Models

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is Baidu's openly published base checkpoint from November 2026: a text-only sparse mixture-of-experts model with 280B total and 14B activated parameters, released for fine-tuning rather than as a finished assistant.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is Nvidia's free, open-weight speech transcription model, released on 28 October 2026. It handles recordings up to an hour long, transcribes up to 40 languages and can separate up to eight speakers.

Open sourceMultimodalHardware & compute

PLaMo 3 Translate is a family of translation-specialised language models from Preferred Networks, released in four sizes from 0.8B to 31B parameters, covering 53 languages and shipping in several quantised formats.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

LFM3-Omni-2B is Liquid AI's first omni-modal model in the LFM3 family: one 2.17-billion-parameter model that reads text, images, video and audio and answers in text or speech.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

Jais-3-7B is a dense 7B Arabic-and-English model from the Institute of Foundation Models, with a 512,000-token context window, a single-GPU footprint of about 18 GB, and reasoning returned in a separate field.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

Jais-3-MoVA-36B-A4B is an Arabic-centric mixture-of-experts model from the Institute of Foundation Models: 36 billion parameters, 4 billion active per token, a 512,000-token context and a mixture-of-values attention scheme.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

Jais-3-375B-A23B is an open-weight Arabic-focused mixture-of-experts model from the Institute of Foundation Models: 375 billion parameters stored, 23 billion active per token, a 512,000-token context window and Apache 2.0 weights.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

Muse Spark Open is Meta's open-weight large language model, announced on 15 October 2026. With 816 billion total parameters, it is built for coding and agentic work, and its weights can be downloaded, unlike the closed Muse Spark that started the family.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

Mistral Large 4 is Mistral AI's flagship open-weight model, with about 1 trillion total parameters, a 1M-token context window and native multimodality. It was previewed on 6 October 2026, and an improved version's weights followed on 29 October 2026.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Kolibri-1 is Aleph Alpha's open-weight German–English mixture-of-experts model: 78.1 billion parameters with 3.46 billion active per token, a 1,048,576-token context window, and weights that fit on a single H200 or B200.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from MiniMax with about 428B total parameters, 23B activated per token, text, image and video input and up to 1M tokens of context, released on Hugging Face in October 2026.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's October 2026 open-weights model, the first in the K3.1 series, built for financial research, 3D modeling and coding. It keeps K3's mixture-of-experts scale but swaps in sparse attention layers.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

OpenAI's late-2026 model family: Sol, released at DevDay on 29 September 2026, and the faster, cheaper Terra on 26 October 2026. A planned Astra version was withheld over safety concerns.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, released on 10 September 2026 under the API name deepseek-flash, is a 552-billion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a causal encoder-decoder design and a 1M-token context.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

K2 Horizon is a family of six open language models from the Institute of Foundation Models, released in September 2026 with weights, code, training data and recipes under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

Tencent Hy4 preview is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model released on 28 August 2026 with 770 billion total parameters, 49 billion active and a context of over one million tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Granite 4.2 is IBM's open-weight model generation, released on 25 August 2026 in 3B, 8B and 30B dense sizes, with a reasoning-capable 8B model under the permissive Apache-2.0 licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

SenseNova U1.5 is SenseTime's open-weight, 8-billion-parameter model that handles image understanding, reasoning and native 4K generation in a single network, without separate vision encoders or VAEs. It is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

GLM-5.3 is Zhipu's open-weight language model released on 14 August 2026. It keeps the GLM-5.2 base model and gains its improvements from post-training, with reported state-of-the-art open results on agentic coding and cybersecurity benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Qwen3.8 is Alibaba's 2026 flagship line. Its open 2.4-trillion-parameter model, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, released in August 2026, has 95B active parameters and a custom license.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

The fastest model in Google's Gemini 3.5 series, released in July 2026 for high-throughput agentic work, and slated to replace gemini-3.1-flash-lite and take over traffic from gemini-2.5-flash.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

Grok 4.5 is an xAI model built for coding, agentic and knowledge work, announced on 16 July 2026. It was trained with Cursor on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs and shipped as the default model in the Grok Build coding tool.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

Inkling is the first model released by Thinking Machines Lab: a 975B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with open weights, native text, image and audio input, and a context window of up to 1M tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Robostral Navigate is Mistral AI's first embodied navigation model: an 8-billion-parameter system that steers wheeled, legged or flying robots from RGB images and a plain-language instruction, using a single ordinary camera and no depth sensor.

RoboticsComputer visionEurope

Tencent Hy3 is an open-weight reasoning model released on 6 July 2026 under Apache 2.0, with 295 billion total parameters, 21 billion active and a 256K context.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Zhipu's open-weight language model released in June 2026 under the MIT License, with a 1M-token context, a shared sparse-attention indexer, and higher reasoning and coding scores than GLM-5.1.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

A mixture-of-experts language model released by MiniMax in June 2026, with about 428B total parameters, a 1M-token context window and a new sparse attention scheme built for long-context and agent-style work. [^1]

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Step 3.7 Flash is a StepFun open-weights model released on 29 May 2026. It adds native image input to Step 3.5 Flash, supports a 256K context, and is licensed under Apache 2.0.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

MiniCPM5 is a series of small, dense, open-weight language models from the MiniCPM team, beginning with a 1B model released in May 2026 and followed by a 2B model in September 2026, all aimed at on-device and other resource-constrained deployment.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Stability AI's 2026 audio generation family: three open-weight models and a hosted flagship, able to generate and edit music and sound effects up to about six minutes long.

Open sourceEnterpriseGenerative models

Command A+ is Cohere's open-source mixture-of-experts language model, released on 20 May 2026 under the Apache 2.0 licence with 218 billion total and 25 billion active parameters, aimed at sovereign and critical-infrastructure deployments.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Laguna XS.2 is Poolside's first open-weight coding model: 33 billion total parameters with 3 billion active per token, released under Apache 2.0 and trained on 30 trillion tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

A 128B-parameter open-weights multimodal model from Mistral AI, listed in April 2026 for agentic and coding work, briefly the default in Le Chat before being superseded by Mistral Large 4.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

SenseNova U1 is SenseTime's open-weight multimodal model family, first released in April 2026 under Apache 2.0, which understands and generates images without a separate visual encoder or VAE.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Released on 16 April 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7 added an xhigh effort level and accepted much larger images. It was the first model to test automatic blocking of high-risk cybersecurity requests.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

EXAONE 4.5 is LG AI Research's first open-weight vision language model: a 33-billion-parameter model with a 1.2-billion-parameter vision encoder, trained on documents and text, with a 256K-token context window, released in April 2026.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

GLM-5.1 is Zhipu AI's open-source large language model released in April 2026, built for coding and long-running agent tasks and notable for topping SWE-Bench Pro ahead of competing frontier models in Zhipu's own comparison.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Gemma 4 is Google's fourth generation of open-weight models, released in April 2026 and built on the same research and technology as Gemini 3, ranging from phone-sized E2B and E4B to a 26B mixture-of-experts and a 31B dense model.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

A generation of Alibaba's Qwen models released in April 2026, spanning proprietary Plus and Max versions aimed at agentic coding and open-weight models such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts with 3B active parameters.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight Moonshot AI model released in April 2026, focused on long-horizon coding, with a 262,144-token context, text and image input, and Agent Swarm scaled to 300 sub-agents.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Voxtral TTS is Mistral AI's first text-to-speech model, released in March 2026: about 4B parameters, nine languages, cloning from a three-second clip, open weights for non-commercial use and an API priced per character.

Open sourceConsumer appsGenerative models

An open reasoning vision-language-action model from NVIDIA for humanoid robots, announced in March 2026 as commercially usable and trained on large public robot manipulation datasets.

Open sourceFoundation modelsRobotics

Mistral Small 4 is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model released in March 2026 that folds instruction-following, step-by-step reasoning and agentic coding into one model, with a switch that controls how much reasoning it does.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Reka Edge is a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model from Reka AI, released on 11 March 2026, built to take images, video and text and to run locally on laptops, phones and small edge devices.

Open sourceMultimodalRobotics

Ai2's fully open 7B model, which mixes Transformer attention with Gated DeltaNet linear recurrent layers and matches its predecessor's MMLU accuracy using 49% fewer training tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceDeep learning

Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is Microsoft's 15-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model, released on 4 March 2026 under the MIT licence, built to switch between step-by-step reasoning for math and science and direct answers for image perception tasks.

Open sourceMultimodalReasoning

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is a low-cost, low-latency multimodal model in Google's Gemini 3 family, released in preview in March 2026 and generally available from May 2026 for high-frequency, lightweight tasks.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

MiniMax-M2.7 is a 229B-parameter language model released by MiniMax in March 2026, built for agentic work and presented by the company as its first model to take part in its own improvement.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Qwen3.5 is a natively multimodal model family from Alibaba released in February 2026. Its open flagship, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, has 397B total parameters and 17B active per token, under Apache 2.0.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

MiniMax-M2.5 is an open-weight 229B-parameter language model released in February 2026 for agentic coding and office work, shipped alongside a faster Lightning variant and reported at the top of software-engineering benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Step 3.5 Flash is an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts language model from StepFun, released in February 2026 with 196 billion total parameters, a 256K-token context and an Apache 2.0 license.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Kimi K2.5 is a natively multimodal open-weight model from Moonshot AI, released on 27 January 2026. It has 1 trillion total parameters, a 256K-token context and an Agent Swarm feature for parallel sub-agents.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Baichuan-M3 is a new-generation open-source medical-enhanced language model with 235 billion parameters, built on Qwen3-235B-A22B and released under Apache 2.0 in January 2026.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 is an open family of hybrid mixture-of-experts language models, announced in December 2025 in Nano, Super and Ultra sizes, with up to one million tokens of context.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

Molmo 2 is the second generation of Ai2's open vision-language models, released on 11 December 2025, which extends the Molmo line from still images to video with pointing, tracking and timestamped answers.

Open sourceMultimodalComputer vision

Solar Open 100B is Upstage's open-weight mixture-of-experts language model for English and Korean, released in December 2025 with 102.6 billion total parameters, 12 billion active per token, and a custom licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Devstral 2 is Mistral AI's 123B-parameter agentic coding model, released in December 2025 alongside the Mistral Vibe CLI and scoring 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified. It was deprecated in May 2026 and retired that July, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools