[reissbaker]

256+: GLM-5.2 (swap with Kimi K3 when it goes open-weight on Monday)

<256: Actually, surprisingly, not a Chinese model but probably Laguna S2.1. The best Chinese model at this size is DeepSeek V4 Flash though

<96: Qwen 3.6 27B

<32: Still Qwen 3.6 27B (NVFP4)

<16: Oof, not sure. Nothing will feel great at this size TBQH without finetuning on a specific task. Pick your poison of tiny Qwen or tiny Gemma (although again Gemma is not Chinese)

[3eb7988a1663]

Exactly the kind of breakdown I was hoping to see. Thanks.

[pbgcp2026]

And we can quickly see that the real problem is not the models, but HW to run them. You can build whole Enterprise on Gemma 4 31B full precision without significant problems. If you can afford not to lobotomise it by quantisation.