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Frontier zone · Model releases

The frontier of open-weight model releases

Open-weight model releases tracked by RunLocalAI — recent additions, rising families, distill chains, multimodal and reasoning waves. Each card links into the catalog with authority badges (L1.25 enriched · benchmark-backed · verdict) so you can scan editorial coverage at a glance.

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Filtered results (22)

Models matching your filters. Clear filters by clicking “Any” on each row above, or remove individual filters via the URL.

Hunyuan 3.0 (Hy3)

Tencent · 2026-07-06
295B/21B-Afrontier

Apache-licensed agent/tool-calling backbone for teams with 8x datacenter GPUs

Verdict

LongCat-2.0

Meituan · 2026-07-05
1600B/48B-Afrontier

MIT-licensed near-frontier agentic coding for multi-node datacenter deployments

Verdict

GLM-5.2

Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · 2026-06-16
753Bfrontier

Open-weight 1M-context MoE for long-horizon agentic coding

Verdict

Kimi K2.7-Code

Moonshot AI · 2026-06-12
1000Bfrontier

Open-weight 1T MoE for long-horizon software engineering

Verdict

Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B)

NVIDIA · 2026-06-04
550Bfrontier

Open-weight frontier-scale long-context reasoning for complex agentic workflows

Verdict

MiniMax-M3

MiniMax · 2026-06-02
428Bfrontier

Open-weight 1M-context multimodal MoE for agentic coding + video understanding

VerdictMultimodal

Ring-2.6-1T

InclusionAI / Ant Group · 2026-05-14
1000B/32B-Afrontier

frontier reasoning at MoE serving cost

Verdict

Qwen 3.5 235B-A17B (MoE)

Alibaba · 2026-05-01
397B/17B-Afrontier

frontier-tier reasoning + multilingual serving on multi-machine clusters

L1.25 enrichedVerdict

Mistral Medium 3.5 (675B MoE)

Mistral AI · 2026-04-29
675B/41B-Afrontier

frontier MoE — Mistral's response to the open MoE wave

Verdict

DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)

DeepSeek · 2026-04-24
1600B/49B-Afrontier

frontier-tier coding + reasoning serving — currently the open-weight ceiling

L1.25 enrichedVerdict

Llama 4 Maverick

Meta · 2026-04-05
400Bfrontier

frontier-tier multimodal serving on multi-machine clusters

L1.25 enrichedVerdictMultimodal

DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek AI · 2026-03-15
745B/38B-Afrontier

frontier-tier reasoning on multi-machine clusters

Verdict

Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI · 2026-03-10
1000Bfrontier

Moonshot frontier MoE — long-context specialist

Verdict

Llama 4 405B

Meta · 2026-02-10
405Bfrontier

frontier-tier serving on cluster hardware

Verdict

GLM-5

Zhipu AI (Z.AI) · 2026-02-05
200Bfrontier

Zhipu GLM-5 frontier MoE

Verdict

Step-3

StepFun · 2025-09-30
1000B/38B-Afrontier

frontier-research workloads

Verdict

Qwen 3 235B-A22B

Alibaba · 2025-04-29
235Bfrontier

Qwen 3 MoE flagship — pre-3.5 baseline

Verdict

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B

NVIDIA · 2025-04-08
253Bfrontier

frontier-tier Nemotron-Llama

Verdict

DeepSeek R1 (671B reasoning)

DeepSeek · 2025-01-20
671Bfrontier

frontier-tier reasoning research; cluster-only deployment

L1.25 enrichedVerdict

DeepSeek V3 (671B MoE)

DeepSeek · 2024-12-26
671Bfrontier

frontier-tier MoE serving — pre-V4 baseline

Verdict

Hunyuan Large 389B MoE

Tencent · 2024-11-05
389B/52B-Afrontier

frontier-tier serving with Tencent license tolerance

Verdict

Jamba 1.5 Large

AI21 Labs · 2024-08-22
398B/94B-Afrontier

frontier-tier long-context

Verdict

Going deeper

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  • Benchmarks — measured tokens-per-second + topology fields across hardware/model/runtime triples.