What's the current best small model?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Basically title. All labs seem to have agreed 24-27b is the minimum size they will go, nothing below that. I wonder when will we get the next sub

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>What models do you think are best for UI/design? I saw that GLM5.1 was quite capable, Opus and Sonnet as well, but are there any smaller models

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>when Qwen announced a 27B model you guys went wild but i also saw people hoping for a 70/120B model. whats the ideal model size you guys would

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Looking for model around the size of 100M, looking to see if it has improved since the last post on this topic from 2 years ago. </p> </div><!--

<!-- 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>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 know qwen 3.5 4b is great but a bit too large and miniPCM5 1b is great for agentic use but not so great for multilingual natural language

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Nambeige is my current favorite strange little model. It’s a 3B model that i think punches well above its weight. In think the tech behind it is