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New TodayMistral AI

Mistral Large 4 arrives as a trillion-param MoE

The new flagship is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with roughly 49B active parameters per token.

Oct 6, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
Datacenter
Read the story
Parameters
1000B · MoE
Active params
49B active
License
OTHER

OpenAI/Text / LLMMulti-GPU server

Reflection releases Beam, a 501B open-weight model

The startup's first frontier-scale model ships with downloadable weights and a mixture-of-experts design aimed at reasoning.

Oct 5, 2026
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
DeepSeek/Text / LLMDatacenter

DeepSeek Releases V4-Pro, an MIT-Licensed MoE Model

The company's newest flagship targets reasoning and coding while keeping a permissive open-source license.

Aug 13, 2026
Muse Glimmer 30B
Meta AI/Vision-LanguageConsumer GPU

Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B Targets Local Agentic Coding

A 30-billion-parameter multimodal model built to run locally, released under Apache 2.0 with an eye on agentic coding workflows.

Aug 10, 2026

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Tencent/Vision-LanguageRuns on a laptop

Tencent's Youtu-Parsing-Omni tackles docs, audio, video

A new open-weights parsing model from Tencent extends OCR beyond the page into audio and video inputs.

Oct 9, 2026
Vision-LanguageAny-to-Any
Youtu-Parsing-Omni
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo targets faster generation

Alibaba's Qwen team ships a distilled, few-step variant of its image model built for speed.

Oct 9, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
Xiaomi/Vision-Language

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 bets on RL for self-improvement

The omni-modal model family leans on reinforcement learning to push reasoning without endless new supervised data.

Oct 7, 2026
ReasoningAny-to-Any
LiquidAI/Vision-LanguageRuns anywhere

Liquid AI's d1-3B brings multimodal models to the edge

The new LFM2-based d1-3B is a compact vision-language model aimed at running decisions directly on-device.

Oct 7, 2026
Vision-Language
LFM2 d1-3B
NVIDIA/Speech → Text

TII Brings Falcon to Speech With New ASR Model

The team behind the Falcon language models expands into speech-to-text with its first automatic speech recognition release.

Oct 7, 2026
Speech → Text
IBM/Speech → Text

TII extends the Falcon family into speech recognition

The Abu Dhabi lab behind the Falcon language models releases Falcon ASR, an open speech-to-text system.

Oct 7, 2026
Speech → Text

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2

Text / LLM · 4.7M downloads

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Zhipu AI

GLM-5.3-Flash

Text / LLM · 6.5M downloads

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Prism Ml

Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B

Text / LLM · 4.6M downloads

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Thinkingmachines

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Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3.8-27B

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MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.2-instruct-78b
52.1
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MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.1-instruct-78b
51.3
3
dfurman/CalmeRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1
51.2
4
MaziyarPanahi/calme-2.4-rys-78b
50.8
5
huihui-ai/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-abliterated
48.1
6
Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Qwen · Alibaba
48.0
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Text → Image →
Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
Qwen · Alibaba/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo targets faster generation

Alibaba's Qwen team ships a distilled, few-step variant of its image model built for speed.

Oct 9, 2026
Code →
MiMo-V2.6
Xiaomi/Vision-LanguageRuns on a laptop

Xiaomi distills MiMo V2.6 into a 9B model

The new MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B targets agentic workloads, coding, and tool use in a size that fits on modest hardware.

Sep 21, 2026
Text → Video →
Unknown/Text → VideoConsumer GPU

Kandinsky 6.0 Generates Video and Audio Together

Kandinsky Lab's new foundation models produce synchronized sound and motion from a text prompt, in 3B and 29B sizes.

Oct 3, 2026
Vision-Language →
Youtu-Parsing-Omni
Tencent/Vision-LanguageRuns on a laptop

Tencent's Youtu-Parsing-Omni tackles docs, audio, video

A new open-weights parsing model from Tencent extends OCR beyond the page into audio and video inputs.

Oct 9, 2026
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AnnouncedAug 26, 2026

Qwen Teases 3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B Sparse MoE

Alibaba's next Qwen release pairs a large parameter pool with a tiny active footprint, promising speed without the full compute bill.

Qwen · Alibaba·Text / LLM
AnnouncedSep 9, 2026

DeepSeek Announces V4.1 Flash, a Cheaper Reasoning Model

The new mixture-of-experts model is billed as more capable than V4 Pro while costing less to run, and ships under an MIT license.

DeepSeek·Text / LLM
Announced

Zing-0.5 aims for playable worlds in real time

A 5B-parameter autoregressive world model blends action and text control to generate interactive environments on the fly.

Unknown·Any-to-Any