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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
Grok 4.5 PH 172 2026-07-27
Tiny Diffusion HN 172 2025-11-10
Mercury Edit 2 PH 171 2026-04-04
Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it HN 170 2026-07-30
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PH 168 2026-05-16
YANchor GITHUB 155 2026-10-07
tev1 GITHUB 154 2026-09-23
LongCat-2.0 PH 154 2026-07-07
Naive-N0.5-Flash GITHUB 142 2026-09-27
decider GITHUB 130 2026-09-16
StartLux-Decision GITHUB 130 2026-09-29
LoopVL GITHUB 102 2026-10-01
reflex GITHUB 101 2026-09-17
CUA-S1 HN 93 2026-09-19
Grok 4.7 PH 93 2026-09-22
Xing4.0-29B-A4B GITHUB 81 2026-09-17
flm GITHUB 71 2026-09-15
Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1 GITHUB 60 2026-10-08
HC-DLM GITHUB 53 2026-09-29
openthai-systemone GITHUB 49 2026-09-20
giga-embeddings-10B-A1.8B_hybrid GITHUB 41 2026-09-25
KaLM-Jev GITHUB 35 2026-09-21
Hemmingway-1 GITHUB 34 2026-09-20
Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, -58.3% thinking, x1.95 speed, accuracy of xhigh HN 30 2026-09-16
DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning HN 30 2026-08-09
SHADOW-50M-Instruct GITHUB 29 2026-09-15
The Analog I HN 29 2026-01-16
gutsy GITHUB 28 2026-10-01
Confucius4-T3PO GITHUB 27 2026-09-14
GLM-5.3-DWM32-A2.2-Recipe GITHUB 26 2026-10-10
Mica-v0.1-4B GITHUB 26 2026-09-25
eikos GITHUB 25 2026-09-23
I shrank DeepSeek V4 Flash to 57GB and it wrote a compiler on my Mac HN 21 2026-08-16
Korean-llm-v4 GITHUB 21 2026-09-09
openjev GITHUB 19 2026-09-16
qwen38-flashnext-exl3 GITHUB 18 2026-09-17
FRIDA-Decisions GITHUB 18 2026-10-02
Zero-power photonic language model–code HN 18 2025-11-29
qwen38-exl3-dflash2 GITHUB 18 2026-09-15
folia-sonnet GITHUB 17 2026-10-09
I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris HN 15 2026-07-05
PewDiePie-Ajax-Uncensored-AI GITHUB 14 2026-10-03
opendecider GITHUB 13 2026-09-27
Bonsai 1.7B ternary model at 442T/s on M4 Max HN 13 2026-05-04
Qwen3.8-27B-AEON-ULTIMATE-UNCENSORED GITHUB 12 2026-09-15
Qev GITHUB 11 2026-09-29
Pingu Unchained an Unrestricted LLM for High-Risk AI Security Research HN 11 2025-11-07
"Be horse." HN 10 2026-04-30
Trained an LLM to predict "What will Trump do?" HN 10 2026-02-20
The Silent Filter, The Delegation of Synthesis and Linguistic Drift HN 10 2026-02-27