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341 releases

Meituan/Text / LLM

Meituan Ships a Lighter, Sparser LongCat-Flash

The food-delivery giant's newest open model trims its mixture-of-experts design for more efficient inference under an MIT license.

Jul 31, 2026
Text / LLM
LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse
DeepSeek/Text / LLMMajor release

DeepSeek Refreshes V4-Flash With New 0731 Checkpoint

The MIT-licensed mixture-of-experts model returns in an updated build shipping with FP8 weights for cheaper inference.

Jul 31, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
DeepSeek/Text / LLM

DeepSeek Ships V4-Flash, a 304B MoE Tuned for Agents

The latest checkpoint in DeepSeek's V4 line leans into agentic workflows while keeping the permissive MIT license.

Jul 31, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
LGAI EXAONE/Text / LLM

LG AI Research debuts K-EXAONE 2.0, a 750B MoE model

The new mixture-of-experts model activates 37B parameters per token and targets English, Korean, and Spanish reasoning tasks.

Jul 29, 2026
Text / LLMReasoning
K-EXAONE 2.0 750B-A37B
MiniMax/Text → Video

MiniMax Releases H3 Video Model on Hugging Face

The company's new diffusion model handles text-to-video and image-to-video, with support for joint audio-video generation.

Jul 28, 2026
Text → VideoImage → Video
MiniMax-H3
Skt/Text / LLM

SK Telecom Releases A.X-K2 Multilingual LLM

The Korean telecom carrier's latest open language model targets English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish under a permissive license.

Jul 28, 2026
Text / LLM
A.X-K2
Audio8/Text → Speech

Audio8 debuts a 0.6B multilingual zero-shot TTS preview

The compact text-to-speech model promises voice cloning across languages from a footprint small enough to run without heavy hardware.

Jul 28, 2026
Text → Speech
Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b
Thinkingmachines/Vision-Language

Thinking Machines Debuts Inkling Small, a Compact Multimodal MoE

The Apache-2.0 model brings mixture-of-experts efficiency to image, audio, and text tasks in a smaller footprint.

Jul 27, 2026
Vision-LanguageText / LLM
Inkling Small
LiquidAI/Embeddings

Liquid AI's LFM2.5 encoder targets fast CPU inference

A 230M-parameter bidirectional encoder built for long-context English and German embeddings without a GPU.

Jul 27, 2026
Embeddings
LFM2.5-Encoder-230M
LiquidAI/Embeddings

Liquid AI ships a 350M encoder built for CPUs

The compact LFM2.5 encoder targets fast, long-context text embeddings without a GPU.

Jul 27, 2026
Embeddings
LFM2.5-Encoder-350M
KRAFTON/Any-to-Any

KRAFTON releases A.X-K2 Raon speech MoE model

The game maker's new open model blends text-to-speech and speech recognition in a single 21B mixture-of-experts system with just 3B active parameters.

Jul 27, 2026
Any-to-AnyText → Speech
A.X-K2 Raon Speech 21B-A3B
Microsoft/Vision-Language

Microsoft's Mage-VL Streams Video Natively

A codec-native multimodal foundation model aims to understand live video and vision-language input in real time.

Jul 26, 2026
Vision-LanguageAny-to-Any
Mage-VL
Swiss Ai/Text / LLM

Apertus v1.5 70B arrives with an Apache-2.0 license

Switzerland's open-model effort ships a 70-billion-parameter, multilingual and multimodal system that anyone can use, modify, and deploy.

Jul 24, 2026
Text / LLMVision-Language
Apertus v1.5 70B
Microsoft/Speech → Text

Microsoft's VibeVoice ASR Goes BitNet for CPU Speech

A BitNet-quantized speech recognition model trades GPU dependence for efficient CPU inference in English and Chinese.

Jul 24, 2026
Speech → Text
VibeVoice ASR BitNet
Amd/Reasoning

AMD's Instella-MoE Brings Reasoning to ROCm Hardware

A new open mixture-of-experts model with 16B total parameters and just 3B active is tuned to run on AMD's own accelerator stack.

Jul 23, 2026
ReasoningText / LLM
Instella-MoE 16B A3B Think
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
Upstage/Text / LLM

Upstage's Solar Open2 arrives as a 250B MoE model

The Korean AI firm's latest open release scales to 250 billion parameters with a mixture-of-experts design tuned for English and Korean.

Jul 22, 2026
Text / LLM
Solar Open2 250B
Microsoft/Text → Image

Microsoft's Mage-Flow packs image editing into 4B

A compact model handles both text-to-image generation and instruction-based edits at native resolution, under a permissive MIT license.

Jul 21, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
Mage-Flow
Motif Technologies/Text / LLM

Motif Technologies debuts Motif 3 Beta, an MoE model

The Korean AI lab's preview release is a mixture-of-experts language model built for long-context, multilingual work.

Jul 20, 2026
Text / LLM
Motif 3 Beta
Microsoft/Vision-Language

Microsoft's Fara1.5-27B targets computer-use agents

A 27B-parameter vision-language model built to drive browsers and desktop apps like a human operator.

Jul 17, 2026
Vision-Language
Fara1.5-27B
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