Launch Type: Open-Source Release

Microsoft introduced Phi-3, a family of small language models aimed at efficient, capable AI on constrained hardware and lower-cost deployments.

Cohere released Command R7B, a compact R-series model focused on speed, efficiency, RAG, tool use, and agentic behavior.

The Qwen team released Qwen3, a new generation of open-weight models with reasoning, coding, math, and general capability improvements.

The Qwen team released Qwen2.5-Coder as an open-source coding model family and renamed CodeQwen to Qwen-Coder.

Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium weights as a smaller open image generation model in the Stable Diffusion 3 ...

Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large and Large Turbo as open model weights, followed by Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium.

Black Forest Labs launched and released the FLUX.1 suite of text-to-image models, including commercial and open-weight variants.

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3, a large mixture-of-experts language model with open weights and a technical report available through GitHub and Hugging ...

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, open reasoning models with distilled variants based on Qwen and Llama models.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1, an Apache 2.0 multimodal and multilingual model with improved text performance and 128K context.