Text generation models and tools
Text generation models, often called large language models (LLMs), read a prompt and write text back; this topic also covers tools built around them. This page lists 20 text generation models and tools; the latest additions are LFM3-1.7B, Nanbeige4.3-33B and Spark-X2.6-4B. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- Hemmingway-1 A 27B model tuned to write everyday messages, not chatbot prose
Hemmingway-1 is a 27-billion-parameter language model (built on Qwen3.5) fine-tuned specifically for the everyday writing people actually do — a text to a landlord, a work email, an awkward note to a colleague — rather than the longer, hedged answers general chat models tend to give.
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Give a model a million tokens of text and images at once
Give a model up to a million tokens of text and images in one go, such as a long agent session or a large pile of input, and get text back.
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Format chats with its Python encoder
Use its Python encoder to format text and image chats, then run the model and get written replies.
- Audio8-ASR-Infinite Transcribe speech live, continuously, with no length limit
Audio8 ASR Infinite is a speech-to-text model built for real-time, unlimited-length transcription rather than processing a finished audio file after the fact.
- Edge0-35B-A3B-preview Run a 35B-class chat model in about 3 GB of memory
Chat with a large language model on your own computer or phone, even when it has little memory to spare.
- Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCD Pull structured data out of documents quickly on a Mac
Sort a document into fixed answers, such as a priority level or a yes-or-no flag, and get back valid JSON in one quick step on an Apple Silicon Mac.
- humanizer Rewrite AI-written drafts so they read like a person (12B)
Paste an AI-written email, essay or report and get a rewrite that reads more naturally, offline; for people writing in English or Chinese.
- LFM2.5-24B-A2B Run a tool-using reasoning agent on your own device (24B)
Run an AI that thinks step by step and calls tools, on a laptop or your own server.
- LFM3-1.7B Run local chat and tool-calling agents (1.73B)
Chat with a small text model that can call tools and give structured answers, for developers building local agents or specialized apps.
- Nanbeige4.3-33B Handle coding and office tasks with tool use
Run an open model that writes code and works through multi-step office tasks using tools.
- MiniCPM5-2B Run a 2B model built for phones that holds 131k tokens
A small language model — 2.5 billion parameters in a standard Llama-style architecture — built specifically for running on a device rather than in a data centre, with a 131,072-token context that is unusual at this size.
- Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf Run a 27B reasoning model from a 6 GB file on a laptop
Run a 27-billion-parameter reasoning model from a roughly 6 GB file on a laptop or a single GPU.
- Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-mlx-2bit Run a compressed 27B reasoning model on an Apple Silicon Mac
The Apple Silicon build of a heavily compressed 27-billion-parameter model, storing each weight as one of three values — minus one, zero or plus one — in an 8.6 GB download that includes a vision component.
- Flint Fix bugs and write tests with a coding agent (39.8B)
Let an AI model investigate code, fix bugs, add features and write tests, for developers who host their own coding agents.
- Hy-Memory-30B-A3B Write and update agent memories
Extract and update conversation facts for memory frameworks such as Mem0 or MemOS.
- NeoHorse-1-4B Run a small model built for tool use and coding
Run a small model on your own server that calls tools, writes code and follows instructions inside agent setups.
- Spark-X2.6-4B Chat, code and plan tasks on your own device
Run a compact language model on your own device for coding, tool-using agents and long inputs; for developers building on-device AI apps.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL Use Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6's efficiency-balanced model for agent work
Give one model text, images, video or audio, with up to a million tokens of context such as a whole code repository or a long tool log, and get text back for coding and agent work.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL A large model trained on coding, agents, vision and security tasks at once
MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL is Xiaomi's flagship model in the MiMo-V2.6 family, reading and generating text, images, video and audio in one model with a 1-million-token context for handling large codebases or long multi-session agent work.
- Xing4.0-29B-A4B Run a 29B model that uses only 4B of itself per word
Run a language model that plans several steps, calls tools and works through long coding or research tasks, using a context of 256,000 tokens.
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