Model directory
Each entry below is a family of AI models you can download for free and run on your own computer. The label on each card tells you who made it, how big it is, what licence it comes under, and what it is good at. New to all this? The glossary defines every term used here, or try the picker to find one that fits your machine.
Meta AI · United States
Mixture-of-experts architecture. Scout pushes context to 10M tokens, Maverick targets frontier-tier reasoning. Custom license restricts use above 700M MAU and forbids training competitors.
Google DeepMind · United States
Tuned for small-footprint deployment. Strong on consumer GPUs and Apple Silicon. The license is permissive for most commercial use but is not OSI-approved.
Microsoft Research · United States
Small-model series with strong reasoning-per-parameter ratios. MIT licensed, ideal for embedded and on-device scenarios.
Alibaba (Qwen team) · China
The most permissive frontier-class family for smaller sizes. Strong on Asian languages, competitive on English code and reasoning benchmarks.
DeepSeek AI · China
Topped open-source leaderboards on SWE-Bench and GPQA Diamond in early 2026. The MIT-licensed core variant is the most permissive of the top-tier open weights.
Moonshot AI · China
Leads several agentic-coding benchmarks in early 2026. Long-context handling rivals Llama 4 Scout, with stronger agent traces.
Zhipu AI · China
Quiet challenger that closes in on DeepSeek and Kimi on agentic benchmarks. Permissive enough for most commercial settings, but read the license.
01.AI · China
Steady, well-documented series with bilingual strength and reasonable license terms. Less flashy than Qwen or DeepSeek but a solid choice for many production cases.
Mistral AI · France (EU)
Released April 2026. The most credible non-Chinese, non-American option at frontier level. Mistral remains the leading European LLM lab by capability.
EuroLLM Consortium · European Union
Fully open: weights, data pipeline, and training logs. Trained on the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer in Barcelona. Covers all 24 EU official languages plus 11 more. Not at frontier level on English benchmarks, but unique in its transparency.
Allen Institute for AI · United States (non-profit)
The most truly open model in the catalog: weights, data, training code, and intermediate checkpoints are all public. Capability is mid-tier, transparency is unmatched.
Cohere · Canada
Open weights but non-commercial. Strong on retrieval-augmented generation and tool calling. A useful baseline for RAG work even if not deployable as-is in production.
Snapshot · May 15, 2026
Live snapshot from the Hugging Face Hub, ranked by a weighted mix of downloads, likes and recency. Different shape from the curated directory above: these are the releases the community is interacting with this week, not the editor's picks. Refreshes weekly.
deepseek-ai
MIT
moonshotai
Custom license
deepseek-ai
MIT
zai-org
MIT
MiniMaxAI
Custom license
zai-org
MIT
deepseek-ai
MIT
MiniMaxAI
Custom license
meta-llama · 8B
Llama 3.1 Community License
openai-community
MIT
Nanbeige · 3B
Apache 2.0
openai · 20B
Apache 2.0
