I like [mistral-nemo](https://ollama.com/library/mistral-nemo) "A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, built by Mistral AI in collaboration with NVIDIA."

I like the latest qwen2.5 (https://nexaai.com/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct/gguf-q4_0/read...). It was just released last week. It is one of the best small langauge models right now according to benchmarks. And it is small and fast!

Qwen 2.5 has just released, with a surprising amount of sizes. The 14B and 32B look pretty promising for their size class but it's hard to tell yet.

Nada to be honest. I keep trying every new model, and invariably go back to llama 8b.

Llama8b is the new mistral.

codestral 22b, aya-23 35b, gemma2 27b-instruct.