ConwayResearch/Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0
text-generation model by ConwayResearch
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Qwen3.8-27B in under 8 GB, tuned to keep tool calling intact. A standard GGUF for stock llama.cpp. Read more: underdog.ai/saluki Try Saluki today in underdog.ai Add vision. Download the vision add-on too, and pass it with --mmproj. Then send images through the OpenAI chat API as usual. --jinja turns on the Qwen3.8 chat template, which handles tool calls and thinking. The server speaks the OpenAI chat API on port 8080. Download the GGUF, then create a local Ollama model from it: Tested with Ollama 0.40.4 on Apple silicon: chat, thinking and tool calling work. Saluki ran in stock llama.cpp. Where we ran the full-size Qwen3.8-27B ourselves, it used the same harness and settings. Tool calling. Underdog Bench is 120 tasks from the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL v4), frozen…
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Model overview
ConwayResearch/Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0 is a text-generation model repository published by ConwayResearch on Hugging Face. The source reports the gguf library.
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Model facts
- Task
- text-generation
- Library
- gguf
- Recent downloads (30 days)
- 629,102
- Cumulative likes
- 667
- Hugging Face trending score
- 61
- Reported safetensors parameters
- Not reported
- Architecture
- Not reported
- License
- apache-2.0
- Access
- Not gated by Hugging Face
- Created
- 2026-10-08T01:47:26.000Z
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15T11:43:02.000Z
Compatibility and lineage
Reported languages: en
Reported base models: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF
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