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Momentum

Trending models

Ranked by 7-day download and engagement velocity — what the community is actually picking up right now.

1

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Vision-Language · 5.7M downloads

2

Google DeepMind

Gemma 3 270M

Text / LLM · 5.6M downloads

3

OpenAI

gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning · 4.9M downloads

4

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3.6-27B

Vision-Language · 4.1M downloads

5

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4-Pro

Text / LLM · 2.8M downloads

6

Zhipu AI

GLM-OCR

Vision-Language · 2.6M downloads

7

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4-Flash

Text / LLM · 2.1M downloads

8

Moonshot AI

Kimi-K2.6

Vision-Language · 2M downloads

9

MiniMax

MiniMax-M2.7

Text / LLM · 1.9M downloads

10

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-OCR

Vision-Language · 1.7M downloads

11

Lightricks

LTX-2.3

Image → Video · 1.5M downloads

12

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct

Any-to-Any · 1.5M downloads

13

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.5

Vision-Language · 1.4M downloads

14

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

Code · 1.4M downloads

15

Zhipu AI

GLM-4.7-Flash

Text / LLM · 1.3M downloads

16

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B CustomVoice

Text → Speech · 773.6K downloads

17

NVIDIA

Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning

Any-to-Any · 753.5K downloads

18

Qwen · Alibaba

Z-Image-Turbo

Text → Image · 699.1K downloads

19

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-TTS 0.6B Base

Text → Speech · 648.1K downloads

20

Microsoft

VibeVoice Realtime 0.5B

Text → Speech · 567.1K downloads

21

OpenBMB

MiniCPM-V-4.6

Vision-Language · 566.1K downloads

22

Google DeepMind

Gemma 4 E4B

Any-to-Any · 551.2K downloads

23

Microsoft

VibeVoice ASR

Speech → Text · 541.5K downloads

24

IBM

Granite Speech 4.1 2B

Speech → Text · 435.9K downloads

25

OpenMOSS

MOSS-TTS

Text → Speech · 423.4K downloads

26

Lightricks

LTX-2

Image → Video · 422K downloads

27

Google DeepMind

DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B Instruct

Text / LLM · 376K downloads

28

Zhipu AI

GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking

Vision-Language · 364.2K downloads

29

Moonshot AI

Kimi-K2-Instruct

Text / LLM · 353.9K downloads

30

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen-Image-Edit-2509

Image Editing · 322.5K downloads

31

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking

Any-to-Any · 227.6K downloads

32

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Text / LLM · 218.5K downloads

33

moondream

Moondream 3 (preview)

Vision-Language · 205.9K downloads

34

Baidu

Qianfan-OCR

Vision-Language · 202.8K downloads

35

Google DeepMind

Gemma 4 12B

Any-to-Any · 182K downloads

36

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen-Image-Edit 2511

Image Editing · 176.8K downloads

37

rednote-hilab

dots.ocr

Vision-Language · 170.2K downloads

38

Datalab

Chandra OCR

Vision-Language · 165.7K downloads

39

Microsoft

VibeVoice-1.5B

Text → Speech · 161.4K downloads

40

Google DeepMind

Gemma 4 26B-A4B Instruct (MoE)

Any-to-Any · 149.5K downloads

41

Qwen · Alibaba

Qwen-Image

Text → Image · 133.6K downloads

42

Boson AI

Higgs Audio v2 (3B)

Text → Speech · 127.5K downloads

43

Google DeepMind

Gemma 4 E4B-it Assistant

Any-to-Any · 126.6K downloads

44

Zhipu AI

GLM-4.5

Reasoning · 113.9K downloads

45

Moonshot AI

Kimi-K2.7-Code

Code · 102.2K downloads

46

NVIDIA

LocateAnything-3B

Vision-Language · 98.7K downloads

47

Kyutai

Kyutai TTS 1.6B (en/fr)

Text → Speech · 95.7K downloads

48

Qwen · Alibaba

Wan2.2-I2V-A14B

Image → Video · 94.5K downloads

49

NVIDIA

Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3

Speech → Text · 94.4K downloads

50

Google DeepMind

FunctionGemma 270M IT

Text / LLM · 93.8K downloads