I'd definitely like someone to champion an open-weights model under 32 GB. But part of that desire is - I'm not sure they're there, yet. Local models are only a few months behind, but hoo boy, the last few months have been big.

Coding models could be tiny, but distilled versions keep preserving pop-culture knowledge and world history, when reasoning through C++ requires essentially none of that. It needs the tokenization to recognize why a comment begins "Jesus Christ." It's fine for "treat the hash like Lot's wife" to go completely over its head. Keep the weights that know a regex for e-mails, not the capitol of Florida. If it speaks a dead language I want it to be Algol.