Models

Research models with a short summary of each: architectures, baselines and checkpoints.

Model18 Oct 2026

Mistral 7B: an efficient open 7B language model

A 7-billion-parameter base language model from Mistral AI that showed a small, well-trained model can compete with much larger ones. It is a popular starting point for fine-tuning. OrganizationMistral…

NLPLLMEfficiency
Model18 Oct 2026

OLMo 2 7B: a fully open language model from Ai2

OLMo 2 publishes far more than weights: training code, intermediate checkpoints and the pretraining data mixes are open too. That makes it a strong choice for research into how language models learn. OrganizationAllen…

NLPLLMOpen Source
Model17 Oct 2026

Phi-3-mini: a small language model for edge devices

A compact model from Microsoft for settings where memory, compute or latency are tight. It reasons and does maths well for its size. OrganizationMicrosoftReleased2024Parameters~3.8BLicenseMIT Trained on filtered web and…

NLPLLMEfficiency
Model17 Oct 2026

Segment Anything (SAM): promptable image segmentation

Give SAM a point or a box on an image and it returns a mask for that object, or let it mask everything automatically. It handles new image domains well without retraining. OrganizationMeta AI…

Vision
Model17 Oct 2026

DINOv2: self-supervised visual features

A family of vision transformer backbones trained without labels. Their features are good enough that a simple linear head often works for classification, depth or segmentation, with no fine-tuning. OrganizationMeta AI…

VisionNLP
Model17 Oct 2026

Whisper: multilingual speech recognition

An encoder-decoder speech model that transcribes many languages, translates speech into English and detects the spoken language, all from one network. OrganizationOpenAIReleased2022Sizestiny (39M) to large (1.55B)…

SpeechNLP
Model17 Oct 2026

BGE-M3: multilingual embeddings for retrieval and RAG

One embedding model that does three kinds of retrieval: dense vectors, sparse lexical weights and multi-vector (ColBERT-style) matching. That makes it a good fit for hybrid search and RAG pipelines…

NLP