Sub-4B models are trending alongside the frontier releases
Hugging Face's trending list right now mixes 250B-plus open-weight drops with a steady run of very small models — Nanbeige4.2-3B at a trending score of 431, Motif-3-Beta at 188, and fdtn-ai's antares-1b at 162. The small end isn't a niche curiosity; it's consistently sharing the front page with the giants. For developers, that's the practical half of the open-weight story: models that actually fit on a laptop or an edge device without a quantisation project first.