The April 2026 "Top Local Models List" highlights several models gaining community traction for local AI deployments. Qwen 3.5 is broadly recommended across various uses, while Gemma 4 shows strong recent buzz for smaller and mid-sized applications. GLM-5 and GLM-4.7 are frequently mentioned in discussions for the "best overall" open models, and MiniMax M2.5/M2.7 are cited for agentic workloads. DeepSeek V3.2 remains a top contender for general open-weight models, and GPT-oss 20B is noted as a practical local option, especially for uncensored variants. AI
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