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Small Specialized Open Models

Compact open models are being fine-tuned for concrete local tasks such as 3D asset generation, vision-language on smartphones, and specialized code output. These releases show a path to useful on-device AI without large datacenter GPUs.

Detected: 2026-11-07 ยท Updated: 2026-11-07

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2026-11-06 โ€ข LocalLLaMA

Mirage: a 22 MB vision model that gives text-only LLMs visual skills on device

Cactus Compute has released Mirage, a 22 MB visual-language model with 51.3 million parameters aimed at phones, wearables, and robots. On a Samsung Galaxy S26 it runs in 74 ms on the NPU and 107 ms on the CPU, covering scene description, object detec...

#Hardware #LLM On-Premise #Fine-Tuning
2026-11-06 โ€ข LocalLLaMA

CCORE GLB-3D-Coder: an open dataset for 3D assets with a 4B LLM

The author of CCORE GLB-3D-Coder has released the dataset used to train the 4-billion-parameter model: 3,918 validated and rendered examples across 40 domains, with reasoning traces, HTML/JavaScript responses, and an MIT license. A base for fine-tuni...

#Hardware #LLM On-Premise #Fine-Tuning
2026-11-05 โ€ข LocalLLaMA

CCORE GLB-3D-Coder 4B: The Self-Hosted Worksite for 3D Assets

The final release of CCORE GLB-3D-Coder 4B signals a concrete path for generating 3D assets locally: a 4B LLM fine-tuned to produce Three.js code exportable as GLB. GGUF weights and the expected dataset open self-hosted scenarios, with data sovereign...

2026-11-05 โ€ข LocalLLaMA

CCORE GLB-3D-Coder 4B brings self-hosted 3D asset generation to a 4B model

The final version of CCORE GLB-3D-Coder 4B, a full fine-tune of Qwen3.5-4B, is now available with Safetensors weights and GGUF files. It generates Three.js scenes exportable as GLB for Godot, Blender, and Unity. A concrete signal for self-hosted 3D a...

#Hardware #LLM On-Premise #Fine-Tuning
2026-11-01 โ€ข LocalLLaMA

FineDNA: the open dataset that brings DNA into LLMs

The team behind Carbon-X has released data, code, and the recipe used to turn Qwen3-14B into an open DNA-focused model. The package includes 300B+ midtraining tokens, about 200K SFT conversations, and 98K verifiable RL prompts. For teams handling gen...

#Hardware #LLM On-Premise #Fine-Tuning
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