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CategoriesAny-to-AnyText → VideoVision-LanguageText → SpeechReasoningText / LLMText → Image

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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

Releases

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
Text → Video
Unknown/Vision-Language

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-DSpark targets faster VLM inference

The new vision-language model from Liquid AI is tuned for accelerated inference, extending the company's LFM2 line into multimodal territory.

Sep 24, 2026
Vision-Language
Unknown/Text → Speech

Nari Labs Ships Qwen3-Based TTS and ASR Models

The startup pairs speech synthesis and recognition built on Qwen3, pitching accuracy, low latency, and lower cost.

Sep 14, 2026
Text → SpeechSpeech → Text
Unknown/ReasoningRuns on a laptop

ZGCM-1 arrives as a fully open 7B reasoning model

A compact foundation model targets math reasoning and agentic search with tool use, and its makers are releasing it fully open.

Sep 10, 2026
ReasoningText / LLM
Unknown/Text / LLMConsumer GPU

Occamy-1.0 targets long-horizon agent work at 35B

A new open 35B model is tuned for multi-step, co-working tasks rather than one-shot answers.

Sep 3, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
Unknown/Text / LLM

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-DSpark targets faster inference

The company's latest LFM2.5 variant promises up to 3.2x faster inference without leaning on cloud-scale hardware.

Aug 20, 2026
Text / LLM
Unknown/Text / LLMConsumer GPU

German consortium releases open 30B model Soofi S

A collaborative European effort ships a dense 30-billion-parameter model that claims top marks on both English and German benchmarks.

Jul 16, 2026
Text / LLM
Unknown/Any-to-Any

Boogu-Image-0.1 Brings Unified Multimodal to Open Source

A new Apache-licensed model family folds bilingual text-to-image generation and instruction editing into one system.

Jul 13, 2026
Any-to-AnyText → Image
Unknown/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Illustrious-XL v0.1 Arrives as Anime Image Base

A 3.5B-parameter SDXL derivative aims to become the go-to foundation for anime-style text-to-image fine-tunes.

Sep 25, 2024
Text → Image