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Apple Foundation Models
Apple Foundation Models (AFM) are the family of large language models Apple built to power Apple Intelligence, the company's generative AI system introduced at...
AI CompaniesAI Models
Best Local and On-Device LLMs
As of July 2026, the best local LLM to run offline depends almost entirely on how much memory you can give it, so this guide ranks picks by hardware tier. The...
Large Language ModelsOpen Source AI
Best Small Language Models
As of July 2026, the two strongest small language models (open models under 15 billion parameters) are Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 12B and Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B....
Large Language ModelsOpen Source AI
GPT-4.1 nano
GPT-4.1 nano is the smallest, fastest, and least expensive model in OpenAI's GPT-4.1 family of large language models, released on April 14, 2025. Offered...
Large Language ModelsOpenAI
GPT-4o mini
GPT-4o mini is a small, low-cost multimodal large language model developed by OpenAI and released on July 18, 2024, as the company's most cost-efficient model...
Multimodal AIOpenAI
Gemma
Gemma is a family of open-weight large language models developed by Google DeepMind, built from the same research and technology used to create Google's Gemini...
Google DeepMindLarge Language Models
Gemma 2
Gemma 2 is a family of open-weights large language models developed by Google DeepMind and released starting June 27, 2024, in three parameter sizes: 2 billion...
AI ModelsGoogle
Gemma 3
Gemma 3 is a family of open-weight large language models developed by Google DeepMind and released on March 12, 2025.[2] It is the third generation of the...
AI ModelsGoogle
Gemma 3n
Gemma 3n is an open, mobile-first multimodal model from Google built to run locally on phones, tablets, laptops, and other resource-constrained hardware,...
Google DeepMindOpen Source AI
Minitron
Minitron is a family of compact language models from NVIDIA, together with the model-compression method used to build them: take one large, already pretrained...
NVIDIATraining & Optimization
Phi (language model)
Phi is a family of open-weight small language models (SLMs) developed by Microsoft Research, beginning with Phi-1 in June 2023 and spanning thirteen-plus...
Large Language ModelsMicrosoft
Phi-3
<p><b>Phi-3</b> is a family of small, efficient open-weight language models developed by Microsoft and first released on April 23, 2024, under the permissive...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
Phi-4
Phi-4 is a 14-billion-parameter small language model developed by Microsoft Research and released in December 2024, designed to match or beat models several...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
Phi-4-mini
Phi-4-mini is a 3.8 billion parameter open weight small language model released by Microsoft on February 26, 2025, under the permissive MIT license.[1][4] It...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning
Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning is a 3.8 billion parameter open weight reasoning model released by Microsoft in July 2025.[1] It is a latency optimized sibling of...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
Reka Edge
Reka Edge is a 7-billion-parameter multimodal language model developed by Reka AI, introduced in April 2024 as the smallest member of the company's first...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
SmolLM
SmolLM is a family of small, fully open language models released by Hugging Face on July 16, 2024 in three sizes, 135 million, 360 million, and 1.7 billion...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
SmolLM 2
SmolLM 2 is a family of compact open-weight language models released by Hugging Face on November 1, 2024. The family contains three sizes, 135M, 360M, and 1.7...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models
SmolLM 3
SmolLM 3 is a fully open 3 billion parameter language model released by Hugging Face on July 8, 2025, trained on 11.2 trillion tokens and designed as a small,...
AI ModelsLarge Language Models