Using OpenWebUI (gema 3.1b model) will not search web
Hugging Face Forums [Unofficial]
March 16, 2026
I see. I’m an old guy too.
When it comes to small models around 1B, besides Gemma 3, the Liquid LFM and Qwen 3/3.5 are also excellent options. The Liquid models seem to have a particularly good reputation because they’re fine-tuned specifically for edge devices.
https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm25
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