Top 4 trending HuggingFace models are all under 30B params
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-09-08
Developer MaziyarPanahi notes that the top 4 trending models on Hugging Face were all under 30B parameters at the time, including openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B.
His takeaway: the community is getting excited about smaller models — "intelligence they can actually run on their own hardware" — signaling a shift away from chasing ever-larger models toward locally runnable ones.
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