Best Open AI Models

A citation-ready shortlist of high-signal open models ranked by license clarity, popularity, metadata quality, trust, and mirror readiness.

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Question: What are the best open AI models to start with?

Best Open AI Models is a citation-ready Hugging Bay answer pack backed by live catalog rows. Representative rows: openweights/opus-level-open-70b, vectorjack/captain-embedding-v2, sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2, BAAI/bge-m3, BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3. Use each canonical citation URL plus metadata/card endpoints for current license, trust, hosting, and download state.

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  1. openweights/opus-level-open-70b: Best Open AI Models; 2 hosted files; license Apache-2.0; 12,345 upstream downloads
  2. vectorjack/captain-embedding-v2: Best Open AI Models; 1 hosted file; license Apache-2.0; 6,334 upstream downloads
  3. sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloads
  4. BAAI/bge-m3: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloads
  5. BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloads
  6. BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloads
  7. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloads
  8. distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloads
  9. Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloads
  10. Alibaba-NLP/gte-reranker-modernbert-base: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloads
  11. OpenGVLab/InternVL3-1B: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloads
  12. answerdotai/ModernBERT-base: Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloads

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