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New TodayZhipu AI

Zhipu AI Releases MIT-Licensed GLM-5.2 MoE Model

The new bilingual model from the Chinese AI firm uses a Mixture of Experts architecture and sparse attention under a fully permissive license.

Jun 17, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
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MIT
Zhipu AI · Text / LLM
GLM-5.2
GLM-5.2
Params
— MoE
Context
—
License
MIT

Moonshot AI
Kimi-K2.7-Code
Kimi-K2.7-Code
Moonshot AI/Code

Moonshot AI Releases Kimi, a Multimodal Coding Model

The new Mixture-of-Experts model from the Chinese AI company can generate code while also understanding visual inputs, a rare combination in open models.

Jun 11, 2026
MiniMax
MiniMax-M3
MiniMax-M3
MiniMax/Vision-Language

MiniMax Releases M3, a Multimodal MoE Model

The new open-weight model from MiniMax AI combines vision, coding, and reasoning using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture.

Jun 2, 2026
Google DeepMind
Gemma 4 12B
Gemma 4 12B
Google DeepMind/Any-to-Any

Google Releases Gemma 4, a 12B 'Any-to-Any' Model

The new 12-billion-parameter model from Google DeepMind is designed to handle a flexible mix of data types, moving beyond traditional text and image inputs.

May 23, 2026
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Weibo AI/Reasoning

Weibo AI Releases VibeThinker-3B, a Compact Reasoning Model

The new 3-billion-parameter model from the Chinese tech giant focuses on challenging benchmarks in mathematics, coding, and graduate-level questions.

Jun 12, 2026
ReasoningText / LLM
VibeThinker-3B
VibeThinker-3B
Moonshot AI/CodeMajor release

Moonshot AI Releases Kimi, a Multimodal Coding Model

The new Mixture-of-Experts model from the Chinese AI company can generate code while also understanding visual inputs, a rare combination in open models.

Jun 11, 2026
CodeVision-Language
Kimi-K2.7-Code
Kimi-K2.7-Code
Zyphra/Text → Speech

Zyphra Releases Open-Source Zonos 2 TTS Model

The new text-to-speech model offers a commercially permissive alternative for developers in a field still dominated by closed-source APIs.

Jun 11, 2026
Text → Speech
Zonos 2
Zonos 2
Google DeepMind/Text / LLM

Google Releases Open-Source DiffusionGemma 26B Model

The new 26B parameter model from DeepMind uses a diffusion-based architecture, a technique more common in image generation, to produce text.

Jun 9, 2026
Text / LLMVision-Language
DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B Instruct
DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B Instruct
Zhipu AI/Image → Video

Zhipu AI Releases SCAIL-2 for Character Animation

The new open-source diffusion model from the company's research arm generates video clips from a single character image and a sequence of poses.

Jun 9, 2026
Image → Video
SCAIL-2
SCAIL-2
Cohere/Code

Cohere Releases North-Mini-Code, an Open MoE Model

The new Apache 2.0-licensed model is designed for code generation and agentic chat applications, using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture for efficiency.

Jun 5, 2026
CodeText / LLM
North-Mini-Code 1.0
North-Mini-Code 1.0

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Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Vision-Language · 5.7M downloads

2

Google DeepMind

Gemma 3 270M

Text / LLM · 5.6M downloads

3

OpenAI

gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning · 4.9M downloads

4

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3.6-27B

Vision-Language · 4.1M downloads

5

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4-Pro

Text / LLM · 2.8M downloads

Benchmarks

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1
MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.2-instruct-78b
52.1
2
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 →
Ideogram
Ideogram 4.0
Ideogram 4.0
Ideogram/Text → Image

Ideogram 4.0: A 9.3B Open-Weight Text-to-Image Model

The new 9.3 billion parameter model uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture and excels at rendering coherent text within generated images.

May 30, 2026
Code →
Weibo AI
VibeThinker-3B
VibeThinker-3B
Weibo AI/Reasoning

Weibo AI Releases VibeThinker-3B, a Compact Reasoning Model

The new 3-billion-parameter model from the Chinese tech giant focuses on challenging benchmarks in mathematics, coding, and graduate-level questions.

Jun 12, 2026
Text → Video →
NVIDIA
SANA-WM Bidirectional
SANA-WM Bidirectional
NVIDIA/Image → Video

NVIDIA Releases SANA, a Camera-Controllable Video Model

The new model, SANA-WM, uses a bidirectional diffusion process to give creators fine-grained control over camera movement and video editing.

May 18, 2026
Vision-Language →
Moonshot AI
Kimi-K2.7-Code
Kimi-K2.7-Code
Moonshot AI/Code

Moonshot AI Releases Kimi, a Multimodal Coding Model

The new Mixture-of-Experts model from the Chinese AI company can generate code while also understanding visual inputs, a rare combination in open models.

Jun 11, 2026

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