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Latest Reasoning models

The newest open-source Reasoning releases, from across the ecosystem.

21 releases

Zhipu AI/Text / LLMMajor release

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
GLM-5.2
GLM-5.2
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
CodeText / LLM
VibeThinker-3B
VibeThinker-3B
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
CodeAny-to-Any
MiniMax-M3
MiniMax-M3
NVIDIA/Any-to-Any

NVIDIA Releases Efficient Nemotron-3 Multimodal MoE

The new 30-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model handles text and images while using only 3 billion active parameters for inference.

Apr 24, 2026
Any-to-AnyReasoning
Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning
Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning
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
CodeText / LLM
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek/Text / LLMMajor release

DeepSeek Releases V4-Flash, a Fast MIT-Licensed MoE Model

The new Mixture of Experts model from the Beijing-based AI lab is optimized for fast, efficient conversational AI and carries a fully permissive license.

Apr 22, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
NVIDIA/Any-to-Any

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-3-Nano Omni-Modal MoE

The new 30-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model handles any combination of modalities with just 3 billion active parameters.

Apr 20, 2026
Any-to-AnyReasoning
Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning
Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning
Qwen · Alibaba/Vision-LanguageMajor release

Qwen Releases 35B Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts Model

The new Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from Alibaba's Qwen team combines vision and language capabilities using an efficient sparse architecture.

Apr 15, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen3.6-27B
MiniMax/Text / LLM

MiniMax Releases M2.7, an MoE Model with FP8 Weights

The new conversational language model from the Chinese AI company uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and 8-bit weights, but is released under a restrictive custom license.

Apr 9, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
MiniMax-M2.7
MiniMax-M2.7
Zhipu AI/Text / LLMMajor release

Zhipu AI Releases Open-Source GLM-5 MoE Model

The new Mixture-of-Experts model from the Chinese AI company combines an advanced architecture with a fully permissive MIT license for commercial use.

Feb 11, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
GLM-5
GLM-5
Moonshot AI/Vision-LanguageMajor release

Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.5 Multimodal Model

The new vision-language model from the Chinese AI firm uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and is now available on Hugging Face.

Jan 1, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
Kimi K2.5
Kimi K2.5
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
CodeText / LLM
MiniMax-M2
MiniMax-M2
Zhipu AI/Text / LLMMajor release

Zhipu AI Releases Open-Weight MoE Model GLM-4.6

The new Mixture-of-Experts model is available under a permissive MIT license and is optimized for complex reasoning and coding tasks.

Sep 29, 2025
Text / LLMReasoning
GLM-4.6
GLM-4.6
Qwen · Alibaba/Any-to-Any

Qwen Releases 'Thinking' Multimodal MoE Model

The new 30-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model from Alibaba's Qwen team is designed to show its reasoning process for complex multimodal tasks.

Sep 15, 2025
Any-to-AnyReasoning
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking
DeepSeek/Text / LLMMajor release

DeepSeek Releases 671B MoE Model Under MIT License

The new DeepSeek-V3.1-Base is a massive 671-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model designed for efficient, large-scale research and development.

Aug 19, 2025
Text / LLMReasoning
DeepSeek-V3.1-Base
DeepSeek-V3.1-Base
Zhipu AI/Vision-LanguageMajor release

Zhipu AI Releases Open Vision Model GLM-4.5V

The new Mixture-of-Experts model offers strong multimodal reasoning capabilities under a permissive MIT license.

Aug 10, 2025
ReasoningVision-Language
GLM-4.5V
GLM-4.5V
OpenAI/ReasoningMajor release

OpenAI Releases 21B Open-Weight MoE Model

The new `gpt-oss-20b` is an Apache 2.0-licensed Mixture-of-Experts model designed to run efficiently on consumer-grade hardware.

Aug 4, 2025
Text / LLMReasoning
gpt-oss-20b
gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI/ReasoningMajor release

OpenAI Releases Its First Open-Source MoE Model

The new 117-billion-parameter `gpt-oss-120b` is a Mixture-of-Experts model focused on reasoning, released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Aug 4, 2025
Text / LLMReasoning
gpt-oss-20b
gpt-oss-20b
Zhipu AI/ReasoningMajor 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
CodeText / LLM
GLM-4.5
GLM-4.5
Moonshot AI/Text / LLMMajor release

Moonshot AI Releases Trillion-Parameter Kimi-K2 Model

The new Mixture-of-Experts model brings massive scale to the open-weights community, focusing on complex reasoning and coding tasks with a 128K context window.

Jul 11, 2025
Text / LLMReasoning
Kimi-K2-Instruct
Kimi-K2-Instruct
Zhipu AI/Vision-Language

Zhipu AI Open-Sources 9B Vision Model with 'Thinking' Mode

The new GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking model makes its vision and chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities available under a permissive MIT license.

Jun 28, 2025
ReasoningVision-Language
GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
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