[OccamsMirror]

What ~7b models would you recommend investigating?

[runjake]

Start with the 7b and 8b models popular on Ollama's listings:

https://ollama.com/search?q=7b

https://ollama.com/search?q=8b

It's not showing up high on the list of the above URLs for some reason, but I quite enjoy the deepseek-r1 8b variant: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

YMMV