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29 launches · 1 Oct 2026 - 31 Oct 2026
- 1ClefAI model
Cloudflare’s open-weight decision model, released 1 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: classifies text or images into typed answers with probabilities so agents can act without a human check. 64K context, on Workers AI.
TL score - 2Clef-flashAI model
The latency-optimised member of Cloudflare’s Clef decision-model family, released 1 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: structured, probability-scored classification of text or images for agents, built on a 9B backbone.
TL score - 3Strands Decider 2BAI model
An open-source 2B “decision model” from AWS’s Strands Agents project, released 1 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: it picks between given options or returns a score with a reliability figure, fast enough for a local CPU.
TL score - 4MAI-Transcribe-2-StreamingAI model
Microsoft AI’s real-time speech-to-text model, released 1 October 2026: streaming transcripts in 60 languages with continuous language detection and first partial results in just over 100 ms, at $0.54 per audio hour.
TL score - 5MAI-Voice-2.1AI model
Microsoft AI’s multilingual text-to-speech model, released 1 October 2026: 23 languages and 26 locales, one voice across all of them with a native accent, and voice cloning from seconds of audio, at $22 per million characters.
TL score - 6MAI-Voice-2.1-FlashAI model
The high-volume variant of Microsoft AI’s MAI-Voice-2.1, released 1 October 2026: the same 23 languages and voice cloning, with 150 ms end-to-end latency for 45 seconds of audio, at $15 per million characters.
TL score - 7FLUX 3 ImageAI model
Black Forest Labs’ image generation and editing model, released 1 October 2026: bounding-box layouts, edits that leave untouched pixels alone, multiple reference images and native 2K and 4K output, via API or commercial weights.
TL score - 8pplx-decider-v1-27bAI model
Perplexity’s open-weight “decision model”, published 1 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: a 27B fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B that classifies and chooses among given options rather than writing free text, for routing and checks in AI systems.
TL score - 9AstaBrief 8BAI model
Ai2’s open-weight 8B model for cited scientific reports, released 2 October 2026: it turns a research question and retrieved literature into a report with citations. Weights and training data published; runs as Fast mode in Asta.
TL score - 10
An open-weight translation model from Bilibili’s Index team, published 2 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: a 35B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters that translates across 150 languages and follows style and terminology instructions.
TL score - 11KolibriAI model
Aleph Alpha’s open-weight English-German mixture-of-experts model, released 3 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: 78B parameters in total with 3B active, and a context of up to 1M tokens, for self-hosting.
TL score - 12Mistral Large 4AI model
Mistral AI’s largest model, a 1-trillion-parameter mixture of experts with 49B active, in public preview on Mistral Studio from 6 October 2026 at $1.36 in and $4.18 out per million tokens; weights promised by month end.
TL score - 13EmbeddingGemma 2AI model
Google’s open multimodal embedding model, released 6 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: 740M parameters on the Gemma 4 architecture, one vector space for text, images, audio and video, 8K context, vectors truncatable from 768 dimensions.
TL score - 14Claude Haiku 5.5AI model
Anthropic’s small, fast model, released 7 October 2026 on its API and the AWS, Google Cloud and Azure platforms: $0.10 in and $0.50 out per million tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, higher above that.
TL score - 15d1-3BAI model
Liquid AI’s open-weight decision model, released 7 October 2026: it takes text and images and returns calibrated yes/no, choice or score answers in one pass instead of writing text.
TL score - 16d1-omni-600MAI model
Liquid AI’s small open-weight decision model, released 7 October 2026: 587M parameters taking text with images or speech clips and returning decisions rather than text.
TL score - 17Falcon ASRAI model
A 1.6B speech recognition model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, announced 7 October 2026, covering Arabic with a focus on the Emirati dialect, plus English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
TL score - 18Mellum2.1AI model
JetBrains’ open 12B mixture-of-experts coding model, released around 8 October 2026 under Apache 2.0, with 2.5B parameters active per token and multi-token prediction for faster serving.
TL score - 19Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime ArabicAI model
Mistral AI's streaming speech-to-text model for Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic, with open Apache 2.0 weights; about 4.4B parameters, built for live transcription with a configurable delay.
TL score - 20Microsoft-Decision-1AI model
Microsoft's hosted decision model, released 9 October 2026: one pass over a prompt and a set of answer options returns a calibrated probability for each, for routing, grading and classification.
TL score - 21Clef-omniAI model
Cloudflare's multimodal decision model, released 9 October 2026 under Apache 2.0: takes text, images, audio and video and returns a score for each allowed answer instead of free text. 30B mixture of experts with 3B active.
TL score - 22Youtu-Parsing-OmniAI model
Tencent Youtu Lab's 5B parsing model, released 9 October 2026: turns documents, charts, audio and video into one structured JSON output. Open weights under a custom licence that excludes use within the European Union.
TL score - 23Muse WonderAI model
Meta's Muse Wonder, announced 12 October 2026 in preview: a proprietary reasoning model for software engineering and long-running agent work, with a 1,048,576-token context window and text, image, video, audio and PDF input.
TL score - 24LFM2.5-24B-A2BAI model
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B, released 13 October 2026: an open-weights text reasoning model with 24B parameters, about 2.45B active per token, and a 131,072-token context window, aimed at on-device agents.
TL score - 25Granite Switch 4.1AI model
IBM's modular Granite model, released 14 October 2026 in 8B and 30B sizes: one endpoint for chat, scored multiple-choice decisions, safety checks and English speech-to-text, under Apache 2.0.
TL score - 26TimestralAI model
Mistral's first time-series forecasting models, released 15 October 2026 in four sizes from 5M to 209M parameters: open weights, probabilistic multivariate forecasts and CPU inference.
TL score - 27Nemotron 3.5 Super VLAI model
NVIDIA's open-weights vision-language model, released 15 October 2026: 120B parameters with 12B active, a context of up to 1M tokens, and use in reasoning, coding, tools, documents and video.
TL score - 28Muse Spark OpenAI model
Meta's open-weights Muse model, released 15 October 2026: 816B parameters with 42B active, a 1M-token context, text, image, video and audio input, and a licence that is free below a $20M service threshold.
TL score - 29Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4BAI model
NVIDIA's 4B looped language model, released 16 October 2026: one checkpoint whose shared layers can run more times for harder tasks, a 256K context and an OpenMDW licence for commercial use.
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