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Gemma 4 is Google DeepMind's most capable open model family: four variants from 2B to 31B, Apache 2.0 license, multimodal across text/image/video/audio, and the 31B Dense ranking #3 on Chatbot Arena against all open-weight models globally.
Google's Gemma 4 family - four models, full Apache 2.0 licensing, and benchmark scores that challenge models 10x their size - is the most consequential open-weight release of 2026 so far.
Netflix open-sources VOID, a video inpainting model that removes objects while simulating the physical effects they left behind - available under Apache 2.0 with a HuggingFace demo.
Google releases Gemma 4 with a 26B MoE, 31B Dense, and two edge variants under Apache 2.0 - claiming the highest intelligence-per-parameter of any open model.
Mistral AI's unified MoE model - 119B total parameters, 6B active per token, 128 experts, 256K context, configurable reasoning, Apache 2.0 license.
Mistral AI releases Small 4 - a 119B MoE with only 6B active parameters, 256K context, configurable reasoning, and Apache 2.0 license. Plus a new NVIDIA partnership to co-develop frontier open models.
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Black Forest Labs' fastest open-source image generation model - 4B parameters, Apache 2.0 license, sub-second generation on consumer GPUs with 13GB VRAM.
IBM's new 1B-parameter speech model claims the top spot on the Open ASR Leaderboard while running on consumer hardware, beating Whisper Large V3 by 25% on word error rate.
Community fine-tune that distills Claude Opus 4.6 reasoning into Qwen3.5-27B via LoRA. 28B parameters, Apache 2.0, no published benchmarks.
Alibaba completes the Qwen 3.5 lineup with four small models - 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B - all natively multimodal, 262K context, Apache 2.0. The 9B outperforms last-gen Qwen3-30B and beats GPT-5-Nano on vision benchmarks.
Qwen3.5-0.8B is the smallest natively multimodal model in the Qwen 3.5 family - 0.8B parameters handling text, images, and video with 262K context. MathVista 62.2, OCRBench 74.5. Apache 2.0.
Qwen3.5-2B is a 2B dense multimodal model with 262K context, thinking mode, and native vision including video understanding. OCRBench 84.5, VideoMME 75.6. Apache 2.0 licensed.
