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Latest Code models

Open-weight coding models for autocomplete, refactoring, and agentic development — the engines behind self-hosted copilots and local code assistants.

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Kwaipilot/Code

Kwaipilot Releases KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev, an Agentic MoE Coder

Kuaishou's coding team ships an open mixture-of-experts model built on the Qwen3.5 MoE architecture and tuned for agentic development work.

Jul 23, 2026
CodeText / LLM
KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev
Poolside/Code

Poolside releases Laguna-S-2.1 coding model

The AI coding startup puts a version of its Laguna family on Hugging Face under the permissive OpenMDW license.

Jul 13, 2026
CodeText / LLM
Laguna-S-2.1
Deepreinforce Ai/Text / LLM

DeepReinforce's Ornith-1.0-9B Targets Agentic Coding

A compact, MIT-licensed 9B model built for autonomous coding tasks arrives on Hugging Face.

Jun 21, 2026
CodeText / LLM
Ornith 1.0 35B
Deepreinforce Ai/Text / LLM

Ornith-1.0-35B brings a mid-size MoE to agentic coding

An MIT-licensed mixture-of-experts model targets self-scaffolding code tasks without the footprint of a frontier system.

Jun 21, 2026
CodeText / LLM
Ornith 1.0 35B
Poolside/Code

Poolside releases Laguna XS 2.1 code model

The compact, code-focused language model arrives on Hugging Face under an open model license.

Jun 20, 2026
CodeText / LLM
Laguna-XS-2.1
Poolside/Text / LLM

Poolside Releases Laguna-M.1, an Open MoE Model

The AI coding startup steps into open weights with an Apache-2.0 mixture-of-experts model built for text and code.

Jun 15, 2026
Text / LLMCode
Laguna-M.1
Microsoft/Text / LLM

Microsoft's FastContext is a 4B sub-agent for code

A compact Qwen3-derived model built to explore repositories, released under a permissive MIT license.

Jun 14, 2026
Text / LLMCode
FastContext 1.0 4B SFT
WeiboAI/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
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
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
MiniMax/Vision-LanguageMajor release

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
Vision-LanguageAny-to-Any
MiniMax-M3
OpenBMB/Code

Needle: A 26M-Parameter Model Built for Tool Calling

Cactus Compute distilled Gemini's tool-calling behavior into a tiny model meant to run locally.

May 12, 2026
CodeText / LLM
Moonshot AI/Vision-LanguageMajor release

Kimi K2.6 tops closed models in coding test

Moonshot AI's open-weights mixture-of-experts model reportedly outperformed Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini on a programming challenge.

May 3, 2026
CodeText / LLM
DeepSeek/Text / LLMMajor release

DeepSeek Releases V4-Pro, an Open MoE Contender

The new flagship model combines a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with a permissive MIT license, positioning it for wide commercial adoption.

Apr 22, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Cactus Compute/Code

Needle: A 26M-Param Model Built for On-Device Tool Calls

Cactus Compute's tiny encoder-decoder is distilled specifically for function calling at the edge, trading general chat for a narrow, useful job.

Mar 16, 2026
Text / LLMCode
Needle
Qwen · Alibaba/Code

Qwen Releases Coder-Next, A New Open MoE Coding Model

The new model from Alibaba's Qwen team uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and is released under the commercially-friendly Apache 2.0 license.

Jan 30, 2026
CodeText / LLM
Qwen3-Coder-Next
MiniMax/Text / LLMMajor release

MiniMax Releases M2, an Open-Weight MoE for Agents

The Shanghai-based AI startup has released a new Mixture-of-Experts model focused on complex reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks.

Oct 22, 2025
Text / LLMReasoning
MiniMax-M2.7
Qwen · Alibaba/Code

Qwen Releases Compact 30B MoE for Coding Agents

The new Apache 2.0 model from Alibaba's Qwen team uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to deliver strong performance with only 3B active parameters.

Jul 31, 2025
CodeText / LLM
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
Qwen · Alibaba/CodeMajor release

Qwen Releases 480B Open-Source Model for Code Agents

The new flagship coding model from Alibaba's Qwen team uses a massive Mixture-of-Experts architecture and is released under a permissive Apache-2.0 license.

Jul 22, 2025
CodeText / LLM
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
Zhipu AI/Text / LLMMajor release

Z.ai Releases 355B Parameter GLM-4.5 Under MIT License

The new Mixture-of-Experts model combines massive scale with a fully permissive license, targeting complex reasoning and agentic applications.

Jul 20, 2025
ReasoningText / LLM
GLM-4.6