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Ornith 1.0 9B
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RANKED #163 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #219 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.6 · 617 VOICES ·
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Ornith-1.0-9B-abliterated-NVFP4 on Hugging Face (image text to text). 3,531 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.6
3 mentions
SAD5.4
5 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 617 voices in this window
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Ornith 1.0 9B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
9B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF is about 5.8 GB, full BF16 is ~18 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$220 USEDQ4_K_M quant with full GPU offload up to 32k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac mini (M4, 16GB)
16 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$599 NEWQ6_K quant in LM Studio/MLX with comfortable 32k context
- FULL POWER
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1600 USEDFull BF16 precision or Q8_0 quant with extended 64k+ context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN ORNITH 1.0 9B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Ornith 1.0 9B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac mini (M4, 16GB) | FULL POWERNvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~11 S★★★★★ | ~14 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~43 S★★★★★ | ~18 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~12 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.9 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Ornith 1.0 9B yet to call it. We found 617 posts but people did not say much either way.
51 POSTS · 566 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · DEV.TO · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Ornith 1.0 9B.
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Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-07-19 · 143 UPVOTESOrnith Unsloth GGUFs out now!
Ornith Unsloth GGUFs out now!
- REDDIT · 2026-08-11 · 83 UPVOTESI built a weird, low-power llama.cpp server using an Intel N100 + RTX 5060Ti
I built a weird, low-power llama.cpp server using an Intel N100 + RTX 5060Ti
- REDDIT · 2026-09-28 · 57 UPVOTESLiked Muse, so I cut the 30B model in half by width, distilled it back, and it does 57 of 60 tool tasks its parent does 60 of
Liked Muse, so I cut the 30B model in half by width, distilled it back, and it does 57 of 60 tool tasks its parent does 60 of
- REDDIT · 2026-07-31 · 11 UPVOTESIs Ornith 1.0 9B Reliable Enough for Complex Backend Development?
Is Ornith 1.0 9B Reliable Enough for Complex Backend Development?
- REDDIT · 2026-08-20 · 8 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-08-20 · 8 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-08-20 · 4 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-08-14 · 3 UPVOTESSmall tool to batch benchmark local models!
Small tool to batch benchmark local models!
- REDDIT · 2026-08-20 · 3 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- GITHUB · 2026-08-23 · 2 UPVOTESchore(deps): maintenance F-98/F-123 — llama.cpp b10590 + paquets Python latest
chore(deps): maintenance F-98/F-123 — llama.cpp b10590 + paquets Python latest
- LEMMY · 2026-08-19 · 2 UPVOTESOrnith 1.5 (Qwen finetunes for coding) released 9b, 35b-a3b, and 397b-a17b
Ornith 1.5 (Qwen finetunes for coding) released 9b, 35b-a3b, and 397b-a17b
- GITHUB · 2026-08-21 · 0 UPVOTESEvaluate Ornith 1.5 and Qwen 3.6 on the dev-workflow matrix (prior rejections predate the current stack)
Evaluate Ornith 1.5 and Qwen 3.6 on the dev-workflow matrix (prior rejections predate the current stack)