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New local AI models, Sep 1–7, 2025

2 open models released Sep 1–7, 2025, with how each runs on five reference devices.

  1. Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 (1T)

    Moonshot AI · LLM · 1,026B (32.0B active) ·

    63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

    Runs on

    Memory, every quant and how to run it Check your own device

  2. Apertus 70B Instruct

    Swiss AI · LLM · 71B ·

    57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

    Runs on

    Memory, every quant and how to run it Check your own device

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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