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Artifacts Log: Monthly recaps of open models

Latest open artifacts (#19): Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, MiniMax 2.5 — Chinese labs' latest push of the frontier
Welcome to the year of the horse!
 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert
Latest open artifacts (#18): Arcee's 400B MoE, LiquidAI's underrated 1B model, new Kimi, and anticipation of a busy month
Tons of useful "niche" models and anticipation of big releases coming soon.
 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert
Latest open artifacts (#17): NVIDIA, Arcee, Minimax, DeepSeek, Z.ai and others close an eventful year on a high note
Ending the year with a bang.
 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert
Latest open artifacts (#16): Who's building models in the U.S., China's model release playbook, and a resurgence of truly open models
A month with SOTA releases with (truly) open model releases left and right.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
Latest open artifacts (#15): It’s Qwen's world and we get to live in it, on CAISI's report, & GPT-OSS update
After a quiet month, Qwen is back in full force.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
Latest open artifacts (#14): NVIDIA's rise, "Swiss & UAE DeepSeek," and a resurgence of open data
While Qwen takes some rest, others continue to fuel the open model space.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
Latest open artifacts (#13): The abundance era of open models
Mostly thanks to Qwen, but now we're spoiled for choice and winds are shifting.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
Latest open artifacts (#12): Chinese models continue to dominate throughout the summer 🦦
Artifacts Log 12.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
Latest open artifacts (#11): Visualizing China's open models market share, Arcee's models, and VLAs for robotics
Artifacts Log 11.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
Latest open artifacts (#10): New DeepSeek R1 0528!, more permissive licenses, everything as a reasoner, and from artifacts to agents
Artifacts Log 10.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
The latest open artifacts (#9): RLHF book draft, where the open reasoning race is going, and unsung heroes of open LM work
Artifacts Log 9.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
The latest open artifacts (#8): The return of ~30B models, side effects of OpenAI's proposed DeepSeek ban, and yet another reasoning roundup
Artifacts Log 8. Expect this pace to continue until mid summer.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
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