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26 JUL 2026

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…

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26 JUL 2026

Ternary-quantized 27B models are now targeting phones

prism-ml's Bonsai-27B and Ternary-Bonsai-27B GGUF builds are trending on Hugging Face (1.4M and 432K downloads over 30 days), part of a push — flagged on ThursdAI — to run 27B-class models on a phone via ternary quantization. Aggressive quantization is making capable local inference viable on far weaker hardware. For…

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