The Open Weights
LatestModelsLeaderboardsCompanies
Subscribe
The Open Weights

The daily record of open-source AI. New model releases, leaderboards, and what's coming next — written for people who ship.

Refreshed every 12 hours

Discover

  • Latest releases
  • New today
  • Trending models

Browse

  • All models
  • Companies
  • Categories
  • Leaderboards

About

  • About
  • Editorial policy
  • RSS feed
  • Newsletter

© 2026 The Open Weights. An independent publication.

PrivacyTermsSMSAggregated by Claude · curated by humans.

Leaderboard

Community Favorites

The most-liked open-weight models on Hugging Face — a durable signal of community esteem spanning every modality, refreshed every 12 hours.

Source: Hugging Face Hub · Updated Aug 3, 2026 · 25 models
LLM IntelligenceText-to-ImageImage EditingText-to-VideoImage-to-VideoText-to-SpeechOpen LLMMost DownloadedCommunity Favorites
#ModelLikesDownloadsTask
1
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
Black Forest Labs
13.9K541Ktext to image
2
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
13.5K9.6Mtext generation
3
moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Moonshot AI
9.8K967.6Kimage text to text
4
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
Stability AI
8K1.5Mtext to image
5
CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4
7K443.7Ktext to image
6
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
6.6K11.9Mtext to speech
7
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
Meta AI
6.6K2Mtext generation
8
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
6.5K7.9Mtext generation
9
openai/whisper-large-v3
6K5.5Mautomatic speech recognition
10
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell
Black Forest Labs
5.5K224.2Ktext to image
11
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
5.4K1.6Mtext generation
12
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
5.2K257.6Msentence similarity
13
Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo
Qwen · Alibaba
5.1K1.1Mtext to image
14
openai/gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI
5.1K4.2Mtext generation
15
bigscience/bloom
5K10.7Ktext generation
16
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3-medium
Stability AI
5K8.7Ktext to image
17
openai/gpt-oss-20b
4.9K8.5Mtext generation
18
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
Meta AI
4.8K753.9Ktext generation
19
zai-org/GLM-5.2
Zhipu AI
4.8K2.2Mtext generation
20
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
4.8K1.8Mtext generation
21
mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1
Mistral AI
4.7K896.4K—
22
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b
Meta AI
4.5K153text generation
23
mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
Mistral AI
4.1K601.5Ktext generation
24
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
4.1K1.2Mtext generation
25
lllyasviel/ControlNet-v1-1
4.1K0—

Leaderboard data is cached from Hugging Face Hub and refreshed every 12 hours. Scores shown are for reference; see the source for full methodology.