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large language models

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Products in this niche provide foundational, specialized, and distilled neural network architectures trained for natural language understanding, coding, and reasoning. They are built for software developers, machine learning researchers, and enterprise engineering teams deploying intelligent applications and autonomous agents. Unlike end-user AI applications or workflow tools, these products focus directly on the underlying model weights, training methods, and core inference engines.

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Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
COLLISION AI PH 1 2026-09-22
Kolibri PH 1 2026-10-07
Agens Volundr 32B Preview PH 1 2026-10-05
Clef PH 1 2026-10-04
Falcon-Emirati PH 1 2026-10-08
SubQ Snap PH 1 2026-10-13
Helax ai PH 1 2026-10-11
Strands Decider 2B PH 1 2026-10-04
Veyra - Decide - legal- general - model PH 1 2026-10-13
LiTiL Open Intelligence Models PH 1 2026-10-01
VIGIL GLM PH 1 2026-09-27
AstaBrief PH 1 2026-10-06
Claude Opus 5.5 PH 2 2026-09-23
Attenta PH 3 2026-09-07
Mercury 2.5 PH 3 2026-09-09
GPT-6 Sol and and Luna PH 4 2026-10-03
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash PH 4 2026-09-10
Distilled 0.6B text-to-SQL model HN 5 2026-01-21
I Built an Customized LLM for Singapore HN 5 2026-02-10
Dante-Qwen-4B HN 5 2025-11-28
Flint HN 6 2026-04-16
Llama 3.2 3B and Keiro Research achieves 85% on SimpleQA HN 6 2026-03-07
keys-DeepSeekV4.1-Flash-TR3-Hybrid-1M-Context-8M-KV-Four-DGX-Sparks-with-abliterated-option GITHUB 6 2026-09-13
Abliterated LLM provider for cyber tasks HN 6 2026-10-05
A 0.3B model that redacts PII in all 24 EU languages offline HN 6 2026-05-13
Project AELLA HN 6 2025-11-11
I finetuned 1.5B Qwen to near GPT-4o level bash generation perf HN 6 2026-10-05
Open-source LLM and dataset for sports forecasting (Pro Golf) HN 7 2026-02-24
Canonn R1 PH 7 2026-10-09
I fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 (0.8B–4B) on a Mac for text-to-SQL HN 7 2026-03-05
Kolibri PH 7 2026-10-05
Linear RNN/Reservoir hybrid generative model, one C file (no deps.) HN 7 2026-04-09
Selora HN 7 2026-06-17
WaveletLM HN 7 2026-04-26
Luna_1M_Ultra GITHUB 7 2026-09-13
DenseK3 GITHUB 8 2026-09-15
Jef GITHUB 8 2026-09-26
Pestle-27B-Ternary HN 9 2026-08-14
Gutsy, a 0.8B Jev-compatible decision model that runs on your CPU HN 9 2026-10-01
Trained an LLM to predict "What will Trump do?" HN 10 2026-02-20
"Be horse." HN 10 2026-04-30
Jev by Typesafe PH 10 2026-09-18
The Silent Filter, The Delegation of Synthesis and Linguistic Drift HN 10 2026-02-27
MicroGPT in 243 Lines HN 10 2026-02-13
sparse-memory-lm GITHUB 10 2026-10-03
nagi GITHUB 10 2026-09-23
Pingu Unchained an Unrestricted LLM for High-Risk AI Security Research HN 11 2025-11-07
Qev GITHUB 11 2026-09-29
Qwen3.8-27B-AEON-ULTIMATE-UNCENSORED GITHUB 12 2026-09-15
Bonsai 1.7B ternary model at 442T/s on M4 Max HN 13 2026-05-04