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New TodayDeepSeek

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Adds Vision and Reasoning

The new MIT-licensed checkpoint folds image understanding and reasoning into DeepSeek's fast, mixture-of-experts Flash line.

Oct 17, 2026
Vision-LanguageText / LLMReasoning
Datacenter
Read the story17.9K downloads
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017)
Context window
1.0M tokens
Size
765.3 GB
Precision
INT8

FLUX.3 Image Klein
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs ships FLUX.3 Image Klein

The latest open image model from the FLUX team handles both text-to-image generation and editing, and arrives ready to run in Diffusers.

Oct 13, 2026
Beam 1.0 501B-A23B
Reflection/ReasoningMulti-GPU server

Reflection releases Beam 1.0, a 501B open MoE

The frontier AI startup's first open-weight model activates just 23B parameters per token while targeting reasoning, code, and tool use.

Oct 7, 2026
Mistral AI/Text / LLMDatacenter

Mistral Large 4 arrives as a trillion-param MoE

The new flagship is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with roughly 49B active parameters per token.

Oct 6, 2026

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NVIDIA/Text / LLMRuns on a laptop

NVIDIA releases compact Dory 1.0 4B text model

The new Nemotron Labs model packs a 4-billion-parameter language model trained on NVIDIA's Nemotron datasets.

Oct 16, 2026
Text / LLM
Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B
IBM/Any-to-Any

IBM's Granite Switch 4.1 Unifies Chat, Logic, Speech

A single endpoint now routes text conversation, decision-making, and speech synthesis across IBM's Apache-licensed Granite line.

Oct 15, 2026
Any-to-AnyText / LLM
Tencent/Text / LLMConsumer GPU

Tencent releases Hy-Memory 30B-A3B under Apache 2.0

A memory-focused mixture-of-experts model activates just 3B of its 30B parameters per token, and ships with a permissive license.

Oct 15, 2026
Text / LLM
Hy-Memory 30B-A3B
inclusionAI/Text / LLMDatacenter

inclusionAI releases Ling-3.1-flash under MIT license

A new hybrid mixture-of-experts text model arrives on Hugging Face with permissive licensing and a focus on fast inference.

Oct 13, 2026
Text / LLM
Ling-3.1-flash
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor releaseRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs ships FLUX.3 Image Klein

The latest open image model from the FLUX team handles both text-to-image generation and editing, and arrives ready to run in Diffusers.

Oct 13, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.3 Image Klein
NVIDIA/Vision-LanguageWorkstation GPU

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Pairs Vision With MoE Efficiency

The 120B-parameter vision-language model activates just 12B per token and ships in NVIDIA's NVFP4 format for leaner inference.

Oct 12, 2026
Vision-LanguageText / LLM
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B

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MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.2-instruct-78b
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Text → Image →
FLUX.3 Image Klein
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageRuns on a laptop

Black Forest Labs ships FLUX.3 Image Klein

The latest open image model from the FLUX team handles both text-to-image generation and editing, and arrives ready to run in Diffusers.

Oct 13, 2026
Code →
Beam 1.0 501B-A23B
Reflection/ReasoningMulti-GPU server

Reflection releases Beam 1.0, a 501B open MoE

The frontier AI startup's first open-weight model activates just 23B parameters per token while targeting reasoning, code, and tool use.

Oct 7, 2026
Text → Video →
Unknown/Text → VideoConsumer GPU

Kandinsky 6.0 Generates Video and Audio Together

Kandinsky Lab's new foundation models produce synchronized sound and motion from a text prompt, in 3B and 29B sizes.

Oct 3, 2026
Vision-Language →
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017)
DeepSeek/Vision-LanguageDatacenter

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Adds Vision and Reasoning

The new MIT-licensed checkpoint folds image understanding and reasoning into DeepSeek's fast, mixture-of-experts Flash line.

Oct 17, 2026
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AnnouncedAug 26, 2026

Qwen Teases 3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B Sparse MoE

Alibaba's next Qwen release pairs a large parameter pool with a tiny active footprint, promising speed without the full compute bill.

Qwen · Alibaba·Text / LLM
AnnouncedSep 9, 2026

DeepSeek Announces V4.1 Flash, a Cheaper Reasoning Model

The new mixture-of-experts model is billed as more capable than V4 Pro while costing less to run, and ships under an MIT license.

DeepSeek·Text / LLM
Announced

Zing-0.5 aims for playable worlds in real time

A 5B-parameter autoregressive world model blends action and text control to generate interactive environments on the fly.

Unknown·Any-to-Any