Comment by janalsncm

People ask this question a lot and annoyingly the answer is: there are many definitions of “best”. Speed, capabilities (e.g. do you want it to be able to handle images or just text?), quality, etc.

It’s like asking what the best pair of shoes is.

Go on Ollama and look at the most popular models. You can decide for yourself what you value.

And start small, these things are GBs in size so you don’t want to wait an hour for a download only to find out a model runs at 1 token / second.