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Open-weight models

Rising · emerged February 2023 · high October 2026 · +11% on the month before · 509 mentions on Trending in 14 days

Origin

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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Signals

AdoptionHacker News stories, last 12 months507 stories, +293% on the 12 months before
AdoptionarXiv papers, last 12 months2,149 papers, +331% on the 12 months before
AdoptionWikipedia views, October 202616,587, +468% on a year beforeAdoptionProduct releases naming it28 since Feb 19, 2026AdoptionGitHub repositories3,003AdoptionFunding rounds naming it13, $14.1B in all
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Hacker News stories, last 12 months507 stories, +293% on the 12 months beforeAdoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months2,149 papers, +331% on the 12 months beforeAdoption
Wikipedia views, October 202616,587, +468% on a year beforeAdoption
Product releases naming it28 since Feb 19, 2026Adoption
GitHub repositories3,003Adoption
Funding rounds naming it13, $14.1B in allAdoption

Trending terms

Modellast Nov 8peak 29DeepSeekThe Chinese lab and its open-weight DeepSeek models. 16 days in the top 20Modellast Nov 3peak 30QwenAlibaba's family of open-weight AI models. 20 days in the top 20, 1 at number oneModellast Oct 29peak 30Mistral Large 4A version of Mistral AI's models. 2 days in the top 20, 1 at number oneCompanylast Oct 23peak 21Mistral AIThe French AI lab behind the Mistral open-weight models and Le Chat. 5 days in the top 20Companylast Sep 21peak 27Hugging FaceThe hub where AI models, datasets and demos are shared. 8 days in the top 20
TermPeak
DeepSeekThe Chinese lab and its open-weight DeepSeek models.16 days, last Nov 8 yesterday29
QwenAlibaba's family of open-weight AI models.20 days, last Nov 3 6 days ago30
Mistral Large 4A version of Mistral AI's models.2 days, last Oct 29 11 days ago30
Mistral AIThe French AI lab behind the Mistral open-weight models and Le Chat.5 days, last Oct 23 2 weeks ago21
Hugging FaceThe hub where AI models, datasets and demos are shared.8 days, last Sep 21 7 weeks ago27

Companies

Mentions 11Mistral AIMentions 8Arcee AIMentions 7VercelMentions 5AWSMentions 4CloudflareMentions 3Hugging FaceMentions 2Black Forest LabsMentions 2Google Cloud
NameMentions
Mistral AI11
Arcee AI8
Vercel7
AWS5
Cloudflare4
Hugging Face3
Black Forest Labs2
Google Cloud2

Releases

28 releases since Feb 19, 2026
DateOct 30, 2026Cortex Training (Preview)SnowflakeDateOct 29, 2026Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by DefendersMistral AIDateOct 21, 2026Amazon SageMaker AI now supports custom sequence lengths for serverless model customization jobsAWSDateOct 19, 2026Workers AI - Introducing Clairic: an extraction model for typed values, now on Workers AICloudflareDateOct 19, 2026MiniMax M3.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway for freeVercelDateOct 16, 2026Reflection AI's Beam now available on AI Gateway for freeVercelDateOct 16, 2026Beam model by Reflection is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS TrainiumAWSDateOct 15, 2026GLM-5.3 now available in AIP through Amazon BedrockPalantir
Name
Cortex Training (Preview)Snowflake · Oct 30, 2026 10 days ago
Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by DefendersMistral AI · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports custom sequence lengths for serverless model customization jobsAWS · Oct 21, 2026 2 weeks ago
Workers AI - Introducing Clairic: an extraction model for typed values, now on Workers AICloudflare · Oct 19, 2026 3 weeks ago
MiniMax M3.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway for freeVercel · Oct 19, 2026 3 weeks ago
Reflection AI's Beam now available on AI Gateway for freeVercel · Oct 16, 2026 3 weeks ago
Beam model by Reflection is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS TrainiumAWS · Oct 16, 2026 3 weeks ago
GLM-5.3 now available in AIP through Amazon BedrockPalantir · Oct 15, 2026 3 weeks ago

Models

DateGPT OSS 20bOpenAIDategpt-oss-120bOpenAIDateLlama 3.1 8bMetaDateLlama 3.2 1bMetaDateQwen MaxAlibabaDateQwen ImageAlibabaDateDeepSeek V3DeepSeekDateDeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek
Name
GPT OSS 20bOpenAI
gpt-oss-120bOpenAI
Llama 3.1 8bMeta
Llama 3.2 1bMeta
Qwen MaxAlibaba
Qwen ImageAlibaba
DeepSeek V3DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek

Papers

DateAug 17, 2026FreeToken: Efficient Edge-Native MoE Serving with Bandwidth-Adaptive ExecutionUC BerkeleyDateMar 26, 2026RealChart2Code: Advancing Chart-to-Code Generation with Real Data and Multi-Task EvaluationAlibaba (Qwen)DateMar 19, 2026Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy DistillationNVIDIADateNov 13, 2025Instella: Fully Open Language Models with Stellar PerformanceAMDDateJul 31, 2024The Llama 3 Herd of ModelsMetaDateJun 17, 2024Nemotron-4 340B Technical ReportNVIDIADateMay 23, 2024Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual ProgressCohereDateFeb 27, 2023LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language ModelsMeta
Name
FreeToken: Efficient Edge-Native MoE Serving with Bandwidth-Adaptive ExecutionUC Berkeley · Aug 17, 2026 2 months ago
RealChart2Code: Advancing Chart-to-Code Generation with Real Data and Multi-Task EvaluationAlibaba (Qwen) · Mar 26, 2026 7 months ago
Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy DistillationNVIDIA · Mar 19, 2026 7 months ago
Instella: Fully Open Language Models with Stellar PerformanceAMD · Nov 13, 2025 12 months ago
The Llama 3 Herd of ModelsMeta · Jul 31, 2024 2 years ago
Nemotron-4 340B Technical ReportNVIDIA · Jun 17, 2024 2 years ago
Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual ProgressCohere · May 23, 2024 2 years ago
LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language ModelsMeta · Feb 27, 2023 3 years ago

GitHub projects

3,003 repositories
Stars 20,506Jun 23, 2025openai/gpt-ossgpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are two open-weight language models by OpenAIStars 7,240Feb 7, 2025Zyphra/ZonosZonos-v0.1 is a leading open-weight text-to-speech model trained on more than 200k hours of varied multilingual speech, delivering expressivStars 5,824Feb 20, 2024google-deepmind/gemmaGemma open-weight LLM library, from Google DeepMindStars 3,486Apr 21, 2026AtomicBot-ai/atomic-agentAtomic Agent is a local-first AI agent. Runs open-weight models on your own machine via llama.cpp.Stars 3,186Jun 14, 2025MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model.Stars 1,903Mar 31, 2026AtomicBot-ai/Atomic-ChatLocal AI app and inference engine for agents. Run open-weight LLMs locally — private, 100% offline on your computer. Join our Discord: https
NameStars
openai/gpt-ossgpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are two open-weight language models by OpenAI · Jun 23, 2025 1 year ago20,506
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 1 year ago7,240
google-deepmind/gemmaGemma open-weight LLM library, from Google DeepMind · Feb 20, 2024 2 years ago5,824
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 6 months ago3,486
MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. · Jun 14, 2025 1 year ago3,186
AtomicBot-ai/Atomic-ChatLocal AI app and inference engine for agents. Run open-weight LLMs locally — private, 100% offline on your computer. Join our Discord: https · Mar 31, 2026 7 months ago1,903

Funding

13 rounds
Amount $7,400MJun 16, 2026DeepSeekUndisclosedAmount $2,000MOct 9, 2025ReflectionUndisclosedAmount $1,505MJul 15, 2026Fireworks AISeries DAmount $1,500MOct 19, 2026TenstorrentSeries EAmount $830MMar 30, 2026Mistral AIDebtAmount $640MJun 11, 2024Mistral AISeries BAmount $150MSep 16, 2026Arcee AISeries BAmount $65MJul 9, 2026OllamaSeries B
NameAmount
DeepSeekUndisclosed · Jun 16, 2026 4 months ago$7,400M
ReflectionUndisclosed · Oct 9, 2025 1 year ago$2,000M
Fireworks AISeries D · Jul 15, 2026 3 months ago$1,505M
TenstorrentSeries E · Oct 19, 2026 3 weeks ago$1,500M
Mistral AIDebt · Mar 30, 2026 7 months ago$830M
Mistral AISeries B · Jun 11, 2024 2 years ago$640M
Arcee AISeries B · Sep 16, 2026 7 weeks ago$150M
OllamaSeries B · Jul 9, 2026 4 months ago$65M

Partnerships

DateNov 13, 2025Hugging Face and Google Cloud: a deeper open model partnershipDateAug 5, 2025Cloudflare and OpenAI: gpt-oss models on Workers AIDateMay 19, 2025Microsoft and Hugging Face: open models in Azure AI Foundry
Name
Hugging Face and Google Cloud: a deeper open model partnershipNov 13, 2025 12 months ago
Cloudflare and OpenAI: gpt-oss models on Workers AIAug 5, 2025 1 year ago
Microsoft and Hugging Face: open models in Azure AI FoundryMay 19, 2025 1 year ago

Related movements

PeakLocal AIRunning language and image models on your own laptop, phone or server instead of a cloud API.RisingSmall language modelsCompact models, a few billion parameters or less, trained to be good enough and cheap to run anywhere.PeakMixture of expertsModels split into many expert blocks with only a few active per token, so they grow in size without growing in cost.
MovementStage
Local AIRunning language and image models on your own laptop, phone or server instead of a cloud API.Peak
Small language modelsCompact models, a few billion parameters or less, trained to be good enough and cheap to run anywhere.Rising
Mixture of expertsModels split into many expert blocks with only a few active per token, so they grow in size without growing in cost.Peak

History

ChangeSep 24, 2026Tracking started: emerged February 2023, rising, 4 other names recorded
DateWhat changed
Sep 24, 2026Tracking started: emerged February 2023, rising, 4 other names recorded

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