# Open Weight Weekly

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## Posts

### You've Been Quantizing the Wrong Thing
- URL: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-06-quantizing-wrong-thing
- Summary: You spend hours picking between Q4_K_M and Q5_K_S, shaving a few hundred megabytes off your model file. Then you load a 32K-context conversation and watch your GPU memory climb right back up. The prob
- Tags: turboquant, kv-cache, quantization, google, inference, vram
- Date: 2026-04-06
- Details: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-06-quantizing-wrong-thing/llms.txt
### NVIDIA Snuck Mamba Into a 120B Model and Nobody Blinked
- URL: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-nemotron-3-super-mamba-throughput
- Summary: NVIDIA dropped Nemotron 3 Super a few weeks ago, and the discourse moved on within 48 hours. Understandable — March was a firehose of model releases. But this one deserved more attention than it got, 
- Tags: nemotron-3-super, nvidia, mamba, mixture-of-experts, agentic-ai, ollama
- Date: 2026-04-04
- Details: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-nemotron-3-super-mamba-throughput/llms.txt
### Gemma 4's Secret Weapon Isn't the 31B — It's the 26B That Acts Like a 4B
- URL: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-03-gemma-4-26b-moe-sweet-spot
- Summary: Google shipped Gemma 4 yesterday under Apache 2.0, and while the 31B dense model grabs the headlines, the real story is the 26B Mixture-of-Experts variant that only fires 4 billion parameters per toke
- Tags: gemma-4, mixture-of-experts, apache-2, benchmarks, ollama, local-inference
- Date: 2026-04-03
- Details: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-03-gemma-4-26b-moe-sweet-spot/llms.txt
### Mistral Crammed Three Models Into One and Called It Small
- URL: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-01-mistral-small-4-three-models-one
- Summary: Mistral just shipped a model that replaces your instruct endpoint, your reasoning pipeline, and your vision stack — and the whole thing runs on the same inference budget as a dense 7B model per token.
- Tags: mistral-small-4, moe, open-weights, benchmarks, deployment, ollama
- Date: 2026-04-01
- Details: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-01-mistral-small-4-three-models-one/llms.txt
### Someone Distilled Claude's Thinking Into Qwen3.5 — And It Actually Works
- URL: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-03-30-qwen35-claude-reasoning-distilled
- Summary: A HuggingFace user named Jackrong quietly uploaded a set of models last week that deserve way more attention than they're getting. The pitch: take Claude 4.6 Opus's chain-of-thought reasoning 
- Tags: qwen3.5, distillation, reasoning, gguf, quantization, local-inference
- Date: 2026-03-30
- Details: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-03-30-qwen35-claude-reasoning-distilled/llms.txt
### GLM-5 Is the Best Open Model You'll Never Run
- URL: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-glm5-best-model-youll-never-run
- Summary: The open-weight leaderboard has a new king, and you probably can't afford to host it. Zhipu's GLM-5 landed this month with a thud that registered across every benchmark tracker on the internet
- Tags: glm-5, open-weights, quantization, gpt-oss, benchmarks, ollama
- Date: 2026-03-28
- Details: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-glm5-best-model-youll-never-run/llms.txt

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