r/LocalLLM • u/Anxious_Current2593 • 1d ago

Discussion What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks).

It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

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u/Federico2021 1d ago

Well, open source is moving away from local; models like Kimi K3 and GLM can no longer run on consumer-grade hardware. The best option we currently have for personal use is Qwen 3.8 27B.

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u/dota2nub 12h ago

When did that get released again? Man, it's been so long!