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large language models

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

horizontal · 143 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

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
kev GITHUB 2052 2026-09-17
jeff GITHUB 1314 2026-09-28
I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work HN 915 2026-04-06
Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model HN 776 2026-05-12
Claude Opus 4.7 PH 572 2026-04-17
Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots HN 537 2026-08-10
Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete HN 534 2026-01-21
OrcaBonsai-27B-Uncensored GITHUB 526 2026-09-18
GPT-5.5 by OpenAI PH 476 2026-04-26
Kimi K3 PH 447 2026-07-17
GPT-6 Astra PH 440 2026-09-04
Google Gemma 4 PH 439 2026-04-03
1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs HN 430 2026-03-31
Claude Opus 5 PH 430 2026-07-27
DeepSeek-V4 PH 393 2026-04-24
Kimi K2.7 Code PH 349 2026-06-13
Kimi K2.6 PH 341 2026-04-21
GPT-5.6 PH 337 2026-07-10
GPT-6 Sol & Luna PH 335 2026-09-27
Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates HN 328 2026-02-24
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 PH 321 2026-08-01
Google Gemma 4 12B PH 309 2026-06-04
agent-jev GITHUB 303 2026-09-21
Grok 4.6 PH 302 2026-08-20
GLM-5-Turbo PH 289 2026-03-16
Gemini 4 Argon PH 289 2026-10-04
Claude Opus 5.5 PH 287 2026-09-23
Claude Haiku 5.5 PH 281 2026-10-08
Mini-AGI HN 277 2026-09-21
Qwen3.8-Max PH 276 2026-08-03
openJev-verdict-2.0 GITHUB 276 2026-09-19
GPT‑5.4 mini and nano PH 267 2026-03-18
GLM-5.3 PH 253 2026-08-15
Gemini 3.7 Flash PH 240 2026-08-14
Google Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber PH 237 2026-09-04
Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash HN 236 2026-09-18
Claude Sonnet 5.5 PH 223 2026-09-29
Hy4 preview PH 215 2026-08-29
GLM-5V-Turbo PH 214 2026-04-02
Tiny Aya PH 211 2026-04-05
Mellum by JetBrains PH 196 2026-06-20
GPT‑5.5 Instant PH 196 2026-05-07
Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong HN 191 2026-07-22
Cognition's SWE-2 PH 189 2026-09-13
Mistral Large 4 PH 183 2026-10-07
Step 3.7 Flash PH 183 2026-05-30
Gemini 3.6 Flash Family PH 182 2026-07-22
Inkling PH 181 2026-07-20
Nemotron 3 Ultra by NVIDIA PH 179 2026-06-05
Microsoft-Decision-1 PH 174 2026-10-10