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State of Local AI #1
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In lieu of Fable ban.
Hereโs the best LLMs of the week to run on your hardware.
โโ 4-8gb vram/ram 500$
- Gemma-4-qat https://t.co/UFCmLXVKed I had someone mention itโs very good for subagent stuff
โโ 8-16gb vram/ram < 1k usd
- Gemma-12B https://t.co/tc6IBTrbc3 without a doubt the smartest model of its size
โโ 16-32gb Apple/Strix halo 1-2k usd
- Diffusion Gemma26B https://t.co/mSaWPFpgXQ
- on 1x 6000 itโs eating up to 600 tok/s
- smallest smart MoE we have
- lots of world knowledge
- easy to run
โโ 32-96gb ram/vram (2-10k usd)
- nex-n2-mini https://t.co/EL1ePzwI58 builds on qwen3.6-35B and seems to do really well
- qwopus-27B https://t.co/P1gypZwufi this model topped a lot of our benchmarks at https://t.co/UfoYoOlSIk
โโ 384gb vram (10-50K usd)
- https://t.co/AZb0Gtu5P3 23B means itโs close to qwen3.6-27B per token, while also have a lot of specialisation.
- fast inference
- top open weight model on AA
โโ 768gb-1TB
- https://t.co/kWzJG2Hjen
Kimi has always been a top player here and their last model cuts speed and cost down by 30%
- great vision support
- first coder model by moonshot
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Top models:
1. Qwen3.6-35B
2. Qwen3.6-27B
3. Step-3.7-Flash
4. Minimax-M3
5. Deepseek-v4-flash
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Budget sweet spots:
#1 - 1K usd
Single 3090 / Mac mini / Intel arc b70 / AMD
- Qwen / Gemma
#2 - 5k usd
DGX Spark / Mac m5 max / 4x 3090
- qwen / Gemma step and deepseek flash
#3 - 12k usd
RTX Pro 6000 / Mac Ultra / 2x Spark / 8x 3090
Ds4-flash / step-3.7-Flash and above
#4 - 24k usd
2x 6000 / 2x Mac Ultra / 4x Spark / Mix
Same as above
#5 - 50k usd
4x 6000 / 4x Max Ultra / 12x Spark / 2 H100
Minimax-m3 / nex-n2-pro / step-3.7-flash
#6 - 100k usd
GB300 station / 8x 6000 / 4x H200 / Mix
GLM-5.2 / Kimi-K2.7
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Best models Iโve seen this week for your hardware: if you have 8-16gb you have a competitive model finally!
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4gb - 8gb:
- minicpm5: this model was built for agentic tool use on tiny machines: https://t.co/LvNnIDSh7u
- tops benchmarks in weight class
- extremely small
- great for using in projects with AI
- blazing fast
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8gb - 16gb
Most exciting model
- LFM-2.5-8B: https://t.co/5SYi6D56FR
Frontier for vram:
- 8b moe with
- 1.5B active
- trained on 38T tokens (MASSIVE)
- 131k context
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96GB - 128GB
- ds4flash either q2 or reap + q4
https://t.co/BaphZfWrwG
- or
https://t.co/EAZB4bDYjA
- very strong agent
- logical pleasant to talk to
- good in Hermes
- fast
- high contexts for little vram
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196gb+
Step-3.7-Flash: https://t.co/oaVf5wMILx
- 199B with 11B active (FAST)
- vision support!
- its predecessor was topping benchmarks for 3 months
- 256k context
- 150 tok/s on 6000s
Updates since then:
* Deepseek v4 is out. There *is* a 2-bit quant that can run within 90 GB ( https://t.co/yM1HMZXkXn ), and it works, however it's only fast on Apple hardware (I've head ~35 tok/s). On AMD, it's ~7 tok/s. IMO actually taking the effort to properly support more than one hardware manufacturer is a great example of the difference between mere "decentralized AI" and genuine "CROPS AI". I hope we can become better at this.
* https://t.co/CFYF1smBH3 also has alpha telegram support now. However, the path to adding your account is quite janky
* https://t.co/za4h233eYz looks promising as a way to run "dense" models (eg. Qwen 27B) more efficiently. It's janky, but on my 5090 laptop it seems to be ~2x more tok/s than llama.cpp
* VoxTerm (local AI recording, no third-party servers) continues to be developed https://t.co/GSdKzkD9Ql
And there's a lot more projects coming on the horizon.
One other thing that has been on my mind is that there's actually a lot of intersection between "CROPS ethereum access layer" and "CROPS AI". For example, we want a ZK way to make (paid) calls to remote LLMs. But if we have this, then it's just as useful for solving another problem: private RPC reads in Ethereum.
Another example: application-specific finetuned LLMs. Leanstral ( https://t.co/ilfww8ekJu ; I get ~38 tok/s on AMD) fits into < 70 GB, but can hold its own against 1T models on writing Lean code. Things like this are a huge boon for writing more secure code ( https://t.co/6YPWgVSzCg ). We should have models finetuned for Ethereum-related use cases as well.
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