Why 8B–12B models have fallen out of favor, despite recent launches
Read the original at old.reddit.com→I am a Macbook Pro M4 user with the 16GB of unified ram. The best model I have been able to run on LM Studio is Gemma4 12B QAT, this model is 66 days old. After that the next best thing LM studio suggests is Nemotron...
Original headline: "Why have 8B-12B models been dropped?"
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- Aug 11, 07:52 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Why have 8B-12B models been dropped?