Weekly archive

New local AI models, Sep 8–14, 2025

6 open models released Sep 8–14, 2025, with how each runs on five reference devices.

  1. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking

    Alibaba · LLM · 81B (3.0B active) ·

    86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

    Runs on

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

  2. Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Instruct

    Alibaba · LLM · 81B (3.0B active) ·

    84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

    Runs on

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

  3. Wan 2.2 Animate 14B

    Alibaba · Video · 17.3B ·

    78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

    Runs on

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

  4. Magistral Small 1.2 (24B)

    Mistral AI · LLM · 24B ·

    68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

    Runs on

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

  5. ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B Thinking

    Baidu · LLM · 22B (3.0B active) ·

    70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

    Runs on

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

  6. Ling Mini 2.0 (16B-A1.4B)

    Ant Group (inclusionAI) · LLM · 16B (1.4B active) ·

    52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (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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