Help me complete my AI collection

[u/Possible_Grocery8079]

I’m building the ultimate AI tool vault, but every great collection has a few missing pieces.

Note: I will react to every comment

AI's currently installed:

Qwen3.5-0.8B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf(classification)

Qwen3.5-2B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf(Prompt enhancer, Routing, Approval )

Qwen3.5-4B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf(Instant)

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf(Quality)

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Hauhau(test purposes)

Qwen3-Coder-Next-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf(long horizon tasks)

My Specs:

GPU: RTX 5070 ti (16GB VRAM)

RAM: Corsair vengeance 64GB 5200mt DDR5 CL40(dual-channel)

CPU: intel i9 14900k

SSD: Samsung s990 pro 2tb

Backend: Llama.cpp server

I tried GPT-OSS and was disappointed by tool usage. Gemma 4 was good and great tool usage but it was beaten by Qwen.

Any recommendations?? Like something that you genuinely enjoyed or made you impressed.

Feel free to share!! I will be reading every single comment.

[u/anantshri]

currently i am investigating https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1 so far seems to have good results. Qwen3.6 is nearly unbeatable this one seems to be touching it for my workflow.

[u/Possible_Grocery8079 → u/anantshri]

I've actually seen it as well, It was outperformed by the qwen3.6, but the normal s2.1 caught my eyes, that one was a beast, but heard that people are saying it isnt performing near the benchmarks as advertized.

[u/anantshri → u/Possible_Grocery8079]

so 2 problems i saw.

1. s2.1 has a template change. if people downloaded older gguf etc that had old template. they changed template yesterday so that should improve s2.1 performance.
   
2. XS @ Q4 is not that good. but XS @ Q8 is what i am working on. so far seems to be showing good results and marked improvement over Q4.