r/LocalLLaMA July 31, 2026 · Communities

We’ve gotten some great medium sized models lately (DSV4 Flash 0731, Inkling Small, Laguna S 2.1, Step 3.7 Flash) but does anybody else want to see some new 70-80b contenders?

I can run the mediums, but sometimes I want a faster option that's smarter than Qwen 27B/35B. On my hardware I get like 500 to 800 tok/s prefill and 16 to 22 tok/s gen on ~120B class models, which is not the worst but it does get a bit annoying on agentic coding tasks. If we could get some new MoE 70-80B models that ar