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ehristoforu 's Collections
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The best small LLM-instruct models

updated Jul 22, 2024

The best small (from 2B to 15B) LLM models in instruct format

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  • mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

    12B • Updated Jul 28, 2025 • 343k • 1.68k

  • google/gemma-2-9b-it

    Text Generation • 9B • Updated Aug 27, 2024 • 252k • • 827

  • arcee-ai/Arcee-Spark

    Text Generation • 8B • Updated Jul 22, 2024 • 361 • • 87

  • NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

    Text Generation • 8B • Updated Jul 23, 2024 • 109k • • 105

  • mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3

    7B • Updated Dec 3, 2025 • 2.13M • 2.64k

  • microsoft/Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct

    Text Generation • 14B • Updated Dec 10, 2025 • 4.78k • 387
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