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Every new open-source model release and major update — aggregated from across the ecosystem, deduplicated, and refreshed every 12 hours.

532 releases

IBM/Any-to-Any

IBM's Granite Switch Treats Models Like Software

A new Apache-2.0 release reframes enterprise LLMs as components you can swap and update in place.

Oct 29, 2026
Text / LLM
Mistral AI/Text / LLMMajor releaseDatacenter

Mistral Large 4 Arrives as a 1T-Parameter MoE

The new flagship pairs a trillion total parameters with 52B active per token and adds vision alongside multilingual text.

Oct 29, 2026
Text / LLMVision-Language
Mistral Large 4 (1T-A52B)
Baidu/Vision-LanguageRuns anywhere

Baidu releases Unlimited-OCR 2 under MIT license

The multilingual vision-language model targets document text recognition and ships with a permissive license for commercial use.

Oct 26, 2026
Vision-Language
Unlimited-OCR 2
Nanbeige/Text / LLMConsumer GPU

Nanbeige 4.3 Arrives as a 33B Bilingual Model

A dense English–Chinese language model lands under Apache 2.0, aimed at teams that want permissive licensing at mid-size scale.

Oct 24, 2026
Text / LLM
Nanbeige4.3-33B
LiquidAI/Text / LLMRuns anywhere

Liquid AI debuts LFM3-1.7B for edge deployment

A compact 1.7B-parameter multilingual model built to run locally and serve as the base for specialized multimodal variants.

Oct 23, 2026
Text / LLM
LFM3-1.7B
LiquidAI/Any-to-AnyRuns anywhere

Liquid AI's LFM3-Omni-2B brings any-to-any AI to the edge

The 2-billion-parameter model combines vision, audio and speech-to-speech in a package small enough to run on device.

Oct 21, 2026
Any-to-AnyVision-Language
LFM3-Omni-2B
OpenBMB/Vision-LanguageRuns anywhere

OpenBMB's MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 Targets Document Parsing

A compact vision-language model built to read tables, formulas, and complex page layouts arrives on Hugging Face.

Oct 21, 2026
Vision-Language
MiniCPM-OCR 1.0
IBM/Speech → Text

IBM's Granite Speech 5.0 Adds Speaker Attribution

The Apache-2.0 speech model handles transcription, translation, and figuring out who said what.

Oct 21, 2026
Speech → Text
RecursiveSI/Text / LLMConsumer GPU

Recursive releases Flint, an Apache-2.0 chat model

The new conversational LLM ships under a permissive license with community GGUF builds already available for local use.

Oct 21, 2026
Text / LLM
Flint
Tencent/Text → Video

Tencent Releases Hy-Nomas, an Interactive Video World Model

The open-weights model pairs text- and image-to-video generation with action-aware causal attention and explicit camera control.

Oct 21, 2026
Text → VideoImage → Video
Hy-Nomas
KRAFTON/Text / LLMConsumer GPU

KRAFTON releases Raon-1-mini preview under Apache 2.0

The Korean game studio behind PUBG puts out a compact, permissively licensed language model as an early preview.

Oct 21, 2026
Text / LLM
Raon-1-mini (preview)
Qwen · Alibaba/Speech → Text

Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR Adds Speaker-Aware Transcription

Alibaba's new open audio-language model transcribes and diarizes speech across 30 languages under an Apache 2.0 license.

Oct 19, 2026
Speech → Text
XHToken/Text / LLMRuns on a laptop

XHToken Releases Spark-X2.6-4B Bilingual Model

A compact 4-billion-parameter instruction model targets English and Chinese tasks under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Oct 19, 2026
Text / LLM
Spark-X2.6-4B
Briaai/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Bria's Fibo 2.0 Brings Structured Prompts to Open Image AI

The new text-to-image and editing model leans on structured prompts and multi-reference inputs for more controllable generation.

Oct 18, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
Fibo 2.0-dev
MiniMax/Vision-LanguageMulti-GPU server

MiniMax Debuts M3.1 Flash, a Multimodal MoE Model

The new release pairs a mixture-of-experts design with agentic, coding, and video-understanding abilities in a single open model.

Oct 17, 2026
Vision-LanguageCode
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
DeepSeek/Vision-LanguageMajor releaseDatacenter

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Adds Vision and Reasoning

The new MIT-licensed checkpoint folds image understanding and reasoning into DeepSeek's fast, mixture-of-experts Flash line.

Oct 17, 2026
Vision-LanguageText / LLM
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017)
NVIDIA/Text / LLMRuns on a laptop

NVIDIA releases compact Dory 1.0 4B text model

The new Nemotron Labs model packs a 4-billion-parameter language model trained on NVIDIA's Nemotron datasets.

Oct 16, 2026
Text / LLM
Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B
Ornith Ai/Text / LLMWorkstation GPU

Ornith AI releases 122B MoE multimodal model under MIT

The Qwen3.5-based Ornith-1.5 pairs a mixture-of-experts design with vision support and an unusually permissive license.

Oct 16, 2026
Text / LLMVision-Language
Ornith-1.5-122B
IBM/Any-to-Any

IBM's Granite Switch 4.1 Unifies Chat, Logic, Speech

A single endpoint now routes text conversation, decision-making, and speech synthesis across IBM's Apache-licensed Granite line.

Oct 15, 2026
Any-to-AnyText / LLM
Meta AI/Any-to-AnyMajor release

Meta's Muse Spark Open Targets Agentic Coding

The new open-weight model pairs a million-token context window with Meta's bet on long-horizon coding agents.

Oct 15, 2026
CodeText / LLM
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