Megathread covering physical robotics across manufacturing arms, humanoids, and other machines to assist with object design and engineering

Megathread covering South American object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design.

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Google Gemma 4

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/google/gemma-4
GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemma
Website: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core
Announcement: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12B/

Developer: Google DeepMind
Released: 26B A4B and 31B: April 2026 / 12B Unified: June 2026
Variants: 12B Unified, 26B A4B, 31B
Parameters: 12B Unified: 11.95B / 26B A4B: 25.2B total, 3.8B active / 31B: 30.7B
Context: 256,000 tokens
Architecture: 31B: Dense / 26B A4B: MoE, 8 active of 128 experts plus 1 shared / 12B: Unified encoder-free dense, multimodal input projected directly into the decoder
License: Apache 2.0
Modalities: 12B: Text + Image + Audio / 26B A4B and 31B: Text + Image
Runs on: Laptop, consumer GPU/workstation class
Formats: GGUF via Ollama/LM Studio, safetensors via Hugging Face, Docker
On disk: 12B: 7GB Q4, estimated / 26B A4B: 15GB Q4, estimated / 31B: 18GB Q4, estimated

Google Gemma 4 Effective

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/google/gemma-4
GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemma
Website: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core
Announcement: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/

Developer: Google DeepMind
Released: April 2026
Variants: E2B, E4B
Parameters: E2B: 2.3B effective, 5.1B with embeddings / E4B: 4.5B effective, 8B with embeddings
Context: 128,000 tokens
Architecture: Dense, hybrid local sliding window + global attention, Per-Layer Embeddings for on-device efficiency
License: Apache 2.0
Modalities: Text + Image + Audio
Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop, Edge device
Formats: GGUF via Ollama/LM Studio, safetensors via Hugging Face
On disk: E2B: 1.4GB Q4, estimated / E4B: 2.7GB Q4, estimated

PrismML Bonsai Image 4B

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/bonsai-image-binary-4B-mlx-1bit, https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/bonsai-image-ternary-4B-mlx-2bit
GitHub: https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-Image-Demo
Website: https://prismml.com
Announcement: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b

Developer: PrismML
Released: May 2026
Parameters: 4B, transformer trunk
Architecture: MMDiT diffusion transformer, base architecture FLUX.2 Klein 4B, 25 blocks: 5 double-stream + 20 single-stream
Variants: Binary, 1-bit / Ternary, 2-bit
License: Apache 2.0
Modalities: Text-to-Image
Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop
Formats: MLX 1-bit, MLX 2-bit, Gemlite 1-bit/2-bit for CUDA, safetensors
On disk: Binary: 0.93GB transformer, 3.42GB total deployment payload / Ternary: 1.21GB transformer

Qwen3.6

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.6
Website: https://qwen.ai/

Developer: Alibaba Cloud, Qwen team
Released: April 2026
Parameters: 27B / 35B total, 3B active
Context: 262,144 tokens, extensible to 1,010,000
Architecture: Dense / MoE, 256 experts, 8 routed + 1 shared active
License: Apache 2.0
Modalities: Text + Vision
Runs on: Laptop, 24GB+ unified memory minimum
Formats: GGUF, MLX 4-bit, community quantizations
On disk: 27B: 16GB Q4_K_M, estimated / 35B-A3B: 21GB Q4_K_M, estimated

Sarah Jang

Credentials: Pratt Institute; Carnegie Mellon University
From: New York State
Based: Brooklyn, NY
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture

Website: https://sarahjang.me
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sjang_studio/

Youri

Myre Chair

Minhwa Chair

Liquid AI LFM2-24B-A2B

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B
GitHub: https://github.com/Liquid4All/cookbook
Website: https://www.liquid.ai
Announcement: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-24b-a2b

Developer: Liquid AI
Released: February 2026
Parameters: 24B total, 2.3B active
Context: 32,768 tokens
Architecture: MoE, 40 layers: 30 conv + 10 attention, 64 experts, top-4 routing
License: LFM Open License v1.0
Modalities: Text
Runs on: Laptop, 14GB+ unified memory minimum, 32GB+ recommended
Formats: GGUF Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, safetensors, ONNX
On disk: 14.44GB Q4_K_M / 16.93GB Q5_K_M / 19.58GB Q6_K

Liquid AI LFM2.5-VL-450M

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-VL-450M
Website: https://www.liquid.ai
Announcement: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-vl-450m

Developer: Liquid AI
Released: April 2026
Parameters: 450M
Context: 32,768 tokens
Architecture: hybrid gated-convolution + grouped-query attention LM backbone, LFM2.5-350M, with SigLIP2 NaFlex 86M vision encoder
License: LFM Open License v1.0
Modalities: Text + Vision, bounding box / object detection support
Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop, Edge device
Formats: GGUF, ONNX, MLX 4-bit/5-bit/6-bit/8-bit/bf16, safetensors
On disk: 270MB Q4, estimated

IBM Granite 4.1 3B

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b
GitHub: https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-language-models
Announcement: https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-4-1

Developer: IBM
Released: April 2026
Parameters: 3B
Context: 512,000 tokens
Architecture: dense decoder-only transformer
License: Apache 2.0
Modalities: Text
Runs on: Smartphone, 2GB at 4-bit, estimated, Laptop, Edge device
Formats: GGUF Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0, MLX/Core ML via conversion
On disk: 2.2GB Q4_K_M, estimated

Apple Foundation Model 3 Core Advanced

Framework: Apple Foundation Models
Docs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/FoundationModels

Developer: Apple
Released: June 2026, WWDC
Parameters: 20B total, 1-4B active
Context: 4,096 tokens
Architecture: Sparse MoE with Instruction-Following Pruning
License: Proprietary, OS-bundled
Modalities: Text + Image + Audio
Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop, 12GB+ RAM

Apple Foundation Model 3 Core

Docs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/FoundationModels

Developer: Apple
Released: June 2026, WWDC
Parameters: 3B
Context: 4,096 tokens
Architecture: Dense
License: Proprietary, OS-bundled
Modalities: Text
Runs on: Smartphone, Laptop

Liquid AI LFM2.5

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI
Website: https://www.liquid.ai
Announcement: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-230m, https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-350m-no-size-left-behind, https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-1-2b-thinking-on-device-reasoning-under-1gb, https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b

Developer: Liquid AI
Released: Jan-Jun 2026, rolling family
Parameters: LFM2.5-230M: 230M / LFM2.5-350M: 350M / LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking: 1.2B / LFM2.5-8B-A1B: 8B total, 1B active
Context: 230M/350M/1.2B: 32K / 8B-A1B: 128K
Architecture: hybrid gated-convolution + grouped-query attention; dense for 230M/350M/1.2B, MoE for 8B-A1B
License: LFM Open License v1.0
Modalities: Text
Runs on: 230M/350M: Smartphone, Laptop, Edge device / 1.2B-Thinking: Smartphone, Laptop / 8B-A1B: Laptop, 8GB+ unified memory
Formats: GGUF Q4_K_M, MLX 4-bit, ONNX
On disk: 230M: 153MB / 350M: 250MB est. / 1.2B-Thinking: 720MB est. / 8B-A1B: 4.8GB est.

Toshiya Hayashi

Credentials: Hitotsubashi University
From: Toyama Prefecture, Japan
Based: Tokyo, Japan
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture

we+: https://weplus.jp
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toshiya__hayashi/

Unseen Objects / Overflow

In-Between Matter

Nao Tamura

Credentials: Parsons School of Design
From: Tokyo, Japan
Based: New York, United States
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture, Lighting

Website: https://naotamura.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nownao/

TIKI

ORIGATA

Jin Kuramoto

Credentials: Kanazawa College of Art (1999)
From: Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Based: Tokyo, Japan
Discipline: Furniture, Industrial Design

JIN KURAMOTO STUDIO: https://www.jinkuramoto.com

FOUR chair

Pleats

Fumie Shibata

Credentials: Professor, Tama Art University
Based: Tokyo, Japan
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture

Design Studio S: https://design-ss.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fumie.design/

BONBORI

vertebra03

Kengo Kuma

Credentials: Ph.D. Architecture, Keio University (2006)
Based: Tokyo, Japan
Discipline: Architecture

Kengo Kuma & Associates: https://kkaa.co.jp
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kkaa_official

Japan National Stadium

V&A Dundee

libfive

Type: Implicit field based
Created: 2017
Website: https://libfive.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/libfive/libfive

C3D

Type: b-Rep based
Created: 1995
Website: https://c3dlabs.com/