Interesting they are releasing a tiny (30B) variant, unlike the 4.5-air distill which was 106B parameters. It must be competing with gpt mini and nano models, which personally I have found to be pretty weak. But this could be perfect for local LLM use cases.

In my ime small tier models are good for simple tasks like translation and trivia answering, but are useless for anything more complex. 70B class and above is where models really start to shine.