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Pick it for an edge-native model with native tool calling and a 128K context window
Pick it for fast, agentic workflows and coding with only 3B active parameters
Pick it for higher quality reasoning and math if your hardware can handle 14B parameters
People love: People feel it is worth the money
People love: Popular for coding help
People love: Good at writing and wording things