Software and IT services, ranked and explained

Liquid AI's open-weight 1.7-billion-parameter text model, released 27 October 2026 as the base of the LFM3 family, with a 256K context, about 1 GB at 4-bit, and fine-tuning on a single GPU.

Cohere's speed-optimised reranking model, released 21 October 2026 at $0.02 per million tokens, for search and retrieval pipelines where latency and cost matter more than the last points of accuracy.

Cohere's higher-accuracy reranking model for search and retrieval, released 21 October 2026 at $0.05 per million tokens, with a Context Focus option that returns only the relevant passages of each document.

Free MIT-licensed pre-commit hook and CLI that reads the values in your untracked .env files and fails when any of them is staged, tracked or anywhere in git history, including URL, JSON and base64 forms.

OpenAI's fast GPT-6.1 model for visual reasoning, computer use and writing, released 26 October 2026 at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens, with a 1.05M-token context and 128K output.

Open-source groupware from Vienna for email, calendars, contacts, chat and files, run on your own servers and compatible with Outlook and Exchange ActiveSync.