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Agent Development Kit (ADK) is an open-source framework from Google for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents, from single agents to multi-agent systems and graph-based workflows. Google publishes implementations for Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, and Kotlin. The README says ADK is optimized for Gemini but model-agnostic.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Agent2Agent project (Linux Foundation; Agentic AI Foundation project)
Agent2Agent (A2A) is an open protocol for communication between AI agents built on different frameworks and run by different parties. Agents publish Agent Cards describing their capabilities and endpoints, and exchange messages and long-running tasks over JSON-RPC, gRPC, or HTTP+JSON bindings without exposing internal state or tools. The project publishes the specification, SDKs, and samples.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
AGENTS.md a Series of LF Projects, LLC (Agentic AI Foundation project)
AGENTS.md is an open convention for a Markdown file, placed in a code repository, that gives AI coding agents project-specific context and instructions such as build steps, test commands, and code conventions. It is plain Markdown with no required fields; in a monorepo, nested files can apply to subprojects, with the file closest to the edited code taking precedence. OpenAI released it in August 2025 and contributed it to the Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025.
MIT · Released Aug 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Vercel
The AI SDK is an open-source TypeScript toolkit from Vercel for building AI applications and agents. AI SDK Core gives one API for generating text and structured output, calling tools, and building agents across model providers, and AI SDK UI provides hooks for chat and generative interfaces in web frameworks.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
MLCommons (AI Risk & Reliability working group)
AILuminate is MLCommons' family of safety and security benchmarks for generative AI systems, organized around 12 hazard categories. The v1.0 safety benchmark (December 2024) tests general-purpose chat systems with more than 24,000 human-written prompts and grades responses with an ensemble of evaluator models; a jailbreak benchmark measures how safety degrades under attack.
CC-BY-4.0, Apache-2.0 · Released Dec 4, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google DeepMind
AlphaProtein Novo (AP Novo) is a Google DeepMind pipeline for designing new enzymes by scaffolding a structural catalytic motif. Its diffusion model, the AP Novo Generator, generates protein structures and sequences together, conditioned on the motif and ligand context; optional LigandMPNN sequence redesign, AlphaFold 3 structure prediction, and evaluation metrics complete the pipeline. The code and generator weights were published in October 2026 alongside a bioRxiv paper.
Released Oct 2026Reviewed Oct 11, 2026
Google DeepMind · AlphaProtein Novo family
The pretrained AP Novo Generator weights, a single generator.bin.zst file that the alphaprotein-novo package (JAX) loads to co-generate protein structures and amino acid sequences conditioned on a catalytic motif and ligand context. The weights are not in the repository; the README gives a direct download from Google Cloud Storage.
AlphaProtein Novo Generator Model Parameters Terms of Use, Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 2026Reviewed Oct 11, 2026
Mintplex Labs
AnythingLLM is an application for chatting with documents and building AI agents on top of local or hosted language models. It is available as a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux and as a multi-user Docker version, with connectors to many model providers and vector databases.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
ServiceNow (SLAM lab)
Apriel is ServiceNow's series of small open-weight language models, built by its SLAM (ServiceNow Language Models) lab. Apriel-5B was the first release. It was followed by 15B-parameter reasoning models: Apriel-Nemotron-15b-Thinker, the multimodal Apriel-1.5-15b-Thinker, and Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker (December 2025). In April 2026 ServiceNow released Super Apriel, a 15B model derived from Apriel 1.6 whose layers can switch between attention and linear-time mixers at inference time.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
ServiceNow (SLAM lab) · Apriel family
A multimodal reasoning model of about 15B parameters that accepts text and images and writes its reasoning steps before a marked final answer. ServiceNow released it in December 2025 as an update to Apriel-1.5-15b-Thinker, with further continual pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning aimed partly at shorter reasoning.
MIT · Released Dec 9, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
ARC Prize Foundation
ARC-AGI is a series of benchmarks that measure how efficiently a system acquires new skills on unfamiliar tasks, using tasks that rely only on basic "core knowledge" priors and are easy for people. ARC-AGI-1 (introduced in 2019) and ARC-AGI-2 (March 2025) are grid puzzles in which the solver infers a transformation from a few input-output examples; ARC-AGI-3 (March 2026) consists of interactive, turn-based game environments in which agents must explore and infer goals without explicit instructions. Public tasks are released for each version, while semi-private and private evaluation sets used for official scoring are held back.
Apache-2.0, MIT · Released 2019Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft
AutoGen is Microsoft's open-source Python framework for building multi-agent AI applications that act autonomously or alongside people. It comprises an event-driven Core, the higher-level AgentChat API, Extensions for external services such as MCP servers and code execution, and the no-code AutoGen Studio. The project is now in maintenance mode, and Microsoft directs new users to its successor, Microsoft Agent Framework.
MIT, CC-BY-4.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
MIT HAN Lab
AWQ is a post-training method and codebase for low-bit (INT3/INT4) weight-only quantization of large language models, including instruction-tuned and multimodal models. It uses activation statistics to find the most important weight channels and scales them before quantization, without backpropagation. The repository also includes 4-bit CUDA kernels and TinyChat, an inference interface for running quantized models on desktop and edge GPUs.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
Gorilla project, UC Berkeley
The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) is a benchmark and live leaderboard from UC Berkeley's Gorilla project for evaluating how well language models call functions and tools. It checks serial and parallel function calls in several programming languages using abstract syntax tree (AST) evaluation. Later versions add multi-turn and multi-step scenarios and, in V4, agentic tasks such as web search, memory management, and format sensitivity.
Apache-2.0 · Released Mar 23, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
BigCode project (open scientific collaboration), Hugging Face (co-leads the BigCode steering committee), ServiceNow (co-leads the BigCode steering committee)
BigCodeBench is a Python code-generation benchmark from the BigCode project with 1,140 function-level tasks that require calls to 139 libraries across 7 domains. It has two variants, Complete (prompts with structured docstrings) and Instruct (natural-language instructions for chat models), plus a 148-task Hard subset, and it is scored by executing unit tests. The GitHub repository was archived and made read-only on July 20, 2026.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jun 18, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft
bitnet.cpp is Microsoft's official inference framework for 1-bit large language models, such as BitNet b1.58, whose weights are ternary (1.58-bit). It provides optimized kernels for running these models on x86 and ARM CPUs, with a separate GPU inference kernel, and is based on llama.cpp.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
Boltz (Boltz PBC)
Boltz-2 is a biomolecular foundation model that predicts the 3D structures of complexes of proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules together with protein-ligand binding affinity. It was released in June 2025 by the Boltz team at MIT Jameel Clinic with Recursion and is now presented by Boltz PBC as one of its open-source models. It ships as a structure and confidence checkpoint plus a separate affinity checkpoint.
Released Jun 6, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Boltz (Boltz PBC) · Boltz-2 family
The Boltz-2 weights published on June 6, 2025: a structure and confidence checkpoint (boltz2_conf.ckpt) and a separate binding-affinity checkpoint (boltz2_aff.ckpt), released together in one Hugging Face repository and loaded by the boltz package, which runs the latest model by default. The two checkpoints are assessed together because the affinity prediction runs as part of the same Boltz-2 pipeline.
MIT · Released Jun 6, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Chai Discovery
Chai-1 is a multi-modal foundation model from Chai Discovery for predicting molecular structures, covering proteins, small molecules, DNA, RNA, glycosylations, and other modifications. It was first released in September 2024, and its license changed in November 2024 (see the release record). The chai_lab package (latest PyPI release 0.6.1, March 2025) runs it locally.
Released Sep 9, 2024Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Chai Discovery · Chai-1 family
The Chai-1 weights used by the current chai_lab package (version 0.6.1, published March 18, 2025). They are distributed as six exported PyTorch module files (feature embedding, bond projection, token embedder, trunk, diffusion module, and confidence head). The package fetches them from Chai's asset server, and the same six files are in the Hugging Face repository, last updated February 18, 2025. The sources reviewed do not say which earlier package versions used these same files.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Chroma
Chroma is an open-source database for AI applications that stores documents, embeddings, and metadata and supports vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. It can run in memory inside a program, persist to local disk, or run as a server, with client libraries for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Rust.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Amazon (Amazon Web Services)
Chronos is Amazon's family of pretrained time-series forecasting models. It includes the original T5-based Chronos models (March 2024, 8M to 710M parameters), the patch-based Chronos-Bolt models (November 2024), and Chronos-2 (October 2025), a 120M-parameter encoder-only model that adds multivariate and covariate-informed forecasting.
Released Mar 13, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Amazon (Amazon Web Services) · Chronos (time series models) family
Chronos-2 is a 120M-parameter, encoder-only time-series foundation model from Amazon, released on October 20, 2025. Inspired by the T5 encoder, it produces multi-step quantile forecasts and uses group attention to learn in context across related series and covariates, supporting univariate, multivariate, and covariate-informed forecasting with contexts up to 8,192 steps and horizons up to 1,024 steps.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 20, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Cline Bot Inc.
Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that reads a project, edits files, and runs terminal commands, asking for approval at each step unless auto-approve is turned on. Its public repository holds a shared agent SDK, a command-line tool, the VS Code extension, and a desktop app for macOS and Windows; the JetBrains plugin is not open-sourced.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
OpenAI
CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is an OpenAI family of paired image and text encoders trained with a contrastive objective on 400 million image-text pairs, which lets the model classify images zero-shot from natural-language labels. OpenAI released the models in stages from January 2021 to April 2022, from ResNet-50 and ViT-B/32 up to ViT-L/14 and ViT-L/14 at 336-pixel resolution.
Released Jan 2021Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI · CLIP family
CLIP ViT-L/14 pairs a ViT-L/14 Vision Transformer image encoder with a masked self-attention Transformer text encoder, trained contrastively to match images with their captions. OpenAI released it in January 2022; a variant further trained at 336-pixel resolution (ViT-L/14@336px) followed in April 2022.
MIT · Released Jan 2022Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI
Codex CLI is OpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs locally in a terminal, where it can inspect, edit, and run code in a local repository. The README points to separate Codex experiences for code editors, a desktop app, and Codex Web, OpenAI's cloud-based agent.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Deep Cogito
Cogito is Deep Cogito's series of open-weight language models; the v2 and v2.1 models are hybrid reasoning models that can answer directly or reason first. Cogito v1 Preview (April 2025) covered 3B to 70B models on Llama and Qwen bases; Cogito v2 Preview (July 2025) added 70B dense, 109B MoE, 405B dense, and 671B MoE models on Llama and DeepSeek bases; and Cogito v2.1 (November 2025) is a 671B MoE model with 37B active parameters on a DeepSeek base.
Released Apr 8, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Deep Cogito · Cogito family
A 405B-parameter dense hybrid reasoning model that Deep Cogito post-trained from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B, released in July 2025 as one of four Cogito v2 Preview models. It can answer directly or reason first, supports a 128k-token context, and was trained in over 30 languages using Deep Cogito's Iterated Distillation and Amplification approach.
Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement · Released Jul 31, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Deep Cogito · Cogito family
A 671B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 37B active parameters that Deep Cogito post-trained in-house from the DeepSeek-V3 base model. It is a hybrid reasoning model that can answer directly or reason first, supports a 128k-token context, and was trained in over 30 languages; Deep Cogito says process supervision of reasoning chains lets it reach answers with shorter reasoning.
MIT · Released Nov 19, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Common Crawl Foundation
An archive of web crawl data collected by Common Crawl's crawlers since 2008, released as periodic crawls. Each crawl is published as WARC files (raw HTTP responses, requests, and metadata), WAT files (computed metadata as JSON), and WET files (extracted plain text), together with URL indexes.
Common Crawl Terms of Use (limited, non-exclusive license) · Released Sep 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Contextual AI
Contextual AI's reranker models score how relevant retrieved documents are to a query and can follow a natural-language instruction about how to rank them, for example to prefer recent sources. Reranker v2, released in August 2025, comes in 1B, 2B, and 6B sizes with quantized versions, supports more than 100 languages and inputs of up to 32K tokens, and is published as open weights for noncommercial use; managed versions are served through Contextual AI's Rerank API.
Released Aug 27, 2025Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
Contextual AI · Contextual AI Reranker family
The 2B-parameter size of Contextual AI Reranker v2, an instruction-following multilingual reranker released in August 2025. Given a query, an optional natural-language instruction, and a document, it outputs a relevance score; the card lists support for more than 100 languages and inputs of up to 32K tokens.
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 · Released Aug 27, 2025Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
Apple
Core ML Tools (coremltools) is Apple's Python package for converting machine learning models from libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, and LibSVM into the Core ML format, and for reading, writing, and optimizing Core ML models. On macOS it can also check a conversion by running predictions through Core ML.
BSD-3-Clause · Released Jun 2017Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Liquid AI · Liquid AI d1 family
d1-3B is a 3.12-billion-parameter multimodal decision model from Liquid AI, post-trained from its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. It accepts text, JSON, and images with a 32,768-token context and answers named questions in one forward pass without generating output tokens; the card says it is not a chat model.
LFM Open License v1.0 · Released Oct 7, 2026Reviewed Oct 11, 2026
PyTorch Foundation (hosted project), DeepSpeed Technical Steering Committee (project committers)
DeepSpeed is an open-source PyTorch library for distributed training and inference of large models; its features include the ZeRO memory optimizations, 3D parallelism, Ulysses sequence parallelism, and mixture-of-experts support. Microsoft contributed it to LF AI & Data as an incubation project in February 2025, and in May 2025 it became a hosted project of the PyTorch Foundation, which names Microsoft as the contributor.
Apache-2.0, CC-BY-4.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Hugging Face
Diffusers is Hugging Face's open-source PyTorch library for pretrained diffusion models that generate images, video, and audio. It is organized around the DiffusionPipeline API, with interchangeable noise schedulers and model components, and supports adapters such as LoRA. Version 0.40.0 (August 2026) removed JAX/Flax support.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (FAIR)
DINOv3 is Meta's third generation of self-supervised vision backbones, announced in August 2025. The suite includes a 6.7B-parameter ViT-7B/16, distilled Vision Transformers from 21M to 840M parameters, ConvNeXt models, and two backbones trained on satellite imagery, plus task heads for classification, depth, detection, and segmentation. The web-image models were trained on LVD-1689M, a curated set of about 1.7 billion images.
Released Aug 14, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (FAIR) · DINOv3 family
The largest DINOv3 backbone: a 6.7-billion-parameter Vision Transformer with 16-pixel patches, trained by Meta with self-supervised learning (a DINO self-distillation loss and an iBOT masked-image-modeling loss) on LVD-1689M. Training ran in three stages: pretraining, Gram anchoring, and high-resolution adaptation.
DINOv3 License · Released Aug 14, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Dioptra is an open-source software test platform for assessing trustworthy characteristics of AI models, built by NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and announced by NIST in July 2024. It runs as a set of containerized services with a REST API that can be used through a web interface or a Python client to design, run, and track experiments, and its README says it supports the Measure function of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
CC-BY-4.0 · Released Jul 26, 2024Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
LF AI & Data Foundation (hosted project), IBM Research (originating team)
Docling is an open-source Python toolkit that converts documents such as PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images, audio, and other formats into a structured DoclingDocument that can be exported as Markdown, HTML, or JSON for generative AI applications. It includes PDF layout, reading-order, and table-structure analysis, OCR, and optional vision-language model pipelines. The project began at IBM Research in Zurich and has been hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation since 2025.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Dolma is Ai2's family of English pretraining corpora built from web pages, academic publications, code, and encyclopedic text, used to train the OLMo models. The first release (v1, August 2023) was updated through v1.7 (April 2024); Dolma 3, used for Olmo 3, consists of a pool of about 9.3 trillion tokens and curated pretraining, mid-training, and long-context mixes. A Dolma 3.5 pool with additional sources and filtering has since been published.
ODC-By-1.0, Apache-2.0 · Released Aug 18, 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Stanford NLP Group
DSPy is an open-source Python framework for building language-model programs from compositional Python modules instead of hand-written prompts. It includes optimizer algorithms that tune the prompts and weights of those programs. The project started at the Stanford NLP group.
MIT · Released Sep 25, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google DeepMind · Gemma family
EmbeddingGemma 2 is a multimodal embedding model from Google DeepMind that maps text (including code), images, video, and audio, alone or combined in one input, into a single 768-dimensional vector space. The model card gives 740M parameters in total: a 270M-parameter text model plus a 170M vision encoder and a 300M audio encoder that can be loaded separately. All inputs share an 8,192-token context, and outputs can be shortened to 512, 256, or 128 dimensions. Google's release page dates it to October 6, 2026.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 6, 2026Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Google DeepMind · Gemma family
EmbeddingGemma is a multilingual text embedding model in the Gemma family, built from Gemma 3 with T5Gemma initialization. Google's documentation gives its size as 308M parameters; the Hugging Face card calls it a 300M-parameter model. It accepts up to 2,048 input tokens and outputs 768-dimensional vectors, which can be truncated to 512, 256, or 128 dimensions through Matryoshka Representation Learning. Google's release page dates its release to September 4, 2025.
Gemma Terms of Use · Released Sep 4, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Epoch AI
A public database of machine learning models maintained by Epoch AI, recording for each model estimates such as training compute, parameter count, training dataset size, training cost, training duration, and power draw. It is published as an interactive explorer and as CSV files covering notable models, large-scale models (trained with at least 10^23 FLOP), frontier models (top five in training compute when released), and all models.
CC-BY-4.0Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
Biohub (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Inc.), EvolutionaryScale (original developer; now part of Biohub)
Protein language models developed by EvolutionaryScale and, since its team joined Biohub in November 2025, released by Biohub. The line includes ESM3 (June 2024), a generative model that reasons over protein sequence, structure, and function, with a largest version of 98B parameters and a small open model; ESM C (ESM Cambrian, December 2024), representation models at 300M, 600M, and 6B parameters; and, from May 2026, ESMFold2 structure prediction models and sparse autoencoders built on ESM C.
Released Jun 25, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Biohub (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Inc.), EvolutionaryScale (original developer; now part of Biohub) · ESM (EvolutionaryScale and Biohub protein models) family
The openly released small ESM3 model, which EvolutionaryScale describes as a 1.4B-parameter open model. ESM3 is a generative masked language model that takes partial prompts across protein sequence, structure, and function tracks and predicts all three. EvolutionaryScale released it in June 2024; Biohub now distributes it under the MIT license.
MIT · Released Jun 25, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Biohub (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Inc.), EvolutionaryScale (original developer; now part of Biohub) · ESM (EvolutionaryScale and Biohub protein models) family
The largest ESM C (ESM Cambrian) protein language model: 6 billion parameters, 80 transformer layers, and 2.37e23 training FLOPs. EvolutionaryScale introduced ESM C in December 2024; Biohub's May 2026 release of ESMC, ESMFold2, and ESM Atlas included the 6B weights, and ESMFold2 is trained on top of a frozen ESMC 6B.
MIT · Released May 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Essential AI
Essential-Web v1.0 is a web text dataset of about 24 trillion tokens in 23.6 billion documents, built by Essential AI from 101 Common Crawl snapshots. Every document carries metadata from a 12-category taxonomy covering subject (Free Decimal Correspondence, a Dewey Decimal-inspired scheme), page type, reasoning depth, education level, and quality, so subsets can be selected with metadata filters.
ODC-By-1.0 · Released Jun 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
FutureHouse
ether0 is a 24B-parameter chemistry reasoning model from FutureHouse, released in June 2025. It reasons in English and answers with molecular structures written as SMILES. It was fine-tuned and trained with reinforcement learning from Mistral AI's Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501.
Released Jun 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
FutureHouse · ether0 family
The only published ether0 checkpoint: a 24B-parameter language model that reasons in English and outputs molecules as SMILES. It is fine-tuned and reinforcement-learning trained from Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501, followed by safety post-training. It was posted to Hugging Face on June 4, 2025.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jun 4, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Arc Institute
Evo 2 is a family of DNA language models from Arc Institute, developed with NVIDIA and collaborators at institutions including Stanford University, UCSF, UC Berkeley, Goodfire, and the University of Washington. The models use the StripedHyena 2 architecture, work at single-nucleotide resolution with context of up to 1 million base pairs, and were trained on the OpenGenome2 dataset. Checkpoints range from 1B to 40B parameters; a 20B checkpoint derived from the 40B model was added in February 2026.
Released Feb 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Arc Institute · Evo 2 family
A 20-billion-parameter Evo 2 checkpoint with 1 million base-pair context, released in February 2026. Arc created it from Evo 2 40B without additional training by removing layers that logit-lens analysis showed could be dropped with little effect on loss, while keeping the unembedding layer.
Apache-2.0 · Released Feb 28, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Arc Institute · Evo 2 family
The 40-billion-parameter Evo 2 checkpoint, with 50 layers and a context length of up to 1 million base pairs. It was trained autoregressively on OpenGenome2 on 2,048 GPUs, per the Savanna README; a separate evo2_40b_base checkpoint trained at 8,192-token context is also published.
Apache-2.0 · Released Feb 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta
ExecuTorch is PyTorch's open-source stack for running AI models on-device, from phones and laptops to embedded systems and microcontrollers. A model is captured with torch.export, lowered for selected hardware backends into a .pte program, and run through C++, Python, Swift/Objective-C, Kotlin/Java, or JavaScript APIs.
BSD-3-ClauseReviewed Oct 1, 2026
Meta (Fundamental AI Research)
Faiss is a library for similarity search and clustering of dense vectors, written in C++ with Python wrappers. It includes exact and approximate nearest-neighbor indexes, among them compressed (quantization-based) and graph-based (HNSW, NSG) indexes, and GPU implementations of several algorithms. It is developed mainly at Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) group, which released it in March 2017.
MIT · Released Mar 2017Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Hao AI Lab, UC San Diego
FastVideo is a post-training and inference framework for accelerated video generation, maintained by the Hao AI Lab at UC San Diego. Its README lists full and LoRA fine-tuning of open video diffusion transformers, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD2), Video Sparse Attention and sparse distillation, causal distillation through Self-Forcing, and sequence-parallel distributed training and inference.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Apple
FastVLM is a family of vision-language models from Apple, described in a CVPR 2025 paper, built around FastViTHD, a hybrid convolutional-transformer vision encoder that outputs fewer visual tokens to reduce encoding time for high-resolution images. Apple released 0.5B, 1.5B, and 7B variants that pair the encoder with Qwen2 language models, with PyTorch checkpoints and versions exported for Apple silicon.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Apple · FastVLM family
FastVLM 7B is the 7B variant of Apple's FastVLM release. It combines Apple's FastViTHD vision encoder with the Qwen2-7B language model in a LLaVA-style architecture and accepts an image plus a text prompt to generate text.
Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement, Apple software license (ml-fastvlm code)Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Hugging Face (FineData, HuggingFaceFW)
FineWeb is Hugging Face's English web-text pretraining dataset, built by extracting, filtering, and deduplicating pages from Common Crawl snapshots dating back to 2013. The card describes it as more than 18.5 trillion tokens (GPT-2 tokenizer), up from about 15 trillion at first release in April 2024; version 1.4.0 (July 2025) added the Common Crawl snapshots from January to June 2025. Hugging Face also published FineWeb-Edu, an educational subset.
ODC-By-1.0, Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 21, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft (Azure AI) · Microsoft Florence-2 family
Florence-2-large is the larger pretrained Florence-2 vision model, listed at 0.77B parameters on its model card. It takes an image and a task prompt and returns text, boxes, or polygons for tasks such as captioning, detection, grounding, and OCR. Since a December 2024 update, the Hugging Face repository holds a version continued-pretrained for a 4k context length on 0.1B samples, which the card says might not be trained well; the same update changed OCR output to include line separators.
MIT · Released Jun 2024Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent from Google that runs in a terminal and uses Google's Gemini models. It has built-in tools for file operations, shell commands, web fetching, and Google Search grounding, supports MCP servers and extensions, and can run non-interactively in scripts.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Google DeepMind
Gemma is a family of open-weight models credited to Google DeepMind. Google's release page lists general-purpose generations including Gemma 3 (2025) and Gemma 4 (2026), along with specialized variants such as EmbeddingGemma, MedGemma, ShieldGemma, and FunctionGemma.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google DeepMind · Gemma family
Gemma 4 12B Unified is an 11.95-billion-parameter Gemma 4 model with an encoder-free design: image patches and audio waveforms are projected directly into the language model instead of passing through separate encoders. It accepts text, image, audio, and video (as frames) input and generates text, with a 256K-token context window. Google's release page dates its release to June 3, 2026, after the other Gemma 4 sizes.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jun 3, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google DeepMind · Gemma family
Gemma 4 26B A4B is the mixture-of-experts model in the Gemma 4 generation, with 25.2 billion total and 3.8 billion active parameters (8 of 128 experts active, plus one shared expert). It accepts text and image input, can process video as frames, and generates text, with a 256K-token context window. Google's release page dates the initial Gemma 4 release, which included this size, to March 31, 2026.
Apache-2.0 · Released Mar 31, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google DeepMind · Gemma family
Gemma 4 31B is the dense model in the Gemma 4 generation, with 30.7 billion parameters. It accepts text and image input, can process video as frames, and generates text, with a 256K-token context window. It is published as pre-trained and instruction-tuned checkpoints; Google's release page dates the initial Gemma 4 release, which included this size, to March 31, 2026.
Apache-2.0 · Released Mar 31, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
goose, a Series of LF Projects, LLC (Agentic AI Foundation project)
goose is an open-source, general-purpose AI agent that runs on the user's machine, with a desktop app, a command-line interface, and an API, and is written in Rust. It works with multiple hosted and local model providers and connects to extensions through the Model Context Protocol. Block created goose and contributed it to the Agentic AI Foundation.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
EleutherAI
GPT-NeoX is EleutherAI's library for training large autoregressive language models on GPUs. It builds on NVIDIA's Megatron-LM and on DeepSpeed, and supports distributed training with ZeRO and 3D parallelism, several positional-embedding and attention options, mixture of experts, and predefined configurations for architectures such as Pythia and Llama. EleutherAI used it to train GPT-NeoX-20B and the Pythia suite.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI
gpt-oss is OpenAI's series of open-weight, text-only reasoning models, released in August 2025 in two sizes: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. Both are mixture-of-experts transformers trained for OpenAI's harmony response format. OpenAI later published gpt-oss-safeguard models fine-tuned from them for safety classification.
Released Aug 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI · gpt-oss family
gpt-oss-120b is the larger gpt-oss model: a 36-layer mixture-of-experts transformer with 116.8B total and about 5.1B active parameters per token, using 128 experts with the top 4 selected per token. It is text-only, supports context up to 131,072 tokens, and ships with its MoE weights quantized to MXFP4.
Apache-2.0 · Released Aug 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI · gpt-oss family
gpt-oss-20b is the smaller gpt-oss model: a 24-layer mixture-of-experts transformer with 20.9B total and about 3.6B active parameters per token, using 32 experts with the top 4 selected per token. It is text-only, supports context up to 131,072 tokens, and ships with its MoE weights quantized to MXFP4.
Apache-2.0 · Released Aug 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI
gpt-oss-safeguard is a pair of open-weight, text-only reasoning models from OpenAI, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, post-trained from the corresponding gpt-oss models to classify content against a policy that the user supplies. OpenAI's technical report is dated October 29, 2025. OpenAI lists the models as a model partner of the Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) Model Community, a group of safety practitioners working with open models.
Released Oct 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
OpenAI · gpt-oss-safeguard family
gpt-oss-safeguard-120b is the larger gpt-oss-safeguard model, a text-only safety reasoning model fine-tuned from gpt-oss-120b. The model card gives 117B total parameters with 5.1B active. Its configuration lists 36 layers, 128 experts with 4 used per token, and a maximum of 131,072 position embeddings. The mixture-of-experts weights are quantized to MXFP4; attention, router, embedding, and output layers are not.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
OpenAI · gpt-oss-safeguard family
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is the smaller gpt-oss-safeguard model, a text-only safety reasoning model fine-tuned from gpt-oss-20b. The model card gives 21B total parameters with 3.6B active. Its configuration lists 24 layers, 32 experts with 4 used per token, and a maximum of 131,072 position embeddings. The mixture-of-experts weights are quantized to MXFP4; attention, router, embedding, and output layers are not.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Nomic AI
GPT4All is Nomic's open-source desktop application for running large language models locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It includes LocalDocs for chatting with local files, a Python SDK, and an API server, and its Python client wraps llama.cpp.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
IBM (Granite Team) · IBM Granite family
Granite 4.2 30B is a 30-billion-parameter dense decoder-only language model from IBM with built-in reasoning, selectable thinking, non-thinking, and low-effort modes, and tool calling. The model card states native 128K-token context support with long-context extension to 512K, while the configuration file shipped with the weights sets a maximum of 131,072 positions. Per the model card, the 30B model received a second supervised fine-tuning phase with up-sampled agentic data.
Apache-2.0, CDLA-Permissive-2.0 · Released Aug 25, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
IBM (Granite Team) · IBM Granite family
Granite 4.2 3B is a 3-billion-parameter dense decoder-only language model from IBM with built- in reasoning, selectable thinking, non-thinking, and low-effort modes, and tool calling. The model card states native 128K-token context support with long-context extension to 512K, while the configuration file shipped with the weights sets a maximum of 131,072 positions.
Apache-2.0, CDLA-Permissive-2.0 · Released Aug 25, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
IBM (Granite Team) · IBM Granite family
Granite 4.2 8B is an 8-billion-parameter dense decoder-only language model from IBM with built-in reasoning, selectable thinking, non-thinking, and low-effort modes, and tool calling. The model card states native 128K-token context support with long-context extension to 512K, while the configuration file shipped with the weights sets a maximum of 131,072 positions.
Apache-2.0, CDLA-Permissive-2.0 · Released Aug 25, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
IBM (Granite Team) · IBM Granite family
Granite Switch 4.1 8B is a composed checkpoint from IBM that pairs the Granite 4.1 8B language model with two activated-LoRA adapters (a general decision adapter and a Guardian safety-risk detector) and a speech-to-text cascade, so chat, decision, safety-check, and transcription requests can be served from one endpoint. Adapters are switched on through control tokens in the chat template.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 14, 2026Reviewed Oct 18, 2026
xAI (SpaceXSI)
Grok is xAI's family of large language models, first launched in November 2023 and offered mainly through the Grok assistant and the xAI API. xAI has published weights for two earlier models: Grok-1 in March 2024 and Grok 2 in August 2025. SpaceX's prospectus describes current Grok models as proprietary.
Released Nov 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
xAI (SpaceXSI) · Grok family
Grok 2 is a post-trained language model that xAI trained and used in 2024; its weights, about 500 GB in 42 files, were published on Hugging Face in August 2025. Press coverage at the time reported the release as Grok 2.5.
xAI Community License Agreement · Released Aug 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
xAI (SpaceXSI) · Grok family
Grok-1 is a 314-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts language model (8 experts, 2 used per token) that xAI trained from scratch. The published checkpoint is the raw base model from pretraining that ended in October 2023 and is not fine-tuned for dialogue or other applications.
Apache-2.0 · Released Mar 17, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Harvey
LAB is an open-source benchmark from Harvey for evaluating AI agents on legal work. It consists of a task set, in which each task gives an agent instructions and a matter file of documents and defines a rubric of pass/fail criteria, and an execution harness for running agents against the tasks and grading their work product. The tasks span transactional, advisory, regulatory, and litigation work across many legal practice areas.
MIT · Released May 6, 2026Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM)
HELM is an open-source Python framework from Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models for evaluating foundation models, including language and multimodal models. It provides benchmarks in a standardized format, one interface to models from several providers, metrics beyond accuracy such as efficiency, bias, and toxicity, and a web UI and leaderboards for inspecting results. HELM entered maintenance mode on June 1, 2026.
Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 30, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Nous Research
Hermes is Nous Research's series of post-trained language models, each built on a base model released by another developer. Releases listed by Nous include Nous-Hermes Llama 2 13B (July 2023), Hermes 2 models on Mistral, Mixtral, Yi, and Llama 3 bases (2023 to 2024), Hermes 3 on Llama 3.1 (August 2024), Hermes 4 at 405B, 70B, and 14B (August 2025), and Hermes 4.3 36B (December 2025). Hermes 4 and 4.3 are hybrid reasoning models that can answer directly or reason in think tags first.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Nous Research · Hermes family
A 70B-parameter hybrid reasoning model that Nous Research post-trained from Meta's Llama 3.1 70B base model, released in August 2025 with Hermes 4 405B and 14B. Nous trained it on a newly synthesized dataset of about 5 million reasoning and non-reasoning samples, and it can either answer directly or reason inside think tags first.
Meta Llama 3 Community License (card license field "llama3") · Released Aug 26, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Nous Research · Hermes family
A 36B-parameter hybrid reasoning model that Nous Research post-trained from ByteDance Seed's Seed-OSS-36B-Base. It was Nous's first Hermes model trained in a decentralized way over the internet on the Psyche network, with context extended up to 512K tokens. Nous also released a centrally trained version of the same model as a research comparison.
Apache-2.0 · Released Dec 3, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Nous Research
Hermes Agent is an agent runtime from Nous Research with command-line and messaging interfaces, persistent memory, reusable skills, and scheduled tasks. It can connect to different model providers and local or remote execution backends. It is separate from the Hermes family of language models.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
OpenAI
HumanEval is a code-generation benchmark released by OpenAI with the Codex paper in July 2021. It contains 164 hand-written Python programming problems, each with a function signature, docstring, reference solution, and unit tests, and measures functional correctness of generated code with the pass@k metric. The GitHub repository provides the problem file and the evaluation harness.
MIT · Released Jul 2021Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Center for AI Safety, Scale AI
A multimodal benchmark of 2,500 expert-written, closed-ended academic questions across more than a hundred subjects, including mathematics, the humanities, and the natural sciences, in multiple-choice and short-answer formats suited to automated grading. It was organized by teams at the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI with questions from nearly 1,000 subject-matter contributors, and was published in Nature in January 2026.
MIT · Released Jan 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
HydraGNN is a PyTorch implementation of multi-headed graph neural networks from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with separate output heads for graph-level and node-level properties. Its README lists distributed training with DDP, FSDP, and DeepSpeed; equivariant layers such as EGNN, PaiNN, MACE, and DimeNet; heterogeneous graph learning; global attention through GPS; and training of machine-learned interatomic potentials with energy-conserving forces.
BSD-3-ClauseReviewed Oct 1, 2026
IBM
Granite is IBM's family of models. IBM lists language, speech, vision, guardian (risk detection), embedding, and time-series lines. The most recent language-model generation on IBM's Granite page is Granite 4.2: dense reasoning models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, released in August 2026 and post-trained from Granite 4.1 base models.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's family of open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts models that accept text, image, and audio input and produce text. The first release, Inkling (975B total and 41B active parameters), was published on July 15, 2026, followed by Inkling-Small (276B total and 12B active) on July 30, 2026.
Released Jul 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab · Inkling family
Inkling is a 66-layer decoder-only mixture-of-experts transformer with 975B total and 41B active parameters, routing each token to 6 of 256 experts plus 2 shared experts. It accepts text, image, and audio input, outputs text, and supports a context window of up to 1M tokens. Thinking Machines Lab says it trained the model from scratch on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jul 15, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab · Inkling family
Inkling-Small is a 42-layer decoder-only mixture-of-experts transformer with 276B total and 12B active parameters, routing each token to 6 of 256 experts plus 2 shared experts. Like Inkling, it accepts text, image, and audio input, outputs text, and supports a context window of up to 1M tokens.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jul 30, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research)
Inspect-Hawk is METR's open-source platform for running Inspect AI evaluations on cloud infrastructure. Users define tasks, agents, and models in a YAML file; Hawk runs each evaluation in an isolated Kubernetes pod, manages model API credentials through a proxy, streams logs, stores results in a PostgreSQL warehouse, and serves a web interface for browsing them. It is built on Inspect AI, the evaluation framework created by the UK AI Security Institute.
MITReviewed Oct 2, 2026
Prime Intellect
INTELLECT is Prime Intellect's series of open-weight models. INTELLECT-1 is a 10B model trained from scratch on 1 trillion tokens with compute from distributed community contributors; INTELLECT-2 is a 32B model produced by a distributed reinforcement-learning run on QwQ-32B; INTELLECT-3 (November 2025) is a 106B mixture-of-experts model (12B active) post-trained from GLM-4.5-Air-Base with supervised fine-tuning and large-scale RL; and INTELLECT-3.1 continues INTELLECT-3 with further RL.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Prime Intellect · INTELLECT family
A 106B-parameter mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 12B active parameters, post-trained by Prime Intellect from Z.ai's GLM-4.5-Air-Base. Training used two supervised fine-tuning stages (general reasoning, then agentic) followed by large-scale reinforcement learning on math, code, science, logic, deep-research, and software-engineering environments, run with prime-rl on a 512-GPU H200 cluster over about two months.
MIT, Apache-2.0 · Released Nov 26, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Prime Intellect · INTELLECT family
A 106B-parameter mixture-of-experts reasoning model (12B active) that continues the training of INTELLECT-3 with additional reinforcement learning on math, coding, software-engineering, and agentic tasks, using prime-rl and environments built with the verifiers library.
MIT, Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
JAX core team (Google open-source project)
JAX is a Python library for array computation and program transformation, including automatic differentiation, just-in-time compilation, and vectorization of NumPy-style code. It compiles programs with the XLA compiler to run on CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, and other accelerators.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University
KempnerForge is a PyTorch-native framework from Harvard's Kempner Institute for fault-tolerant distributed training of foundation models on AI clusters. It trains decoder-only Transformers and mixture-of-experts models with FSDP2, tensor, expert, and pipeline parallelism and FP8 mixed precision, and it includes asynchronous checkpointing with auto-resume, SLURM preemption handling, activation-extraction hooks for interpretability, and vision-language model training.
MIT · Released Apr 20, 2026Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Keras team at Google
Keras is an open-source deep learning API. Keras 3 is multi-backend: models can run on JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch, and an OpenVINO backend supports inference only. The keras.io site also documents KerasHub, which provides Keras 3 implementations of model architectures paired with pretrained checkpoints.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Poolside
Laguna is Poolside's family of mixture-of-experts language models for agentic coding. Poolside's release notes and announcements list Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1 (April 2026), Laguna XS 2.1 (announced 2 July 2026), and Laguna S 2.1 (21 July 2026), with sizes from 33B total (3B active) to 225B total (23B active) parameters.
Released Apr 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Poolside · Laguna family
Laguna S 2.1 is a mixture-of-experts model with 118B total and about 8B active parameters per token, built for agentic coding. It has 48 layers mixing global and sliding-window attention, 256 routed experts plus one shared expert, and a 1,048,576-token context window, with reasoning that can be switched on or off per request.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 · Released Jul 21, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Poolside · Laguna family
Laguna XS 2.1 is a mixture-of-experts model with 33B total and 3B active parameters per token, built for agentic coding on a local machine. Poolside describes it as an upgraded version of Laguna XS.2 with the same architecture. It supports interleaved reasoning between tool calls and has a 262,144-token context window.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 · Released Jul 2, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
LangChain Inc.
LangChain is an open-source Python framework for building agents and LLM applications. It gives a standard interface across model providers and many third-party integrations. Its agent API is built on LangGraph, and a JavaScript/TypeScript version, LangChain.js, lives in a separate repository.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
LangChain Inc.
LangGraph is an open-source, low-level orchestration framework and runtime for long-running, stateful agents. It is built by LangChain Inc. but can be used without the LangChain library, and a JavaScript/TypeScript version, LangGraph.js, lives in a separate repository. The README credits Pregel and Apache Beam as inspirations.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LBANN project)
LBANN is an open-source deep learning training framework from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, built for high-performance computing systems. Its documentation describes combining model parallelism through domain decomposition with data parallelism and ensemble training, and support for supervised, self-supervised, unsupervised, and adversarial (GAN) training. The repository's main branch now holds LBANNv2, a pre-alpha Python package described as LBANN's core integration with PyTorch; the earlier toolkit remains on the v1.x branches.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Lemonade project (sponsored and backed by AMD, with community maintainers)
Lemonade is a local AI server that runs language, speech, and image-generation models on a PC's CPU, GPU, or NPU and exposes them through OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Ollama-compatible APIs. It is also offered as an embeddable binary for applications, and it supports several inference engines, including llama.cpp and engines for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Liquid AI
LFM is Liquid AI's series of hybrid language and multimodal models for on-device use, built from gated short-convolution blocks and a small number of grouped-query attention blocks. LFM2 (from July 2025) introduced open-weight dense models from 350M parameters upward and later an 8.3B mixture-of-experts model. LFM2.5 (from January 2026) extended pretraining and scaled up reinforcement-learning post-training; 2026 releases include LFM2.5-8B-A1B (May), LFM2.5-2.6B (August), and LFM2.5-VL-3B (August), alongside vision, audio, and encoder variants.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Liquid AI · LFM (Liquid Foundation Models) family
A 2.69B-parameter text-only hybrid model with 30 layers (22 double-gated short-convolution blocks and 8 grouped-query attention blocks), a 131,072-token context window, and support for 16 languages. Liquid AI pretrained it on about 34 trillion tokens and post-trained it for agentic use; it always reasons before answering.
LFM Open License v1.0 · Released Aug 4, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Liquid AI · LFM (Liquid Foundation Models) family
A text-only reasoning mixture-of-experts model with 24.0B total and 2.45B active parameters, built from 30 double-gated short-convolution blocks and 10 grouped-query attention blocks, with 64 experts per MoE block and top-4 routing. It keeps the LFM2-24B-A2B architecture but extends the context window to 131,072 tokens and doubles the vocabulary to 128,000 tokens; unlike its predecessor, it always writes a chain of thought before answering. Liquid AI describes it as the final model in the LFM2.5 family.
LFM Open License v1.0 · Released Oct 13, 2026Reviewed Oct 18, 2026
Liquid AI · LFM (Liquid Foundation Models) family
A text-only mixture-of-experts model with 8.3B total and 1.5B active parameters, built from 18 double-gated convolution blocks and 6 grouped-query attention blocks. Liquid AI pretrained it on 38 trillion tokens, extended its context to 128,000 tokens, and tuned it for reasoning; it writes a chain of thought before its final answer. It succeeds LFM2-8B-A1B.
LFM Open License v1.0 · Released May 28, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Liger Kernel is an open-source collection of Triton GPU kernels for training large language models, developed at LinkedIn. It provides Hugging Face-compatible implementations of layers such as RMSNorm, RoPE, SwiGLU, and cross-entropy (including a fused linear cross-entropy), plus memory-efficient losses for post-training methods such as DPO, ORPO, and KTO.
BSD-2-Clause · Released Aug 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Liquid AI
d1 is Liquid AI's family of decision models. Instead of generating text, a d1 model takes a state (text, JSON, images, or for some checkpoints audio) and a set of named questions and returns typed answers (yes/no, a choice, or a score) in a single forward pass. Liquid AI released the first open-weight d1 models, d1-3B and the experimental d1-omni-600M, on October 7, 2026.
Released Oct 7, 2026Reviewed Oct 11, 2026
Google (Google AI Edge)
LiteRT is Google's on-device runtime for machine learning and generative AI models on Android, iOS, desktop, web, and IoT platforms, with CPU, GPU, and NPU acceleration. LiteRT is the new name for TensorFlow Lite; it runs models converted from PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Meta
Llama is Meta's family of large language models. Meta's Llama models repository lists generations from Llama 2 (July 2023) through Llama 4 (April 2025), each with its own license file and acceptable use policy. Llama 4 is distributed under the custom Llama 4 Community License Agreement rather than a standard open-source license.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta · Llama family
Llama 3.1 8B is the smallest model in Meta's Llama 3.1 collection, released on July 23, 2024 in pretrained and instruction-tuned versions. It is a text-only, auto-regressive transformer with grouped-query attention and a 128K context length. The model card lists eight supported languages and says the collection was pretrained on about 15 trillion tokens with a December 2023 cutoff.
Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement · Released Jul 23, 2024Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) · Tülu family
An 8B instruction-following model from Ai2's Tülu 3 line, post-trained from Meta's Llama 3.1 8B base model through supervised fine-tuning and DPO, then reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. Version 3.1 differs from the original Tülu 3 8B only in the final RL stage, which switched from PPO to GRPO (without a reward model) with further hyperparameter tuning.
Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement, Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta · Llama family
Llama 4 Maverick is a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta with 17 billion active and 400 billion total parameters across 128 experts. It accepts multilingual text and images and produces text and code; the model card lists a 1M-token context length and an August 2024 knowledge cutoff. Pretrained and instruction-tuned versions were released.
Llama 4 Community License Agreement · Released Apr 5, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta · Llama family
Llama 4 Scout is a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta with 17 billion active and 109 billion total parameters across 16 experts. It accepts multilingual text and images and produces text and code; the model card lists a 10M-token context length and an August 2024 knowledge cutoff. Pretrained and instruction-tuned versions were released.
Llama 4 Community License Agreement · Released Apr 5, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta · Llama family
Llama Guard 4 is a 12-billion-parameter safety classifier from Meta for text and images. Given a prompt sent to a language model, or a model's response, it generates text saying whether the content is safe or unsafe and, if unsafe, which categories it violates: 13 categories based on the MLCommons hazards taxonomy plus a text-only category for code interpreter abuse. It is a dense model pruned from the pre-trained Llama 4 Scout and fine-tuned for classification, and it accepts multiple images in one prompt. Meta released it on April 29, 2025, as one of its Llama protection tools.
Llama 4 Community License Agreement · Released Apr 29, 2025Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
ggml team at Hugging Face (ggml.ai, acquired by Hugging Face in 2026), with the ggml-org community
llama.cpp is a C/C++ library and set of tools for running LLM and vision-language model inference locally or in the cloud, built on the ggml tensor library. It supports integer quantization and many hardware backends. It includes a command-line interface and an OpenAI-compatible server.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Mozilla.ai
llamafile packages an open model's weights and a llama.cpp-based inference runtime into a single executable that runs locally on several operating systems without installation. It combines llama.cpp with Cosmopolitan Libc and includes whisperfile, a single-file speech-to-text tool built on whisper.cpp.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
LlamaIndex, Inc.
LlamaIndex is an open-source Python framework for building LLM agents, event-driven workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over private data. It is split into a core package and hundreds of integration packages for models, embeddings, and vector stores; the company also offers a TypeScript SDK. The README says the company now focuses mainly on its LlamaParse platform but keeps the framework available as an open toolkit.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Linux Foundation), Sandbox project, Red Hat (launched the project; MAINTAINERS.md lists Red Hat staff in project leadership and as community managers), Google (MAINTAINERS.md lists Google staff in project leadership), IBM (IBM Research is a founding contributor; MAINTAINERS.md lists IBM staff in project leadership and as a community manager)
llm-d is an open-source distributed inference serving stack for running large language models on Kubernetes. It sits above model servers such as vLLM and adds request routing that is aware of prefix caches and load, KV-cache offloading, prefill/decode disaggregation, expert parallelism for large models, autoscaling, and batch processing. Red Hat launched it in May 2025, and it became a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox project in March 2026.
Apache-2.0 · Released May 20, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
U Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
LLMRouter is an open-source Python library for routing each query to a suitable large language model, balancing response quality against inference cost. It implements more than 16 routing methods across single-round, multi-round, multimodal, agentic, and personalized routers, and adds a command-line interface, a Gradio chat interface, and a pipeline for generating routing training data. The accompanying paper introduces xRouteBench, a routing benchmark.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
EleutherAI
An open-source framework from EleutherAI for evaluating language models on many benchmark tasks through one interface. It supports local models (for example through Hugging Face Transformers or vLLM) and hosted model APIs, and its README lists more than 60 standard academic benchmarks with hundreds of subtasks and variants.
MIT · Released Aug 31, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Open Athena (Open Athena AI Foundation Inc.), Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM)
Marin is an open lab and software platform for developing foundation models, covering data curation, filtering, tokenization, pretraining, post-training, and evaluation, with experiments, code, and training logs published as the work happens. It began at Stanford in 2024, originating in Stanford CRFM and HAI, and is now primarily developed by the nonprofit Open Athena with Stanford CRFM as a core collaborator. Models trained with it include Marin 8B and Marin 32B.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Microsoft
MarkItDown is a Microsoft Python library and command-line tool that converts files such as PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, images, audio, EPUB, and ZIP archives into Markdown. It aims to keep document structure (headings, lists, tables, links) for use by language models and text analysis pipelines rather than for high-fidelity human-readable conversion.
MIT · Released Nov 2024Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Modular
MAX is Modular's framework for serving and building AI models. It serves models through an OpenAI-compatible API, offers PyTorch-like Python APIs for writing model pipelines, and includes a GPU kernel library for NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple hardware. Its Python API, model pipelines, and GPU kernels are open source; the MAX package as a whole is distributed under the Modular Community License.
Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception, Modular Community License (MAX package usage and distribution)Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google (AI Hypercomputer GitHub organization)
MaxText is an open-source LLM library and reference implementation written in Python and JAX for training on Google Cloud TPUs and GPUs. It provides implementations of Gemma, Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and other open model architectures, with support for pre-training and for post-training methods such as supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google (Health AI Developer Foundations)
MedGemma is a collection of Gemma 3 variants trained by Google on medical text and images, published as part of Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF). MedGemma 1 was released in May 2025 (4B multimodal and 27B text-only) with a 27B multimodal variant in July 2025, and MedGemma 1.5 4B followed in January 2026.
Released May 20, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google (Health AI Developer Foundations) · MedGemma family
MedGemma 1.5 4B is a multimodal, instruction-tuned update to MedGemma 1 4B, released by Google on January 13, 2026. It accepts text and images and produces text, adding support for CT and MRI volumes, whole-slide histopathology, longitudinal chest X-rays, anatomical localization, lab-report extraction, and text-based EHR interpretation.
Health AI Developer Foundations Terms of Use, Apache-2.0 · Released Jan 13, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google (Health AI Developer Foundations) · MedGemma family
MedGemma 27B multimodal is the 27B multimodal variant of MedGemma 1, released by Google on July 9, 2025. It accepts text and images and produces text, and unlike the 27B text-only variant it was also trained on medical images and FHIR-based electronic health record data. It is published only as an instruction-tuned model.
Health AI Developer Foundations Terms of Use, Apache-2.0 · Released Jul 9, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA
NVIDIA's Megatron-LM repository contains two components: Megatron Core, a library of GPU-optimized building blocks for training transformer models at scale (tensor, pipeline, data, expert, and context parallelism; FP16, BF16, FP8, and FP4 mixed precision), and Megatron-LM, a reference training setup with pre-configured scripts built on Megatron Core. The README says Megatron Core development moved to GitHub in December 2025, with all development and CI now happening in the open.
BSD-3-ClauseReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft (Azure AI)
Florence-2 is a family of vision foundation models from Microsoft's Azure AI group that handle captioning, object detection, visual grounding, segmentation, and OCR through text prompts, using a sequence-to-sequence design with a DaViT vision encoder. The models were trained on FLD-5B, a set of 5.4 billion visual annotations on 126 million images that the team built with an iterative automated annotation process. Microsoft published four checkpoints on Hugging Face in June 2024: Florence-2-base (0.23B parameters) and Florence-2-large (0.77B), plus versions of each fine-tuned on a collection of downstream tasks (base-ft and large-ft).
Released Jun 2024Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
MLC team (MLC open community), CMU Catalyst (lists MLC LLM among its own research projects)
MLC LLM is an open-source machine learning compiler and deployment engine for large language models. Compiled models run on MLCEngine, which offers an OpenAI-compatible API through a REST server and Python, JavaScript, iOS, and Android interfaces, with GPU backends including CUDA, ROCm, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, and OpenCL.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
MLflow Project, a Series of LF Projects, LLC (Linux Foundation), Databricks (creator)
MLflow is an open-source platform for managing machine learning and generative AI development. For LLM applications and agents it provides tracing and observability (with OpenTelemetry integration), evaluation, prompt management and optimization, and an AI Gateway; for model training it provides experiment tracking, model evaluation, a model registry, and deployment tools. Databricks created MLflow, which joined the Linux Foundation in June 2020.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
MLCommons
MLPerf is MLCommons' family of system performance benchmarks. Its suites cover training (time to train a model to a target quality), inference in datacenter, edge, mobile, and tiny settings, and also client PCs, storage, automotive, HPC training, and inference endpoints. Results are submitted in rounds, reviewed by the submitting organizations, and published together by MLCommons.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Apple (machine learning research)
MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon from Apple machine learning research. It has a NumPy-like Python API plus C++, C, and Swift APIs, composable function transformations, lazy computation, and a unified memory model that shares arrays between the CPU and GPU.
MIT · Released 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Genmo
Mochi is Genmo's line of text-to-video diffusion models. Its only open-weight release so far is Mochi 1 preview (October 2024), a 10B-parameter model published with its video VAE under Apache 2.0. Genmo's hosted playground refers to a Mochi 1.1 model, for which this catalog found no open-weight release.
Released Oct 22, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Genmo · Mochi family
A 10B-parameter text-to-video diffusion model built on Genmo's Asymmetric Diffusion Transformer (AsymmDiT) and released as a research preview in October 2024. It is paired with AsymmVAE, a 362M-parameter video autoencoder released alongside it, and encodes prompts with a single T5-XXL model. The initial release generates 480p video.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 22, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Model Context Protocol a Series of LF Projects, LLC (Agentic AI Foundation project)
The Model Context Protocol is an open protocol for connecting AI applications to external data sources, tools, and workflows through MCP servers and clients. The project publishes the specification, a TypeScript schema with a generated JSON Schema, documentation, and official SDKs in ten programming languages. Anthropic introduced it in November 2024 and donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025.
Apache-2.0, MIT, CC-BY-4.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Modular
Mojo is a programming language developed by Modular that pairs Python-style syntax with systems programming and metaprogramming features, for writing code that runs on CPUs and GPUs. Its compiler, standard library, and tooling are published in the Mojo directory of Modular's modular repository; Mojo 1.0 was released in August 2026.
Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception · Released 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Molmo is Ai2's family of open vision-language models. The first release (September 2024) comprised MolmoE-1B, Molmo-7B-O, Molmo-7B-D, and Molmo-72B, trained with Ai2's PixMo data. Molmo 2 (December 2025) added video and multi-image understanding and grounding in 4B and 8B models built on Qwen3 and a 7B model (Molmo2-O-7B) built on Ai2's own Olmo 3. Ai2 has since built specialized variants on the line, including MolmoAct 2 for robot manipulation (May 2026).
Released Sep 25, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) · Molmo family
Molmo2-O-7B is the Molmo 2 vision-language model built on Ai2's Olmo 3 7B Instruct language model with a SigLIP 2 vision encoder, released in December 2025. It accepts images, multiple images, and video with text, and can answer questions, caption, and point to or track objects. Ai2 describes it as the variant whose full model flow is open, since its language model is also Ai2's.
Apache-2.0 · Released Dec 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs)
Muse is a model family from Meta Superintelligence Labs, introduced with Muse Spark in April 2026. Muse Spark versions are offered through Meta AI and the Meta Model API without public weights. Muse Glimmer, released in August 2026, is an open-weight model distilled from Muse Spark. Meta's developer site also lists Muse Image and Muse Voice Transcribe.
Released Apr 8, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft Research
Muse is Microsoft Research's name for its World and Human Action Model (WHAM), a generative model of gameplay trained on human play data from the Xbox game Bleeding Edge. It can generate game visuals, controller actions, or both. It was developed by Microsoft Research's Game Intelligence and Teachable AI Experiences teams with Ninja Theory.
Released Feb 19, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs) · Muse (Meta) family
Muse Glimmer is an open-weight model from Meta Superintelligence Labs with about 29.6 billion parameters, including a roughly 1.8-billion-parameter perception encoder. It is a dense transformer that takes text and images as input and produces text, and was distilled from Muse Spark for agentic tasks on consumer hardware. The model card lists a context length of 131,072+ tokens and a January 4, 2026 knowledge cutoff.
Apache-2.0 · Released Aug 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs) · Muse (Meta) family
Muse Spark Open is the open-weight version of Meta's Muse Spark, released on October 15, 2026. The model card describes a mixture-of-experts transformer with 816B total and 42B active parameters (256 experts, 8 active per token, 62 layers) plus a 1.8B-parameter perception encoder. It accepts text, image, video, and audio input, produces text, and supports a 1M-token context at inference. Meta says this version received additional safety post-training for use as a standalone model.
Muse Model License (version Muse Spark Open) · Released Oct 15, 2026Reviewed Oct 18, 2026
NVIDIA
Nemotron-CC is NVIDIA's English pretraining dataset built from Common Crawl. The original release (December 2024) has 6.3T tokens, 4.4T globally deduplicated original tokens and 1.9T synthetic tokens, drawn from 99 Common Crawl snapshots (CC-MAIN-2013-20 through CC-MAIN-2024-30) and split into five quality buckets. Nemotron-CC-v2 (August 2025) and Nemotron-CC-v2.1 (December 2025), published on Hugging Face, add newer snapshots, further synthetic rephrasings, translated question-answer data, and other subsets.
Common Crawl Terms of Use (original Nemotron-CC release), NVIDIA Data Agreement for Model Training (Nemotron-CC-v2 and v2.1) · Released Dec 3, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
NeuroMANCER (Neural Modules with Adaptive Nonlinear Constraints and Efficient Regularizations) is an open-source differentiable programming library written in PyTorch and published by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It is built for learning to solve parametric constrained optimization problems, physics-informed system identification, and model-based optimal control, and it provides a symbolic interface for adding physics equations, domain knowledge, and constraints to learned models.
BSD-style license (Battelle Memorial Institute)Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Nomic AI
Nomic Embed is Nomic's series of open embedding models. It began with nomic-embed-text-v1 (February 2024), a text embedder with an 8,192-token context, and continued with v1.5 and its resizable Matryoshka embeddings (February 2024), vision models aligned to the v1.5 space (June 2024), the multilingual mixture-of-experts nomic-embed-text-v2-moe (February 2025), Nomic Embed Code (March 2025), and Nomic Embed Multimodal (April 2025).
Released Feb 1, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Nomic AI · Nomic Embed family
A text embedding model that updates nomic-embed-text-v1 with Matryoshka representation learning, so its 768-dimension embeddings can be shortened to as few as 64 dimensions, or binarized, with a small loss in quality. Released in February 2024, it follows v1's long-context design, which Nomic describes as supporting 8,192 tokens.
Apache-2.0 · Released Feb 14, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Nomic AI · Nomic Embed family
A multilingual text embedding model that uses a mixture-of-experts design (8 experts, top-2 routing), with 475M total and 305M active parameters. It covers about 100 languages, produces 768-dimensional embeddings that can be truncated to 256 through Matryoshka training, and accepts inputs of up to 512 tokens. Nomic released it in February 2025.
Apache-2.0 · Released Feb 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA
Cosmos is NVIDIA's family of world foundation models, datasets, and tools for physical AI such as robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart infrastructure. Earlier generations were released as separate Predict, Transfer, and Reason models (for example Cosmos-Predict2.5 and Cosmos-Reason2). Cosmos 3 merges understanding and generation of text, images, video, audio, and actions in one mixture-of-transformers model family; its Super (64B) and Nano (16B) models were released on May 31, 2026, and the Edge (4B) model followed in July 2026.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Cosmos family
Cosmos3-Nano is the 16B-parameter model in NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 family, released on May 31, 2026. It shares the family's mixture-of-transformers design, generating text autoregressively and images, video, audio, and robot actions by diffusion, from combinations of text, image, video, audio, and action-trajectory inputs.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1), OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (Cosmos-Framework code) · Released May 31, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Cosmos family
Cosmos3-Super is the 64B-parameter model in NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 family, released on May 31, 2026. It uses a mixture-of-transformers design with an autoregressive tower that generates text and a diffusion tower that generates images, video, audio, and robot actions, and it takes combinations of text, image, video, audio, and action-trajectory inputs.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1), OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (Cosmos-Framework code) · Released May 31, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA
cuOpt is NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated optimization engine for linear programming, quadratic programming, and vehicle routing, with beta support for mixed integer, quadratically constrained quadratic, and second-order cone programming. Its core is written in C++ with C, Python, and server APIs. NVIDIA announced in March 2025 that it would open-source cuOpt, and an NVIDIA post in June 2025 said it was available under Apache 2.0.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
NVIDIA
Dynamo is NVIDIA's open-source framework for serving generative AI models across many GPUs and nodes. It sits above inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM and adds disaggregated prefill and decode, KV-cache-aware request routing, KV cache offloading, and SLA-based autoscaling behind an OpenAI-compatible frontend. It is written in Rust and Python.
Apache-2.0 · Released Mar 18, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
NVIDIA
Isaac GR00T N is NVIDIA's family of open vision-language-action models for humanoid and other robots. The models take camera images, language instructions, and robot state and output continuous actions, using a vision-language backbone with a diffusion-transformer action head. The repository describes N1.7 as the latest version of GR00T N1 and lists N1.5 and N1.6 as previous releases.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N family
GR00T N1.7 is a 3B-parameter vision-language-action model from NVIDIA that maps camera images, language instructions, and robot proprioception to continuous robot actions. It replaces the earlier Eagle backbone with Cosmos-Reason2-2B and uses a flow-matching diffusion transformer as its action head. NVIDIA first released it in early access in April 2026; the repository now describes it as a general availability release.
NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement, Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 17, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA
Isaac Lab is an open-source, GPU-accelerated framework for robot learning built on NVIDIA Isaac Sim. It provides robot models, ready-to-train environments, sensor simulation, and workflows for reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and motion planning. Its technical report describes it as the successor to Isaac Gym; its development started from the Orbit framework.
BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0 · Released Jun 2024Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
NVIDIA
NeMo Framework is NVIDIA's open-source Python framework for pretraining, post-training, and reinforcement learning of generative AI models, organized as separate libraries in the NVIDIA-NeMo GitHub organization, including Megatron Bridge, AutoModel, NeMo RL, Curator, Evaluator, Export-Deploy, Run, and NeMo Speech. In 2026 the original NeMo repository was split and now focuses on audio, speech, and multimodal LLMs as NeMo Speech (version 3.0), and for the framework container from 26.02 onward NVIDIA points to Megatron Bridge's documentation and release notes.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA
Nemotron is NVIDIA's family of models for building AI agents. The current generation is organized into Nano, Lightning, Super, and Ultra tiers; NVIDIA publishes the weights on Hugging Face and, for several releases, training datasets and training recipes.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Nemotron family
Nemotron 3 Super is an NVIDIA language model with 120B total and 12B active parameters, using a hybrid Mamba-2 and attention architecture with latent mixture-of-experts layers and multi-token prediction, and configurable reasoning. NVIDIA released BF16, FP8, and NVFP4 checkpoints and a separate base checkpoint on Hugging Face.
NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License, Apache-2.0 · Released Mar 11, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Nemotron family
Nemotron 3 Ultra is an NVIDIA language model with 550B total and 55B active parameters, built on a hybrid Mamba-2 and attention architecture with latent mixture-of-experts layers and multi-token prediction. Reasoning can be switched on or off through the chat template. NVIDIA released BF16 and NVFP4 checkpoints and a separate base checkpoint on Hugging Face.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, Apache-2.0 · Released Jun 4, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Nemotron family
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an NVIDIA language model with 30B total and 3B active parameters, using a hybrid Mamba-2 and attention mixture-of-experts architecture with multi-token prediction and configurable reasoning. NVIDIA released full-precision BF16 weights, an NVFP4 checkpoint for deployment, draft models for speculative decoding, and a separate base checkpoint.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, Apache-2.0 · Released Aug 11, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Nemotron family
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an NVIDIA vision-language model with 120B total and 12B active parameters. It pairs a hybrid Mamba-2 and attention mixture-of-experts language backbone with a C-RADIO vision encoder, accepts text, image, and video input with text output, supports a context of up to 1M tokens, and includes a multi-token prediction head for speculative decoding. NVIDIA published BF16 and NVFP4 post-trained checkpoints and a text-only base checkpoint.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 15, 2026Reviewed Oct 18, 2026
NVIDIA · NVIDIA Nemotron family
Dory1.0-4B is a 4B-parameter looped (latent-recurrent) language model from NVIDIA's Nemotron Labs. It reuses a shared block of layers several times per token, so one checkpoint can run at different compute levels by changing the loop count. The card lists English as the supported language and a context of up to 256K tokens, and NVIDIA publishes BF16, MXFP8, NVFP4, and GGUF (Q5_K_M) versions.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 · Released Oct 16, 2026Reviewed Oct 18, 2026
NVIDIA (NeMo)
Parakeet is NVIDIA's family of automatic speech recognition models built on the FastConformer encoder in the NeMo toolkit, released with CTC, RNN-T, TDT, and hybrid TDT-CTC decoders. The first checkpoints were published on Hugging Face in December 2023; the card for one of them, parakeet-rnnt-1.1b, says it was developed jointly by the NVIDIA NeMo and Suno.ai teams. Later releases include the English parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (April 2025), the 25-language parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (August 2025), and parakeet-unified-en-0.6b (April 2026), which handles offline and streaming transcription in one model; there are also language-specific checkpoints such as Japanese, Danish, and Vietnamese.
Released Dec 2023Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
NVIDIA (NeMo) · NVIDIA Parakeet family
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 is a 600-million-parameter multilingual speech recognition model with a FastConformer encoder and a TDT decoder, which predicts tokens and their durations jointly. It extends parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 from English to 25 European languages, detects the spoken language automatically, and outputs punctuated, capitalized text with word- and segment-level timestamps. NVIDIA released it on Hugging Face on August 14, 2025.
CC-BY-4.0, Apache-2.0 · Released Aug 14, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
NVIDIA (NeMo) · NVIDIA Parakeet family
parakeet-unified-en-0.6b is a 600M-parameter English speech recognition model that serves both offline and streaming transcription from one checkpoint. It pairs a 24-layer FastConformer encoder, trained jointly in offline and streaming modes with a mode-consistency regularization loss, with an RNN-T decoder; streaming latency can be set from 2,080 ms down to 160 ms. Output includes punctuation and capitalization. NVIDIA released it on Hugging Face on April 7, 2026.
NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement, Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 7, 2026Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Ollama Inc.
Ollama is an open-source application and runtime for downloading and running open models on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It has an API, Python and JavaScript client libraries, and integrations with coding agents and other tools. Its company, Ollama Inc., also offers cloud-hosted models.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
OLMo (styled Olmo in recent releases) is Ai2's series of open language models. Releases have included the first OLMo 1B and 7B models (February 2024), OLMoE (September 2024), OLMo 2 (November 2024 to May 2025), and Olmo 3 at 7B and 32B (November 2025), with Olmo 3.1 32B checkpoints added in December 2025. In March 2026 Ai2 also released Olmo Hybrid, a 7B model that mixes attention layers with linear RNN layers.
Released Feb 1, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) · OLMo family
The pretrained base model at the 7B scale in Ai2's Olmo 3 release, trained in three stages (pretraining, mid-training, and long-context extension) on Dolma 3 data. The model card lists 5.93 trillion training tokens, 32 layers, and a 65,536-token context length.
Apache-2.0 · Released Nov 20, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) · OLMo family
A 7B chat model in Ai2's Olmo 3 release, post-trained from the Olmo 3 7B base model with supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards on the Dolci datasets. It responds without a separate reasoning trace, unlike the Olmo 3 Think models.
Apache-2.0 · Released Nov 20, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) · OLMo family
A 32B reasoning model from Ai2's December 2025 Olmo 3.1 update. It was produced by continuing the reinforcement learning run behind Olmo 3 32B Think for about three more weeks with additional passes over the Dolci-Think-RL data, and it writes a reasoning trace before its final answer.
Apache-2.0 · Released Dec 12, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2
OLMo-core is Ai2's Python library of building blocks for large-scale distributed training with PyTorch, used for its OLMo language models. The repository also holds the official training scripts for released OLMo 2 and Olmo 3 models and has beta support for text generation, including a chat demo. Version 3.0.0 was released on October 1, 2026.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
ONNX project (hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation)
ONNX is an open format for representing machine learning models, covering both deep learning and traditional ML. It defines an extensible computation graph model, built-in operators, and standard data types, with a current focus on inference. Facebook and Microsoft started the ONNX community in 2017, and LF AI announced it as a graduate-level project in November 2019.
Apache-2.0 · Released Sep 29, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft
ONNX Runtime is Microsoft's open-source, cross-platform engine for running and accelerating machine-learning models in the ONNX format. It runs models exported from frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow/Keras and from classical libraries such as scikit-learn, LightGBM, and XGBoost, applying graph optimizations and hardware-specific execution providers; it also offers accelerated training for transformer models on NVIDIA GPUs.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Open WebUI, Inc.
Open WebUI is a self-hosted web interface for AI models that is built to run entirely offline. It connects to Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs and includes retrieval over local documents, role-based user and group permissions, plugins, and voice features.
Open WebUI License (BSD 3-Clause terms plus a branding clause), BSD-3-Clause, MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
OpenAI
The OpenAI Agents SDK is an open-source framework from OpenAI for building multi-agent workflows from agents, tools, handoffs, guardrails, and sessions, with built-in tracing. OpenAI describes it as a production-ready upgrade of its earlier Swarm experiment. The Python SDK has a separate JavaScript/TypeScript counterpart.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Evals is an open-source framework from OpenAI for evaluating language models and systems built on them, together with a registry of existing evals. Evals are defined in YAML and run from the oaieval and oaievalset command-line tools against "completion functions", which by default call models through the OpenAI API. The repository is not archived, but activity since mid-2024 has been limited to maintenance, and its README now points users to OpenAI's hosted Evals in the OpenAI dashboard.
MIT · Released Mar 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI MCP Extensions is a specification and pair of SDKs from OpenAI that add ChatGPT-specific capabilities on top of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and MCP Apps, so that plugins can appear in ChatGPT's interface. Documented extensions include sidebar and thread entrypoints, file-type handlers, structured settings, composer at-mentions, and extended form elicitation. The TypeScript SDK extends the official MCP TypeScript SDKs for servers and apps; the Python SDK extends the official MCP Python SDK for servers.
Apache-2.0 · Released Sep 29, 2026Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
OpenClaw Foundation
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI assistant with a gateway connecting model providers, tools, and messaging channels. It provides command-line and browser interfaces and supports both hosted and local model providers.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
Apple
OpenELM is a family of small language models released by Apple in April 2024 in 270M, 450M, 1.1B, and 3B parameter sizes, each as a pretrained and an instruction-tuned model. The models use layer-wise scaling to allocate parameters across transformer layers, and Apple published them together with its CoreNet training library, pre-training configurations, training logs, and evaluation instructions.
Released Apr 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Apple · OpenELM family
OpenELM 3B Instruct is the 3B-parameter instruction-tuned model in Apple's April 2024 OpenELM release. It was pretrained with Apple's CoreNet library on about 1.8 trillion tokens of public data and then instruction-tuned on the UltraFeedback dataset using the Hugging Face Alignment Handbook.
Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement, Apple software license (CoreNet) · Released Apr 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
All Hands AI (OpenHands)
OpenHands is an open-source platform for building and running AI coding agents. Its main repository now holds Agent Canvas, a self-hosted browser control center. Agent Canvas runs the OpenHands agent, or other agents that support the Agent Client Protocol, on local, remote, or cloud backends. The agent itself, the Python SDK, and the Agent Server are developed in the separate Software Agent SDK repository.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Physical Intelligence
openpi is Physical Intelligence's repository of code and model checkpoints for its π0, π0-FAST, and π0.5 vision-language-action models for robot control. It provides base checkpoints pre-trained on more than 10,000 hours of robot data, fine-tuned checkpoints for the ALOHA, DROID, and LIBERO setups, and JAX and PyTorch code for inference and fine-tuning.
Apache-2.0 · Released Feb 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Intel
OpenVINO is Intel's open-source toolkit for converting, optimizing, and running deep learning models, including language and generative models. It converts models from PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, PaddlePaddle, JAX, and other frameworks and runs inference on CPUs (x86 and ARM), Intel GPUs, and Intel NPUs, with APIs in C++, Python, C, and Node.js.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
OpenXLA project maintainers (Google-led technical leadership)
OpenXLA is an open-source project that develops machine learning compiler and infrastructure components linking frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow to hardware backends. Its website lists XLA (a compiler for GPUs, CPUs, and ML accelerators), StableHLO (a portable operation set), Shardy (an MLIR-based tensor partitioner), PJRT (a device and compiler interface), XProf (profiling tools), and Tokamax.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Writer
Palmyra is Writer's family of language models. The Palmyra X models (currently X4, X5, and X6) are offered through Writer's platform and API. Writer has also published Palmyra models on Hugging Face: Palmyra-X-4.3-73B and domain models for medicine and finance under its non-commercial open model license, and the small Palmyra-mini models (September 2025) under Apache 2.0.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Writer · Palmyra family
A small text model from Writer, fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-1.5B, that the model card lists at 1.7 billion parameters with a 131,072-token context window. It is the non-reasoning member of the three-model Palmyra-mini family that Writer released in September 2025.
Apache-2.0 · Released Sep 11, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Writer · Palmyra family
A small reasoning model in Writer's Palmyra-mini family, released in September 2025. Writer built it on NVIDIA's OpenReasoning-Nemotron-1.5B and applied reinforcement-learning fine-tuning; the model card lists a 131,072-token context window.
Apache-2.0 · Released Sep 11, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
FutureHouse
PaperQA is a Python package and command-line tool (pqa) from FutureHouse for retrieval-augmented question answering over PDFs, text, Office documents, and source code, focused on scientific literature. Versions 5 and later, called PaperQA2, add an agent that searches papers, gathers evidence, and writes answers with in-text citations; the package moved to calendar versioning in December 2025.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Meridian Labs
Petri (Parallel Exploration Tool for Risky Interactions) is an open-source tool for automated alignment audits of language models. An auditor model drives multi-turn conversations with a target model from seed instructions, simulating tools and rolling back turns, and a judge model scores the transcripts. Anthropic released it in October 2025 and handed its development to Meridian Labs, an AI evaluation nonprofit, in May 2026 with the release of Petri 3.0. The repository moved from safety-research/petri to meridianlabs-ai/inspect_petri.
MIT · Released Oct 6, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Microsoft
Phi is Microsoft's family of small language models. Generations have included Phi-3, Phi-3.5, and Phi-4, with instruction, reasoning, multimodal, and vision-language variants published on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry. Recent Phi-4 releases include Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning (July 2025) and Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B (March 2026).
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft · Phi family
Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning is a 3.8-billion-parameter, English, text-only Microsoft model fine-tuned for mathematical reasoning. It uses a hybrid "SambaY" decoder-hybrid-decoder architecture that mixes state space model layers with attention and Differential Attention, and supports a 64K-token context.
MIT · Released Jul 9, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Microsoft · Phi family
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is a 15-billion-parameter multimodal reasoning model from Microsoft. It combines the Phi-4-Reasoning language model with a SigLIP-2 vision encoder, takes text and images as input, produces text, and has a 16,384-token context length. It can either reason step by step or answer directly, depending on the task.
MIT · Released Mar 4, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Prime Intellect
prime-rl is Prime Intellect's open-source framework for large-scale, asynchronous reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning of language models. It separates an FSDP2-based trainer, a vLLM inference service, and an orchestrator that gathers rollouts from verifiers environments, and it supports multi-node deployment on Slurm and Kubernetes.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Profluent
Profluent-E1 is a family of protein encoder language models from Profluent, announced in November 2025 in 150M, 300M, and 600M parameter sizes. The models can take homologous sequences alongside a query sequence (retrieval augmentation) or run on a single sequence, and Profluent presents them as drop-in replacements for ESM-family encoders.
Released Nov 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Profluent · Profluent-E1 family
The 150M-parameter member of the Profluent-E1 family of retrieval-augmented protein encoder models, released in November 2025 alongside E1-600m and E1-300m. The Hugging Face safetensors metadata counts 154,423,330 parameters stored in BF16. It can encode a single protein sequence or a query preceded by homologous sequences.
Profluent-E1 Clickthrough License Agreement, Apache-2.0 · Released Nov 13, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Profluent · Profluent-E1 family
The 300M-parameter member of the Profluent-E1 family of retrieval-augmented protein encoder models, released in November 2025 alongside E1-600m and E1-150m. The Hugging Face safetensors metadata counts 274,317,346 parameters stored in BF16. It can encode a single protein sequence or a query preceded by homologous sequences.
Profluent-E1 Clickthrough License Agreement, Apache-2.0 · Released Nov 13, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Profluent · Profluent-E1 family
The 600M-parameter member of the Profluent-E1 family of retrieval-augmented protein encoder models, released in November 2025 alongside E1-300m and E1-150m. The Hugging Face safetensors metadata counts 641,438,754 parameters stored in BF16. It can encode a single protein sequence or a query preceded by homologous sequences.
Profluent-E1 Clickthrough License Agreement, Apache-2.0 · Released Nov 13, 2025Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
EleutherAI
Pythia is EleutherAI's suite of language models built for research on how models learn during training and change with scale. The main suite has eight sizes from 70M to 12B parameters, each trained once on the Pile and once on a deduplicated Pile, on the same data in the same order, with 154 checkpoints per model. The current suite was retrained and re-released in April 2023; 14M and 31M models and additional random-seed runs were added later.
Released Apr 3, 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
EleutherAI · Pythia family
The largest model in EleutherAI's Pythia suite: an English decoder-only language model with about 11.8 billion total parameters, trained on the Pile (not deduplicated) for about 300 billion tokens. EleutherAI publishes 154 checkpoints from initialization to the end of training as Hugging Face branches.
Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 3, 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
PyTorch Foundation
PyTorch is an open-source machine learning framework for tensors and dynamic neural networks in Python, with GPU acceleration and a C++ distribution (LibTorch). Meta originally developed it and released it in 2016. Since September 2022 it has been hosted by the PyTorch Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
BSD-3-Clause · Released 2016Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Lightning AI
PyTorch Lightning is an open-source Python framework that structures PyTorch training code and handles engineering tasks such as multi-GPU and multi-node distributed training and mixed precision. The same repository contains Lightning Fabric, a lighter layer for scaling custom PyTorch training loops, and both ship in the lightning package. It was open-sourced in 2019 and is maintained by Lightning AI.
Apache-2.0 · Released 2019Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
A Python package and GitHub repository of machine learning models prepared for deployment on Qualcomm devices. It provides export scripts that compile, quantize where applicable, profile, and run models through Qualcomm AI Hub Workbench, end-to-end demos for most models, and sample application code. Many of the packaged models come from other developers, such as YOLO, Llama, Mistral, Phi, and Qwen variants.
BSD-3-Clause · Released Feb 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
PyTorch Foundation (hosted project)
Ray is an open-source distributed computing framework for AI workloads, with a core distributed runtime and libraries for data processing, training, and serving. It was developed at UC Berkeley's RISELab and became a PyTorch Foundation-hosted project in October 2025, contributed by Anyscale.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Together AI (Together Computer, Inc.)
RedPajama is Together AI's open pretraining dataset project. RedPajama-V1 (RedPajama-Data-1T, 2023) is a 1.2-trillion-token reproduction of the LLaMA training-data recipe drawn from Common Crawl, C4, GitHub, arXiv, Wikipedia, and Stack Exchange. The current version, RedPajama-V2 (October 2023), contains over 100 billion documents from 84 Common Crawl snapshots in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian, with more than 40 precomputed quality signals and duplicate markers; its deduplicated, annotated portion is about 30 trillion tokens.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 30, 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Reka
Reka Flash is a line of Reka language models; this record covers its open-weight releases. Reka Flash 3 (March 2025) is a 21B-parameter reasoning model that Reka says was pretrained from scratch on publicly accessible and synthetic data, then instruction-tuned and trained with reinforcement learning; it was released as open weights under the Apache License 2.0. Reka Flash 3.1 (July 2025) updated it with further reinforcement learning aimed at coding and agentic tasks, and was released with a 3.5-bit quantized version and the Reka Quant quantization library.
Released Mar 10, 2025Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
Reka · Reka Flash family
A 21B-parameter language model released by Reka in July 2025 as an update to Reka Flash 3. Reka post-trained it with supervised fine-tuning on synthetic and public datasets followed by large-scale reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, with a focus on coding and on serving as a base for fine-tuning on agentic tasks. It writes a reasoning trace before its answer.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jul 10, 2025Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
Essential AI
Rnj is Essential AI's line of 8B-parameter dense language models trained from scratch and aimed at code and STEM work. Rnj-1 (a base model and an instruction-tuned model) was released in December 2025, followed in 2026 by Rnj-1.5 Instruct, which extends the context window from 32K to 160K tokens.
Released Dec 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Essential AI · Rnj family
The instruction-tuned version of Essential AI's Rnj-1, an 8.3B-parameter dense model trained from scratch. The base model was pretrained on 8.4T tokens at an 8K context, extended to a 32K context in a 380B-token mid-training stage, and then given a 150B-token supervised fine-tuning stage to produce this model.
Apache-2.0 · Released Dec 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Essential AI · Rnj family
A long-context follow-up to Rnj-1 Instruct that extends the context window from 32K to 160K tokens. Essential AI built it from the Rnj-1 base model, switching most attention layers to block-local attention with a group of global layers in the middle, and added long-context mid-training data and more software-engineering training data.
Apache-2.0 · Released 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
AMD
ROCm is AMD's open software stack for GPU-accelerated computing on AMD GPUs. Its Core SDK includes the HIP runtime and programming interface, compilers including LLVM, math and deep learning libraries such as rocBLAS and MIOpen, the RCCL communication library, and profiling, debugging, and monitoring tools. Since version 7.14 it has been built and released through TheRock, AMD's open build and release system; version 10.1.0 was released on October 5, 2026.
MIT, Apache-2.0, Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception, NCSA, BSD-2-Clause, GNU General Public License v3.0 (ROCgdb), GPL 2.0 with Linux-syscall-note (ROCK-Kernel-Driver), Custom licenses (hipCUB, RCCL)Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
Meta (FAIR) · Segment Anything (SAM) family
SAM 2.1 Hiera-Large is the largest checkpoint (224.4M parameters, per the README) in Meta's SAM 2.1 suite, an improved set of SAM 2 checkpoints released in September 2024. SAM 2 is a transformer with streaming memory that segments objects in images and tracks them through video from point, box, or mask prompts.
Apache-2.0 · Released Sep 29, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs) · Segment Anything (SAM) family
SAM 3.1 is a March 2026 update of Meta's SAM 3, a model that detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and video from text phrases, image exemplars, or visual prompts such as points, boxes, and masks. The update adds Object Multiplex, which groups tracked objects into shared-memory buckets and processes them jointly instead of one at a time, together with new checkpoints and inference optimizations.
SAM License · Released Mar 27, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta
Segment Anything is Meta's family of promptable segmentation models. The original SAM (April 2023) produces object masks in images from prompts such as points or boxes; SAM 2 (July 2024, updated as SAM 2.1 in September 2024) extends this to video with streaming memory; SAM 3 (November 2025, updated as SAM 3.1 in March 2026) adds detection, segmentation, and tracking of every instance of a concept named by a short text phrase or image exemplar. Licenses differ by generation: Apache 2.0 for SAM and SAM 2, and Meta's custom SAM License for SAM 3.
Released Apr 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Hugging Face
Sentence Transformers is a Python framework for using and training embedding and reranker models. It computes dense embeddings with Sentence Transformer models, scores text pairs with Cross-Encoder (reranker) models, and also supports sparse encoders and multi-vector models for ColBERT-style late-interaction retrieval, with pretrained models published on Hugging Face. Version 6.1.0 was released on September 18, 2026.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
LMSYS (hosting organization), RadixArk (company described as a maintainer in a post on the LMSYS blog)
SGLang is an open-source serving framework for large language models and multimodal models, designed for low-latency, high-throughput inference on anything from a single GPU to large distributed clusters. Its runtime features include RadixAttention prefix caching, prefill-decode disaggregation, speculative decoding, continuous batching, several forms of parallelism, structured outputs, and quantization.
Apache-2.0 · Released Sep 18, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Hugging Face
smolagents is an open-source Python library from Hugging Face for building agents with few abstractions. Its CodeAgent writes its actions as Python code, a ToolCallingAgent uses conventional tool calling, and agents and tools can be shared through the Hugging Face Hub.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Hugging Face (Smol Models Research, HuggingFaceTB)
SmolLM is Hugging Face's series of small language models. The first SmolLM release (July 2024) came in 135M, 360M, and 1.7B sizes; SmolLM2 kept those three sizes, with the 1.7B model trained on about 11 trillion tokens (paper February 2025); and SmolLM3 (July 2025) is a 3B model released as base and instruct checkpoints, with a dual-mode reasoning instruct model. The SmolVLM vision-language models are maintained in the same repository.
Released Jul 16, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Hugging Face (Smol Models Research, HuggingFaceTB) · SmolLM family
SmolLM3-3B is the instruct model of Hugging Face's SmolLM3 release (July 2025), a 3B-parameter decoder-only transformer pretrained on about 11 trillion tokens of web, code, math, and reasoning data in stages, then mid-trained on reasoning data and aligned with supervised fine-tuning and Anchored Preference Optimization. It can answer with or without an extended reasoning trace, supports tool calling, and natively covers six European languages.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jul 8, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Snowflake AI Research
Arctic is a text-in, text-and-code-out language model pretrained from scratch by the Snowflake AI Research Team. It uses a dense-MoE hybrid transformer that combines a 10B dense model with a residual 128x3.66B mixture-of-experts MLP, for 480B total and 17B active parameters with top-2 gating. Base and instruct-tuned checkpoints were released on April 24, 2024 with weights and code under Apache-2.0.
Released Apr 24, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Snowflake AI Research · Snowflake Arctic family
Arctic Base is the pretrained checkpoint of Snowflake Arctic, a dense-MoE hybrid transformer (a 10B dense model plus a residual 128x3.66B MoE MLP) with 480B total and 17B active parameters, pretrained from scratch by the Snowflake AI Research Team. It takes text input and generates text and code.
Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 24, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Snowflake AI Research · Snowflake Arctic family
Arctic Instruct is the instruct-tuned checkpoint of Snowflake Arctic, a dense-MoE hybrid transformer (a 10B dense model plus a residual 128x3.66B MoE MLP) with 480B total and 17B active parameters, developed by the Snowflake AI Research Team. It takes text input and generates text and code.
Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 24, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
World Labs
Spark is an open-source JavaScript renderer for 3D Gaussian splats built on THREE.js, made by World Labs. It renders splats together with ordinary meshes, loads common splat formats such as PLY, SPZ, and SPLAT, and lets splats be edited and animated on the GPU. Spark 2.0 added a level-of-detail system for streaming large splat worlds.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
GitHub
Spec Kit is an open-source toolkit from GitHub that gives AI coding agents structured processes and reusable templates. Its core process, spec-driven development, turns requirements into a specification, a technical plan, and a task list before implementation; bug-fixing and idea-assessment processes are available as bundled extensions.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
BigCode project (open scientific collaboration), Hugging Face (BigCode co-steward), ServiceNow (BigCode co-steward)
StarCoder2 is a family of code generation models from the BigCode project, released on February 28, 2024 in 3B, 7B, and 15B sizes and trained on The Stack v2. Per Hugging Face's announcement, ServiceNow trained the 3B model, Hugging Face the 7B model, and NVIDIA the 15B model. The bigcode organization on Hugging Face also hosts an instruction-tuned variant, StarCoder2-15B-Instruct-v0.1.
Released Feb 28, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
BigCode project (open scientific collaboration), Hugging Face (BigCode co-steward), ServiceNow (BigCode co-steward) · StarCoder2 family
The largest StarCoder2 base model, with 15B parameters, trained on more than 4 trillion tokens covering 600+ programming languages from The Stack v2. It uses grouped-query attention, a 16,384-token context window with 4,096-token sliding-window attention, and a fill-in-the-middle training objective. NVIDIA trained it with the NeMo framework on its Eos supercomputer.
BigCode OpenRAIL-M v1 License Agreement, Apache-2.0 · Released Feb 28, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
BigCode project (open scientific collaboration), ServiceNow (BigCode co-steward; trained this model), Hugging Face (BigCode co-steward) · StarCoder2 family
The smallest StarCoder2 base model, with about 3B parameters, trained on more than 3 trillion tokens from The Stack v2 and other sources. Its model card lists 17 programming languages, grouped-query attention, a 16,384-token context window with 4,096-token sliding-window attention, and a fill-in-the-middle objective. ServiceNow trained it for the BigCode project.
BigCode OpenRAIL-M v1 License Agreement, Apache-2.0 · Released Feb 28, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Strands Agents is an open-source SDK from AWS for building and running AI agents in Python and TypeScript. It runs a model-driven agent loop in the developer's own process, with tools, MCP support, multi-agent patterns, memory and sessions, and tracing. Its repository also holds Strands harness, a preassembled agent, along with a CLI and the documentation site.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
ServiceNow (SLAM Labs) · Apriel family
A 15B-parameter instruction-tuned "supernet" in which each of 48 decoder layers carries four token-mixer variants: full attention, sliding-window attention, Gated DeltaNet, and Kimi Delta Attention. Choosing one mixer per layer gives deployment presets that trade output quality for decoding speed from a single checkpoint. It was derived from Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker by distillation followed by supervised fine-tuning.
MIT, Apache-2.0 · Released Apr 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta
SWE-sweep is a software-engineering benchmark in which a coding agent is given a real repository containing many known bugs, with no hint about their type or location, and must find and fix as many as it can. Each task is built from real GitHub issue and pull-request pairs at a commit where many of those bugs are present at once, and repairs are graded with hidden tests from the fixing pull requests plus the existing test suite to catch regressions. The paper describes 100 repositories across 22 programming languages.
MIT · Released Oct 1, 2026Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
Google DeepMind
SynthID Bio is a set of methods from Google DeepMind for watermarking AI-generated protein sequences and biomolecular structures so that their AI origin can later be detected. SynthID Bio-sequence adds watermarked sampling to the ProteinMPNN inverse-folding model, and SynthID Bio-structure is a fine-tuned AlphaFold 3 model that embeds a watermark in generated structures. The public repository contains the sequence watermarking code, a standalone detection script, and data supporting the paper.
Apache-2.0, MIT, CC-BY-4.0 · Released Sep 30, 2026Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
Google DeepMind
SynthID Text is Google DeepMind's reference implementation of the text watermarking method described in its 2024 Nature paper. The method changes only how a language model samples tokens, using a configuration built around a sequence of integer keys, and detects the watermark from the text without running the model. The repository provides mean, weighted mean, and Bayesian scoring functions for detection, a mix-in that adds watermarking to Gemma and GPT-2 classes from Hugging Face Transformers, a Colab notebook, and human evaluation data.
Apache-2.0, CC-BY-4.0 · Released Oct 23, 2024Reviewed Oct 8, 2026
T3 Tools, Inc. (Ping Labs)
T3 Code is an open-source app for running and controlling coding agents. A local server starts sessions in agent tools the user has already installed and signed in to, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, and Google Antigravity, and the user works with them from a desktop app, a web app, or iOS and Android apps, including from another machine or a phone.
MITReviewed Oct 18, 2026
Google (TensorFlow team)
TensorFlow is an open-source, end-to-end machine learning platform with stable Python and C++ APIs, originally developed within Google Brain. With the 2.21 release in March 2026, Google said it would limit TensorFlow work to security and bug fixes, dependency updates, and community contributions, and pointed new generative AI work to Keras 3, JAX, and PyTorch.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
NVIDIA
TensorRT-LLM is NVIDIA's open-source library for running large language model inference on NVIDIA GPUs. It provides a Python LLM API, optimized kernels, Python and C++ runtimes, and an online serving command (trtllm-serve).
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Stanford University, Laude Institute, Harbor (harbor-framework project)
Terminal-Bench is a benchmark of hard tasks that AI agents must complete in command-line environments; each task has its own container environment, a human-written reference solution, and verification tests. It was first released in May 2025; Terminal-Bench 2.0 (November 2025, 89 tasks) introduced the Harbor framework for running tasks, and since July 2026 it has been maintained as a "continuous benchmark" with versioned releases, the latest being 4.0 (August 2026).
Apache-2.0 · Released May 19, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
EleutherAI
The Pile is an 825 GiB English text dataset for language-model pretraining, assembled by EleutherAI from 22 component datasets that include web text (Pile-CC, from Common Crawl), academic and professional sources such as PubMed Central, arXiv, and FreeLaw, books, GitHub code, and dialogue. It was described in a December 2020 paper and a 2022 datasheet and is the training corpus of EleutherAI's Pythia models. Its current availability is limited; see access conditions.
MITReviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI
tiktoken is OpenAI's open-source byte pair encoding (BPE) tokenizer for use with OpenAI's models. It converts text to the token numbers a model sees and back, using named encodings such as o200k_base and cl100k_base, and can return the encoding that corresponds to a given OpenAI model name. It also includes an educational submodule for training and visualizing a simple BPE tokenizer, and a plugin mechanism for registering other encodings.
MITReviewed Oct 8, 2026
Google Research
TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a family of pretrained time-series forecasting models developed by Google Research, first described in an ICML 2024 paper. Open checkpoints have been released as versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.5 (September 2025), and 3.0 (August 2026); version 3.0 adds native multivariate forecasting and native support for past-only and past-and-future covariates.
Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google Research · TimesFM family
TimesFM 2.5 is a 200M-parameter time-series forecasting model from Google Research, released in September 2025. Compared with TimesFM 2.0 it has fewer parameters (200M, down from 500M), a context length of up to 16k points, an optional 30M quantile head for continuous quantile forecasts up to a 1k horizon, and no frequency indicator input.
Apache-2.0 · Released Sep 15, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Google Research · TimesFM family
TimesFM 3.0 is a Google Research time-series forecasting model released in August 2026. Google's announcement gives it 330 million parameters and describes native multivariate forecasting, support for past-only and past-and-future covariates, and probabilistic forecasts with nine quantiles. The model card lists a 20-layer transformer architecture.
TimesFM Non-Commercial License v1.0, Apache-2.0 · Released Aug 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
tiny corp
tinygrad is a small end-to-end deep learning framework with a tensor library and autograd, an IR and compiler that fuse and lower kernels, a JIT, and modules for neural networks, optimizers, and datasets. Its API is similar to PyTorch's, and it supports both training and inference across several accelerator backends.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
Polo Club of Data Science, Georgia Tech
Transformer Explainer is an open-source interactive visualization that runs the GPT-2 (small) model, which has 124 million parameters, in the web browser. Users enter their own text and follow how the Transformer's components and operations combine to predict the next token. It was created by the Polo Club of Data Science at Georgia Tech and is described in a CHI 2026 paper.
MIT · Released Jun 11, 2024Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Hugging Face
Transformers is Hugging Face's open-source Python library of model definitions for text, vision, audio, video, and multimodal models, used for both inference and training. Its README presents it as a shared model-definition layer that other training frameworks and inference engines build on, and it loads pretrained checkpoints from the Hugging Face Hub.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Arcee AI
Trinity is Arcee AI's family of sparse mixture-of-experts language models: Trinity Nano (6B total, about 1B active parameters), Trinity Mini (26B total, 3B active), and Trinity Large (about 398B total, 13B active). Trinity Large is published as base, pre-anneal base, preview, and reasoning-tuned Thinking checkpoints.
Released Dec 1, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Arcee AI · Trinity family
Trinity Mini is a 26B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters, 128 experts (8 active plus 1 shared), and a 128k-token context window. It was trained on 10 trillion tokens and tuned for reasoning.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 · Released Dec 1, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Arcee AI · Trinity family
Trinity-Large-Thinking is a reasoning-tuned sparse mixture-of-experts model with about 398B total and 13B active parameters per token and a 512k-token context window. It was post-trained from Trinity-Large-Base with chain-of-thought and agentic reinforcement learning, and writes its reasoning in think blocks before answering.
OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 · Released Apr 1, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Hugging Face
TRL is Hugging Face's open-source library for post-training transformer language models. It provides trainer classes for methods including supervised fine-tuning (SFT), Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), KTO, and reward modeling, with further methods marked experimental, and it is built on the Transformers library.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Tülu is Ai2's line of instruction-following models together with the open post-training recipe used to produce them. Tülu 3 (November 2024) applied supervised fine-tuning, Direct Preference Optimization, and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to Meta's Llama 3.1 base models at 8B and 70B, followed by a 405B model in January 2025 and by Tülu 3.1 8B, which changed only the final RL stage (from PPO to GRPO).
Released Nov 21, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Unsloth
Unsloth is an open-source Python library for fine-tuning and reinforcement learning of language, diffusion, text-to-speech, and embedding models, supporting LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning, pretraining, GRPO, and DPO, and exporting to formats such as GGUF. The same repository contains Unsloth Studio, a web interface, and the Unsloth Desktop app.
Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0-onlyReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (FAIR)
V-JEPA 2 is Meta's family of self-supervised video encoders, pretrained on video with a masked latent-feature prediction objective. Meta released it in June 2025 with ViT-L, ViT-H, and ViT-g encoders and an action-conditioned world model (V-JEPA 2-AC) post-trained on robot video, and in March 2026 added V-JEPA 2.1, a retrained family (ViT-B to a 2B-parameter ViT-G) aimed at dense, temporally consistent features.
Released Jun 11, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (FAIR) · V-JEPA 2 family
The 1-billion-parameter ViT-g/16 encoder from Meta's V-JEPA 2, in the version that takes 64-frame clips at 384-pixel resolution. It was pretrained with self-supervision on VideoMix22M, a mix of about 22 million video and image samples. Meta's action-conditioned V-JEPA 2-AC world model was post-trained from a ViT-g/16 V-JEPA 2 encoder.
MIT, Apache-2.0 · Released Jun 11, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Meta (FAIR) · V-JEPA 2 family
The largest V-JEPA 2.1 model, a 2-billion-parameter ViT-G/16 video and image encoder released by Meta in March 2026. V-JEPA 2.1 changes the V-JEPA 2 recipe to learn dense, temporally consistent features, using a dense predictive loss over all tokens, self-supervision at several intermediate layers, and separate tokenizers for images and videos. Meta distilled this model into smaller ViT-B and ViT-L variants.
MIT · Released Mar 16, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Imbue
Vet is an open-source tool from Imbue that uses a language model to review code changes and the conversation history of coding agents, flagging likely bugs and places where an agent's actions diverge from what the user asked for. It runs from the terminal, as an installable agent skill, or as a GitHub Action on pull requests, and works with the user's own model provider keys.
AGPL-3.0-onlyReviewed Oct 2, 2026
PyTorch Foundation (hosted project), vLLM core maintainers (project Technical Steering Committee)
vLLM is an open-source inference and serving engine for large language models, originally built around the PagedAttention memory-management technique. It was developed in UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, and UC Berkeley contributed it to the PyTorch Foundation in 2025.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Waymo
Waymax is a multi-agent driving simulator written in JAX that builds scenarios from the Waymo Open Motion Dataset and represents road users as bounding boxes rather than raw sensor data. It includes data loading, visualization, metrics, simulated agents, and adapters to reinforcement learning interfaces such as dm-env and Brax.
Waymax License Agreement for Non-Commercial UseReviewed Sep 29, 2026
Waymo
Autonomous driving data collected by Waymo vehicles, released for research in August 2019 and since expanded into three datasets: Perception (lidar and camera data with labels for 2,030 segments), Motion (object trajectories and 3D maps for 103,354 segments), and End-to-End Driving (360-degree camera images and routing instructions for 5,000 segments). A companion repository provides the data format definitions, evaluation metrics, and TensorFlow helper code.
Waymo Dataset License Agreement for Non-Commercial Use (March 2025), Apache-2.0, BSD 3-clause copyright license plus a limited patent license (wdl_limited folders) · Released Aug 21, 2019Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Weights & Biases (a CoreWeave company)
wandb is the open-source Python library and command-line tool for Weights & Biases. Training scripts and notebooks use it to record runs with their hyperparameters and metrics on a W&B server, where results can be viewed and compared; a Public API in the same SDK queries logged data afterward.
MITReviewed Oct 1, 2026
Microsoft Research · Muse (Microsoft Research WHAM) family
WHAM 1.6B is the larger of the two World and Human Action Model checkpoints Microsoft Research released for Muse. It pairs a VQ-GAN image tokenizer with a transformer trained from scratch to predict game visuals and controller actions. The same repository includes a 200M-parameter checkpoint for lighter experiments.
Microsoft Research License Terms · Released Feb 19, 2025Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI
Whisper is OpenAI's family of encoder-decoder transformer models for speech recognition, speech translation into English, and language identification. The original series of English-only and multilingual checkpoints from 39M to 1550M parameters appeared in September 2022; OpenAI followed with large-v2 (December 2022), large-v3 (November 2023), and the faster large-v3-turbo (September 2024).
Released Sep 2022Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI · Whisper family
Whisper large-v3 is a 1550M-parameter multilingual speech recognition and translation model released by OpenAI in November 2023. It keeps the architecture of the earlier large models but uses 128 Mel frequency bins instead of 80 and adds a language token for Cantonese.
MIT, Apache-2.0 · Released Nov 6, 2023Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI · Whisper family
Whisper large-v3-turbo is a multilingual speech recognition model that OpenAI derived from Whisper large-v3 by cutting the decoder from 32 layers to 4 and fine-tuning for two more epochs. It has about 0.8 billion parameters (809M in the README and Hugging Face card; the repository model card lists 798M) and is the default model in the openai-whisper package.
MIT · Released Sep 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
TypeSafe AI
WorkflowEvals is TypeSafe AI's evaluation harness for four automation workflows: invoice processing, customer service, agent-trace review, and security-incident triage. Each workflow splits a written policy into narrow yes/no, choice, and score questions for a model, then combines the answers in code into actions. Runs can compare TypeSafe's Jev with models from other providers.
Apache-2.0Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Zyphra
Zamba is Zyphra's series of hybrid models that combine Mamba state-space layers with shared transformer attention blocks. Releases include Zamba-7B (April 2024); Zamba2 at 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters (July to October 2024), with instruction-tuned versions; and Zamba2-VL vision-language models at the same three sizes (June 2026).
Released Apr 16, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Zyphra · Zamba family
The 7B base model in Zyphra's Zamba2 series, announced in October 2024. It interleaves Mamba2 blocks with two shared attention blocks in an alternating pattern and adds LoRA projectors to the shared MLP blocks so that each shared block can specialize by depth.
Apache-2.0 · Released Oct 14, 2024Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Zyphra · Zamba family
The largest of the three Zamba2-VL vision-language models Zyphra released in June 2026, with about 8B parameters. It pairs the Zamba2-7B hybrid state-space language model with the Qwen2.5-VL vision encoder and handles single- and multi-image understanding and grounding.
Apache-2.0 · Released Jun 2, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
Sierra
τ-bench is Sierra's open-source simulation framework for evaluating customer-service AI agents. In each domain an agent must follow a written policy and use tools while a simulated user takes part in the conversation, in turn-based text mode or full-duplex voice mode. The current repository, which carries the τ³-bench update, covers airline, retail, telecom, and banking-knowledge domains plus a mock domain.
MIT · Released Jul 22, 2026Reviewed Sep 29, 2026
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