{"id":2337,"date":"2026-09-21T08:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/2026\/09\/21\/open-weight-model-weekly-2026-09-22\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:54:24","slug":"open-weight-model-weekly-2026-09-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/open-weight-model-weekly-2026-09-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-Weight Model Weekly: Ternary 27B Models and Apple Silicon Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Week in Numbers<\/h2>\n

Counted by Local Model Watch from the articles published this week.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Item<\/th>\nCount<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Articles published<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000New Models<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000Engines and Tools<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000Technical Reports<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000Community<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000Image, Video and Audio<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000Companies and Funding<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New models covered<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000fit in 8GB of VRAM (est.)<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000fit in 12GB of VRAM (est.)<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000fit in 16GB of VRAM (est.)<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000fit in 24GB of VRAM (est.)<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000parameters up to 4B<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000parameters 15\u201340B<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000parameters over 40B<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u3000parameters 4\u201315B<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Converted builds appended to earlier articles<\/td>\n15 (GGUF 9, MLX 4, GPTQ 1, NVFP4 1)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Most active publishers<\/td>\nbartowski (3), unslothai\/unsloth (3), prism-ml (3)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Trending models we did not cover separately<\/h3>\n

Hugging Face repositories that trended this week but did not get their own article. Listed for reference; we have not reviewed their model cards.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Model<\/th>\nLikes<\/th>\nDownloads<\/th>\nWhy no article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
XingChen-AGI\/Xing4.0-29B-A4B<\/a><\/td>\n872<\/td>\n12,617<\/td>\npublisher not on our notable list<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dealignai\/Bonsai-2-27B-Ternary-CRACK-GGUF<\/a><\/td>\n108<\/td>\n25,385<\/td>\npublisher not on our notable list<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
empero-ai\/Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-GGUF<\/a><\/td>\n107<\/td>\n52,476<\/td>\npublisher not on our notable list<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Altworld\/Hemmingway-1<\/a><\/td>\n97<\/td>\n0<\/td>\npublisher not on our notable list<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Patch releases we did not cover separately<\/h3>\n

Releases of watched projects that were patch-level or had short notes. Each project’s page lists every version.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Project<\/th>\nVersion<\/th>\nRelease notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
ollama\/ollama<\/td>\nv0.34.2<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
turboderp-org\/exllamav3<\/td>\nv1.5.1<\/td>\nGitHub<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Highlights of the Week<\/h2>\n