When is the next generation of "B tier" models releasing?

The only things released in the last couple weeks seem to be bigger models like Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, etc. Where are the Laguna's, Nemotrons, Olmo's, LongCats, Minimax, etc releases?

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2026-09-27 06:35 · r/LocalLLaMA
When is the next generation of "B tier" models releasing?

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