Mixture of experts
Aleph Alpha Kolibri is a 78.84 GB open-weight model, and its own documents disagree on German data
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a German and English model with 78.1 billion parameters, on October 3, 2026. We have not run it, and the company's documents disagree on training tokens and German data share.
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IQuest releases IQuest-Q1, a 320 billion parameter open weights model, on September 28
IQuest released IQuest-Q1, a 320 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model for agentic coding, as open weights. We have not run it; this report sets out the maker's claims, the licence and what is missing.
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DASLab publishes a 58.41 GB Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUF build that keeps half the experts
IST Austria's DASLab released GGUF builds of Qwen3.8 Flash Next on September 26, 2026, the smallest at 58.41 GB. We have not run them, and the documents disagree on licence, parameters and scores.
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Aikido announces Altar-1, GLM-5.3 cut to 168 experts and 327.99 GB
Aikido Security announced Altar-1 on September 21, 2026: GLM-5.3 with 88 of 256 experts removed per layer, in 327.99 GB of files. We have not run it, and we list where the card and the repository disagree.
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MiMo V2.6 is open weights from Xiaomi, and its 9B model runs at 24.09 tokens a second on a 48 GB Mac
Xiaomi released the MiMo V2.6 family as open weights on September 21, 2026. We ran the 9B model on a 48 GB Mac and give the maker's figures for the two large ones, which we have not run.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash weights are out: 552B in the announcement, 763.2B in the files
DeepSeek released the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash weights on September 10, 2026 under the MIT licence. Its documents disagree on size and on the chat template, and we have not run it.
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IFM releases K2 Horizon open weights, and its smallest model will not load in LM Studio or Ollama
IFM released six K2 Horizon open-weight models on September 1, 2026. We tried IFM's own smallest GGUF file on an M4 Pro with 48 GB, and both LM Studio and Ollama refused it as an unknown architecture.