The best model is the one you can actually run

Don't get me wrong, all the big models are amazing, and every contribution to open source models is great. But I'm GPU poor and I can't use them locally.

I'm currently running gemma-4-12b-it-qat-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL as my personal chat assistant, and I am so so happy with it! I still can't believe I can talk to my computer.