Capability of models small enough to run on a TV fleet
Notable open-weight models with ~30B or fewer parameters, at release date.
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Epoch Capabilities Index
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release date
Mistral-7B: 7 B params, ECI 112.2, released 2023-09-27
Mistral-7B
Gemma-7B: 7 B params, ECI 112.0, released 2024-02-21
Gemma-7B
Mistral-NeMo: 12 B params, ECI 118.7, released 2024-07-18
Mistral-NeMo
Llama3.1-8B: 8 B params, ECI 116.6, released 2024-07-23
Llama3.1-8B
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B: 14 B params, ECI 116.4, released 2024-09-18
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B
Gemma3-27B: 27 B params, ECI 130.0, released 2025-03-12
Gemma3-27B
Mistral-Small-3.1: 24 B params, ECI 127.5, released 2025-03-17
Mistral-Small-3.1
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B: 30 B params, ECI 139.0, released 2025-07-31
gpt-oss-20b: 20 B params, ECI 137.8, released 2025-08-05
gpt-oss-20b
Qwen3.5-9B: 9 B params, ECI 139.5, released 2026-02-24
Qwen3.5-9B
Gemma4-26B-A4B: 26 B params, ECI 141.8, released 2026-04-02
Gemma4-26B-A4B
Llama2-13B: 13 B params, ECI 106.2, released 2023-07-18
Llama2-13B
Qwen-14B: 14 B params, ECI 113.0, released 2023-09-24
Qwen-14B
Llama3-8B: 8 B params, ECI 116.5, released 2024-04-18
Llama3-8B
Phi-3-small: 7.4 B params, ECI 121.8, released 2024-04-23
Phi-3-small
Gemma2-27B: 27 B params, ECI 122.1, released 2024-06-24
Gemma2-27B
Phi-4: 14 B params, ECI 130.4, released 2024-12-12
Phi-4
R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: 14 B params, ECI 135.4, released 2025-01-20
R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Qwen3-8B: 8 B params, ECI 136.2, released 2025-04-28
Qwen3-8B
Qwen3-14B: 14 B params, ECI 138.2, released 2025-04-29
Qwen3-14B
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking: 30 B params, ECI 139.6, released 2025-07-30
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking
Gemma4-31B: 31 B params, ECI 142.8, released 2026-04-02
Gemma4-31B
Qwen3.6-27B: 27 B params, ECI 146.5, released 2026-04-22
Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen3.8-27B: 27 B params, ECI 149.4, released 2026-08-14
Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B
capability floor: ≤151.8 (GLM-5.2)
2.4 ECI to go
GLM-5.2: 744B, ECI 151.8, released 2026-06-16
GLM-5.2 (744B)
GLM-5.3: 744B, ECI 155.8, released 2026-08-14
GLM-5.3 (744B)
least-squares fit to the best small model available at each date
best at its release
other notable models