Models whose trained weights anyone can download, run and fine-tune: Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral and more. Named by Touvron et al., Meta AI: LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models (Feb 24, 2023). Also called Open weights, Open models, Open-source LLMs, Open-weights.
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Hacker News stories, last 12 months379 stories, +206% on the 12 months before
379 stories, +206% on the 12 months before
Adoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months1,593 papers, +300% on the 12 months before
openai/gpt-ossgpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are two open-weight language models by OpenAI · Jun 23, 2025 1y1 year ago
Jun 23, 20251y1 year ago
20,427
oumi-ai/oumiEasily fine-tune, evaluate and deploy Qwen, Gemma, or any open weight LLM! · May 7, 2024 2y2 years ago
May 7, 20242y2 years ago
9,390
Zyphra/ZonosZonos-v0.1 is a leading open-weight text-to-speech model trained on more than 200k hours of varied multilingual speech, delivering expressiv · Feb 7, 2025 1y1 year ago
Feb 7, 20251y1 year ago
7,234
google-deepmind/gemmaGemma open-weight LLM library, from Google DeepMind · Feb 20, 2024 2y2 years ago
Feb 20, 20242y2 years ago
5,746
MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. · Jun 14, 2025 1y1 year ago
Jun 14, 20251y1 year ago
3,184
AtomicBot-ai/atomic-agentAtomic Agent is a local-first AI agent. Runs open-weight models on your own machine via llama.cpp. · Apr 21, 2026 5mo5 months ago
Apr 21, 20265mo5 months ago
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Funding
3 rounds
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Date
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Fireworks AISeries D · Jul 15, 2026 2mo2 months ago
Local AIRunning language and image models on your own laptop, phone or server instead of a cloud API.
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Small language modelsCompact models, a few billion parameters or less, trained to be good enough and cheap to run anywhere.
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Mixture of expertsModels split into many expert blocks with only a few active per token, so they grow in size without growing in cost.
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Sep 24, 2026
Tracking started: emerged February 2023, rising, 4 other names recorded
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