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Top 10 open-weight models in October 2026, ranked

Xiaomi, Z.ai, Moonshot, Alibaba and DeepSeek now publish weights within a few points of the closed frontier. Ten models, ranked on Artificial Analysis and Arena scores, with the licence clause, parameter count and GPU budget that decide whether a team can actually run each one.

Published Oct 5, 202620 min read

Surveys

The state of open-weight licensing, mapped

Most flagship open-weight releases of the past year ship under Apache 2.0 or MIT. The exceptions carry user caps, revenue gates, prohibited-use policies and remote kill switches. This survey reads the licence texts, not the launch posts, and maps what each one actually permits.

Published Sep 8, 202613 min read