A single 24GB GPU is the practical floor for serious local inference. This guide compares six open-weight models that fit one card at Q4_K_M. It covers Qwen3.6, Gemma 4, Mistral Small, gpt-oss-20b, and DeepSeek-R1-Disti…
Open-weights releases pressure closed pricing and widen access, changing the build-vs-buy math for the whole ecosystem.
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