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User seeks best small multimodal AI model for local assistant

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A user is seeking recommendations for small, multimodal AI models suitable for a local personal assistant. They have found Gemma 4 E4B to be the best option so far for its tool-calling, chaining, synthesis, and multimodality capabilities, despite its age. The user is looking for newer models under 8 billion parameters that can outperform Gemma 4 E4B in these specific tasks, having already tried and found unsatisfactory alternatives like Llama 3.0 Tiny and Qwen 3.5. AI

IMPACT Identifies a gap in current small, multimodal models for local personal assistants, potentially guiding future development.

RANK_REASON User query seeking advice on AI models, not a new release or significant industry event.

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User seeks best small multimodal AI model for local assistant

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Beautiful_Bus_9237 ·

    Is Gemma 4 E4B still the best small model for a local, tool-calling personal assistant? What am I missing?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I run a local assistant on a Mac (MLX via oMLX, 24 GB M5 Pro). It needs to call tools reliably across mail, calendar, notes and files, chain a few calls, and reply in a short, calm voice. It also has to synthesize/extract important information fr…

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