Open models
Open-weight AI models you can download and run yourself, each explained in plain English: what it is good for, what hardware it needs, what its licence allows and how to start. Every one passed the same strict review as the repos. 16 models.
Text & code 3
Language and coding models you can download and run yourself.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
A 671B open reasoning model that thinks step by step, plus smaller distilled versions.
openai/gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI's open-weight 120B reasoning model for chat, tool use and agents, Apache 2.0
openai/gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI's open-weight 21B model for local use, reasoning and tool-calling tasks
Vision & language 5
Models that read images and text together: screenshots, charts, documents, photos.
google/gemma-4-31B-it
Google DeepMind's 31B open model that reads text and images, reasons, writes code, and calls tools.
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
A 35B open-weight model with a vision encoder, built mainly for coding and agent-style tasks.
Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B
A 27B open-weight model from Qwen that reads text and images, built mainly for coding work.
microsoft/Florence-2-large
A small vision model that captions, detects objects and reads text from images using prompts.
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
A 7B model that reads images, charts, documents and video, and answers in text.
Image generation 1
Text-to-image models you can run on your own machine.
Speech 7
Text-to-speech voices and speech-to-text transcription.
Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice
A 1.7B text-to-speech model with 9 preset voices and style control, in 10 languages.
microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
A small open model that reads text, images and speech, and answers in text.
nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
A 600M-parameter English speech-to-text model with punctuation, capitals and word timestamps.
Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B
An open speech-to-text model that transcribes 52 languages and dialects, with optional timestamps.
CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026
A 2B-parameter open model that turns speech in 14 languages into written text.
mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602
Open speech-to-text model that transcribes 13 languages live, with under 500ms delay
openai/whisper-small
OpenAI's 244M-parameter model that turns speech into text and translates it into English.