Are 1B LLMs Going Away in 2026?

I don't know much about llms aside from downloading them through a frontend and running them on my laptop or potato phone. Google released gemma 4, but unlike gemma 3, there isn't a 1b model this time. Llama also had a 1b model before, but there doesn't seem to be a new one. Qwen 3.5 had a 1b (0.8b)

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I don't know much about llms aside from downloading them through a frontend and running them on my laptop or potato phone. Google released gemma 4, but unlike gemma 3, there isn't a 1b model this time. Llama also had a 1b model before, but there doesn't seem to be a new one. Qwen 3.5 had a 1b (0.8b)