Mach-1 Additive 35B

                                  Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/SyzygyResearch/Mach-1-Additive-35B
                                  X: https://x.com/syzygyeng/status/2084350792841195992
                                  Website: https://withsyzygy.com/mach-1
                                  Docs: https://withsyzygy.com/docs/mach

                                  Developer: Syzygy Research
                                  Released: August 2026
                                  Parameters: 35B total, 8 of 256 experts active
                                  Context: 262,144 tokens
                                  Architecture: Qwen3.5 MoE topology, 40 layers, 256 experts, 8 active, hybrid linear attention with full attention every 4th layer; additive 1.7-bit weights with no weight multiplication
                                  License: Apache 2.0
                                  Modalities: Text
                                  Runs on: Laptop, 16GB+ unified memory; Apple Silicon only
                                  Formats: packed 1.7-bit safetensors, MLX
                                  On disk: 7.0GB

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                                    OpenMOSS MOSS-VL

                                    Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-VL-Instruct-0708-FP8, https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-VL-Realtime-FP8
                                    GitHub: https://github.com/OpenMOSS/MOSS-VL
                                    Website: https://openmoss.ai/MOSS-VL/
                                    Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07639

                                    Developer: OpenMOSS Team
                                    Released: August 2026
                                    Variants: Instruct-0708, Realtime
                                    Parameters: 11B
                                    Context: 262,144 tokens
                                    Architecture: unified cross-attention multimodal model, 48 language layers with 12 cross-attention layers, XRoPE 3D spatiotemporal positions, absolute frame timestamps for streaming video
                                    License: Apache 2.0
                                    Modalities: Text + Image + Video
                                    Runs on: Desktop GPU; Instruct: 24GB VRAM / Realtime: 26GB+ VRAM; NVIDIA only
                                    Formats: FP8 compressed-tensors with BF16 cross-attention and vision, HQQ INT8 KV cache
                                    On disk: 15.73GB FP8 safetensors

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                                      IBM Granite 4.2

                                      Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b, https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b, https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b
                                      GitHub: https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-language-models
                                      Website: https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/models/granite4-2

                                      Developer: IBM
                                      Released: August 2026
                                      Variants: 3B / 8B / 30B
                                      Parameters: 3B / 8B / 30B
                                      Context: 3B and 8B: 131,072 tokens / 30B: 131,072 tokens native, 512,000 tokens extended
                                      Architecture: dense decoder-only transformer; GQA, RoPE, SwiGLU and RMSNorm; native reasoning modes and tool calling
                                      License: Apache 2.0
                                      Modalities: Text
                                      Formats: safetensors
                                      On disk: 3B: 7.32GB BF16 / 8B: 17.58GB BF16 / 30B: 58.55GB BF16

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                                        FireRedTeam FireRedAudio

                                        Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/FireRedTeam/FireRedAudio
                                        GitHub: https://github.com/FireRedTeam/FireRedAudio
                                        Website: https://fireredteam.github.io/demos/fireredaudio/
                                        Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24168

                                        Developer: FireRedTeam
                                        Released: August 2026
                                        Parameters: 9B
                                        Architecture: shared 9B LLM; decoupled Audio Encoder for understanding and RedAE-Patch plus flow-matching DiT pathway for generation
                                        License: Apache 2.0
                                        Modalities: Text + Audio
                                        Runs on: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only
                                        Formats: safetensors, PyTorch .pt
                                        On disk: FireRedAudio: 21.23GB safetensors / RedAE decoder: 8.40GB PyTorch .pt / 29.63GB total, estimated

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                                          Cohere Labs Tiny Aya L2-Thinker

                                          Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/tiny-aya-l2-thinker
                                          Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10445

                                          Developer: Cohere Labs
                                          Released: September 2026
                                          Parameters: 3.35B
                                          Architecture: Cohere2 decoder-only transformer; supervised fine-tuning for in-language reasoning
                                          License: CC-BY-NC-4.0
                                          Modalities: Text
                                          Runs on: Laptop
                                          Formats: safetensors
                                          On disk: 6.70GB BF16 safetensors, estimated

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