Are there any experimental small models (9B or less) which are out or currently

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi. What do you think is the smallest Open model, as of Spring 2026, that can match/beat OpenAI GPT 4o Mini in the broadest sense possible?</p>

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I need SOTA ai at like 2k TPS with tiny latency so that I can get time to first answer token under 3 seconds for real time replies with full COT

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Long time Claude Opus user, but after the recent session limit changes by Anthropic, I am seriously considering trying Chinese models for coding.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s59rct/rys_part_3_llms_think_in_geometry_not_language/"> <img alt="RYS Part 3: LLMs think in geometry, not

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’m trying to understand the current open-source LLM landscape beyond surface-level hype.</p> <p>We all got used to the nerfed products of

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey guys, </p> <p>I was wondering what recent state-of-the-art small language models are the best for general question-answering task (diverse

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The only things released in the last couple weeks seem to be bigger models like Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, etc. Where are the Laguna's, Nemotrons,

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>LLMs keep improving.<br /> Small models are around 3 years behind frontier models.<br /> Do you think we’ll have a model as good as today’s Fable