Best Open AI Models
A linked shortlist of high-signal open models ranked by license clarity, popularity, metadata quality, trust, and hosted-file metadata. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/best-open-models.
Best Open AI Models is a citation-ready Hugging Bay answer pack backed by live catalog rows. Representative rows: Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B, FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large, openai/gpt-oss-20b, Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct, E-MIMIC/inclusively-reformulation-it5. Use each canonical citation URL plus metadata/card endpoints for current license, trust, hosting, and download state. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/best-open-models.
Question: What are the best open AI models to start with?
A linked shortlist of high-signal open models ranked by license clarity, popularity, metadata quality, trust, and hosted-file metadata.
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- Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B: Model from Hugging Face for feature extraction: Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · sentence transformers
- FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large: Model from Hugging Face for fill mask: FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large · transformers
- openai/gpt-oss-20b: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: openai/gpt-oss-20b · transformers
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · transformers
- E-MIMIC/inclusively-reformulation-it5: Model from Hugging Face for llm: E-MIMIC/inclusively-reformulation-it5 · transformers
- handy-computer/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-gguf: Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: handy-computer/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-gguf · transcribe.cpp
- handy-computer/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b-gguf: Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: handy-computer/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b-gguf · transcribe.cpp
- LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF · gguf
- pysentimiento/robertuito-sentiment-analysis: Model from Hugging Face for text classification: pysentimiento/robertuito-sentiment-analysis · pysentimiento
- legraphista/glm-4-9b-chat-IMat-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: legraphista/glm-4-9b-chat-IMat-GGUF · gguf
- rippertnt/HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5B-Q4_K_M-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: rippertnt/HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5B-Q4_K_M-GGUF · unknown
- livekit/turn-detector: Model from Hugging Face for text classification: livekit/turn-detector · transformers
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Updated 2026-09-23 from the live catalog.