LFM2.5-DSpark adds roughly 300M-parameter draft models for LFM2.5 1.2B, 2.6B and 8B-A1B. Liquid reports large throughput gains on H100 and M4 Max, but the gains vary sharply by model and workload and current llama.cpp integration still has practical edge cases.
Meta’s Muse Glimmer 30B combines tool use, coding, vision and agentic task completion with official local-runtime artifacts. A 17GB GGUF build targets 24GB-VRAM machines, but Meta also attaches a separate usage policy, so builders should distinguish weight availability from unrestricted use.
SwarmLLM does not route whole prompts to separate machines; it pipelines one model across browser tabs. A MacBook and iPhone can jointly hold Qwen 3.8 27B even when neither device can hold the full 15GB quantized model alone, with no inference server in the loop.
The post-release evidence sharpens the original story. Qwen3.8-27B can retain useful agentic-coding performance at practical 4-bit sizes, but local model quality is not a property of the checkpoint alone: quantization, reasoning effort, context handling and the agent harness can materially change the result.
MiMo-V2.6 is more useful than another benchmark launch because builders get both capable multimodal weights and a rare view into the reinforcement-learning machinery that produced them: code, environments, run costs and even failure notes from the training cluster.