A 16 GB Mac got no model: the two 9B builds of the catalogue need 10.2 GB at
65,536 tokens, 0.987 of the estimated budget, just past the 0.98 a tight fit
may reach.
New row `ornith:9b-q4_k_m` (Ornith 1.0 9B, MIT), a fine-tune of Qwen3.5-9B for
coding agents whose GGUF build has no vision projector: 5.63 GB against 6.55 GB,
so 9.3 GB at 65,536 tokens, 0.898 of that budget. SWE-bench Verified 69.4,
SWE-bench Pro 42.9, Terminal-Bench 2.1 43.1 on Ornith's card. Its config.json
and its GGUF header are those of Qwen3.5-9B (no prediction layer), so it shares
the figures of the two other 9B rows. Never run on a Mac: `estimated`.
- What changes for a Mac: 16 GB goes from no model to `limited` with this row,
tight. That is the only pick that changes: the row is ranked under MiMo V2.6
9B, so every Mac that could already run a 9B keeps its pick and gains an
alternative. With the budget a 16 GB Mac mini measured (10.7 GB) the pick is
MiMo as before.
- Why under MiMo although its own card's numbers are higher: the two vendors'
tables put their common base 7 points apart, and runtime issue 16992 (open)
was filed on the 35B sibling, which has the same renderer and parser. The
35B stays set aside.
- The 16 GB rule itself is untouched: same budget estimate, same 0.98, same
eight context checkpoints.
- Ranks renumbered 1 to 10; the pins of test/local-model-recommend.test.ts and
the table of docs/local-models.md follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer
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