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What is the primary workload?
Select the task that best represents your first deployment target.
Which modalities do you need?
Choose the minimum capability required for the application.
What hardware profile do you have?
This strongly influences practical model size and precision.
How strict are your data-control requirements?
Deployment topology can be as important as model quality.
How much context do you need?
Long context can materially change KV-cache and throughput requirements.
How much customization do you expect?
Open weights are especially valuable when you need deeper adaptation.
What matters most operationally?
Model size should be chosen together with serving objectives.
How mature is your AI infrastructure?
Open-weight deployment shifts more responsibility to your team.
Your recommended model profile
Suggested scale
Deployment direction
What to evaluate next
Technical watch-outs
This output describes a model class, not a specific model recommendation. Benchmark several current models on your own workload, verify the authoritative license and model card, and test the exact runtime, precision and hardware combination before production use.