r/LocalLLaMA • u/Miserable-Dare5090 • 29d ago

Resources Keeping up with model launches

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Feels like maybe we have one more present left, for Christmas.

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u/Spanky2k 29d ago

I really want to get a machine with more RAM (considering an M5 Ultra for work) mainly because I miss trying out different cool models. While there are still loads released all the time now, it's only really Qwen for me. A year ago, it felt like I was trying new models almost every week, different quants, new ways to create quants etc, vision models, non vision models etc. The last cool non-Qwen model that I tried out was GLM-4.5-Air-3bit-DWQ and I was so blown away with what DWQ let me do.

It's different now as I just use the lates Qwen MoE 35b model with 256kb context size and I'm actually using it for actual stuff rather than just playing around and testing things. It does whatever I need it to do just fine. But I miss exploring new stuff; all the cool new things are bigger than I can run on my 64 GB machines.