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New TodayMistral AI

Mistral Large 4 Arrives as a 1T-Parameter MoE

The new flagship pairs a trillion total parameters with 52B active per token and adds vision alongside multilingual text.

Oct 29, 2026
Text / LLMVision-Language
Datacenter
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Mistral Large 4 (1T-A52B)
Parameters
1000B · MoE
Active params
52B active
Context window
1.0M tokens

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017)
DeepSeek/Vision-LanguageDatacenter

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Adds Vision and Reasoning

The new MIT-licensed checkpoint folds image understanding and reasoning into DeepSeek's fast, mixture-of-experts Flash line.

Oct 17, 2026
Meta AI/Any-to-Any

Meta's Muse Spark Open Targets Agentic Coding

The new open-weight model pairs a million-token context window with Meta's bet on long-horizon coding agents.

Oct 15, 2026
FLUX.3 Image Klein
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs ships FLUX.3 Image Klein

The latest open image model from the FLUX team handles both text-to-image generation and editing, and arrives ready to run in Diffusers.

Oct 13, 2026

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Microsoft/Vision-LanguageRuns on a laptop

Microsoft's Mage-VL-Cowork takes on computer-use tasks

A new vision-language agent model aims to operate GUIs, write code, and work the terminal.

Oct 30, 2026
Vision-Language
Mage-VL-Cowork
IBM/Any-to-Any

IBM's Granite Switch Treats Models Like Software

A new Apache-2.0 release reframes enterprise LLMs as components you can swap and update in place.

Oct 29, 2026
Text / LLM
Baidu/Vision-LanguageRuns anywhere

Baidu releases Unlimited-OCR 2 under MIT license

The multilingual vision-language model targets document text recognition and ships with a permissive license for commercial use.

Oct 26, 2026
Vision-Language
Unlimited-OCR 2
Nanbeige/Text / LLMConsumer GPU

Nanbeige 4.3 Arrives as a 33B Bilingual Model

A dense English–Chinese language model lands under Apache 2.0, aimed at teams that want permissive licensing at mid-size scale.

Oct 24, 2026
Text / LLM
Nanbeige4.3-33B
LiquidAI/Text / LLMRuns anywhere

Liquid AI debuts LFM3-1.7B for edge deployment

A compact 1.7B-parameter multilingual model built to run locally and serve as the base for specialized multimodal variants.

Oct 23, 2026
Text / LLM
LFM3-1.7B
LiquidAI/Any-to-AnyRuns anywhere

Liquid AI's LFM3-Omni-2B brings any-to-any AI to the edge

The 2-billion-parameter model combines vision, audio and speech-to-speech in a package small enough to run on device.

Oct 21, 2026
Any-to-AnyVision-Language
LFM3-Omni-2B

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Baidu

Unlimited-OCR

Vision-Language · 4.1M downloads

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2

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2

Text / LLM · 6.6M downloads

+988.1K
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MiniMax

MiniMax-H3

Text → Video · 5.9M downloads

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k2-fsa

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Text → Speech · 2.9M downloads

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Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3.8-27B

Vision-Language · 4.6M downloads

+650.3K

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MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.2-instruct-78b
52.1
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MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.1-instruct-78b
51.3
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dfurman/CalmeRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1
51.2
4
MaziyarPanahi/calme-2.4-rys-78b
50.8
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huihui-ai/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-abliterated
48.1
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Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Qwen · Alibaba
48.0
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Text → Image →
Fibo 2.0-dev
Briaai/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Bria's Fibo 2.0 Brings Structured Prompts to Open Image AI

The new text-to-image and editing model leans on structured prompts and multi-reference inputs for more controllable generation.

Oct 18, 2026
Code →
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
MiniMax/Vision-LanguageMulti-GPU server

MiniMax Debuts M3.1 Flash, a Multimodal MoE Model

The new release pairs a mixture-of-experts design with agentic, coding, and video-understanding abilities in a single open model.

Oct 17, 2026
Text → Video →
Hy-Nomas
Tencent/Text → Video

Tencent Releases Hy-Nomas, an Interactive Video World Model

The open-weights model pairs text- and image-to-video generation with action-aware causal attention and explicit camera control.

Oct 21, 2026
Vision-Language →
Mage-VL-Cowork
Microsoft/Vision-LanguageRuns on a laptop

Microsoft's Mage-VL-Cowork takes on computer-use tasks

A new vision-language agent model aims to operate GUIs, write code, and work the terminal.

Oct 30, 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
AnnouncedNov 4, 2026

Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro Debuts, Weights Due Nov 4

The reasoning-focused model is live via API now, with Moonshot promising full open weights in early November.

Moonshot AI·Text / LLM