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Open-Source & Open-Weight AI Models: Compare and Run Locally

Compare 15 AI model families by license, size and openness. Inspect documented local candidates, try a sourced setup guide, and download a dated comparison.

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Qwen3.8: license, size and what is open

A downloadable 27B vision-language member of the Qwen3.8 generation, selected here because its Apache-2.0 terms are materially simpler than the custom license on the largest Qwen3.8 checkpoint.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: license, size and what is open

A downloadable DeepSeek multimodal Flash model, with sparse activation that differs between prompt processing and generation.

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Mistral Small 4: license, size and what is open

A hybrid sparse model that combines instruction following, reasoning, visual understanding, and coding modes in one downloadable checkpoint.

model-family · Source published 2026-04-02

Gemma 4: license, size and what is open

Google’s Gemma 4 generation spans edge and workstation sizes; this atlas record uses the 26B mixture-of-experts checkpoint as its reference point.

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gpt-oss: license, size and what is open

Two open-weight text reasoning models with adjustable reasoning effort, structured output, and tool-use support.

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Llama 4: license, size and what is open

Meta’s first natively multimodal Llama generation and first Llama mixture-of-experts release.

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Olmo 3: license, size and what is open

A fully open model flow spanning base, mid-trained, long-context, instruction, reasoning, and RL-zero checkpoints.

model-family · Source published 2026-04-27

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: license, size and what is open

A compact sparse reasoning model that accepts video, audio, images, and text while activating about three billion parameters per token.

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SmolLM3: license, size and what is open

A compact multilingual reasoning model whose engineering blueprint, mixtures, training frameworks, and alignment process are published.

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Molmo 2: license, size and what is open

A family of open vision-language models for images, multiple images, and video, with explicit spatial outputs such as pointing and object tracking.

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Kimi K2.5: license, size and what is open

A trillion-parameter visual agentic model with a comparatively small active footprint and public weights and code.

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GLM-5.3 Flash: license, size and what is open

A natively multimodal sparse GLM checkpoint released under MIT terms for long-context agent and coding work.

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Evo 2: license, size and what is open

A biological foundation model trained across genomes for sequence understanding and design, released with code, weights, and OpenGenome2 data.

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Isaac GR00T: license, size and what is open

An open vision-language-action model for generalized humanoid skills, accompanied by reference code, data tooling, and a robotics development stack.

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Voxtral Realtime: license, size and what is open

A compact streaming speech-recognition model designed for low-latency transcription through a realtime API.

discovery · Source published 2024-08-14

A way back to conversation.

A man with ALS used an experimental brain–computer interface to turn attempted speech into conversation.

discovery · Source published 2021-07-15

Seeing the shape of life.

Researchers used AlphaFold to predict protein structures with accuracy competitive with experimental structures on many CASP14 targets. Bright's interactive p53 view uses a separate, later AlphaFold DB prediction: human p53 AF-P04637-F1 model v6, created on 2025-08-01.

discovery · Source published 2024-03-20

More time before the flood.

Researchers demonstrated useful river-flood forecasts in watersheds with no local streamflow gauges.

discovery · Source published 2023-05-25

A new lead against resistant bacteria.

Scientists identified abaucin, a compound active against Acinetobacter baumannii, with help from deep learning.