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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openweights/opus-level-open-70b : Best Open AI Models; 2 hosted files; license Apache-2.0; 12,345 upstream downloadsvectorjack/captain-embedding-v2 : Best Open AI Models; 1 hosted file; license Apache-2.0; 6,334 upstream downloadssentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsBAAI/bge-m3 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloadsBAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsBAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloadsdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloadsdistilbert/distilbert-base-uncased : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsAlibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsAlibaba-NLP/gte-reranker-modernbert-base : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsOpenGVLab/InternVL3-1B : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsanswerdotai/ModernBERT-base : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsOpen interactive answer pack
Best Open AI Models A citation-ready shortlist of high-signal open models ranked by license clarity, popularity, metadata quality, trust, and mirror readiness.
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.
Answer pack JSON Citation pack Ranking page
openweights/opus-level-open-70b : Best Open AI Models; 2 hosted files; license Apache-2.0; 12,345 upstream downloadsvectorjack/captain-embedding-v2 : Best Open AI Models; 1 hosted file; license Apache-2.0; 6,334 upstream downloadssentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsBAAI/bge-m3 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloadsBAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsBAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloadsdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license mit; 500 upstream downloadsdistilbert/distilbert-base-uncased : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsAlibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsAlibaba-NLP/gte-reranker-modernbert-base : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsOpenGVLab/InternVL3-1B : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsanswerdotai/ModernBERT-base : Best Open AI Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 500 upstream downloadsOpen interactive answer pack