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Why have 8B-12B models been dropped?
I am a Macbook Pro M4 user with the 16GB of unified ram. The best model I have been able to run on LM Studio is Gemma4 12B QAT, this model is 66 days old. After that the next best thing LM studio suggests is Nemotron 3 Nano 4B and Qwen3.5 9B, which both are 147-161 days old. It also suggests Bonsai 27B which is 10 days