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BetaAI and tech news.Edition of Fri 16 Oct 2026 

Trending models on 15 Oct 2026

The list as it stood that day: the open models people were trying most on Hugging Face, by trending score.

Updated 15 Oct 2026, 16:16 UTCSource: Hugging Face
#ModelTaskLikesDownloadsCreated
01embeddinggemma-2googlefeature-extraction2,362144.3kSep 14
02humanizerjialinyyzztext-generation1,70175.3kSep 11
03Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboQwentext-to-image85715.3kOct 9
04MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3Bopenbmbimage-text-to-text7759,278Oct 7
05JEV-35Bautotrusttext-classification94241.8kOct 11
06Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantizedabenzerpstext-to-image4,3642.4MSep 20
07LTX-2.5Lightricksimage-to-video7,8971.9MJul 23
08drama-3fishaudiotext-to-speech4194,048Oct 1
09Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Uncensored-GGUFAtomicChattext-to-image478296.3kOct 9
10Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0ConwayResearchtext-generation491344.2kOct 8
11LFM2.5-24B-A2BLiquidAItext-generation3766,286Oct 12
12Qwen3.8-27BQwenimage-text-to-text17,7607.4MAug 5
13Unlimited-OCRbaiduimage-text-to-text4,6761.2MJun 19
14Qwen3.8-27B-Coder390-EfficientThink-Opus5.5-GPT6Astra-Grok4.7-DSV4Pro-K3-SFT-RLOO-MTP-DFlash2nerkyorimage-text-to-text357148.7kOct 4
15iris-3bsperidlabstext-to-image2801,257Oct 5
16MiniCPM-V-4.7-1Bopenbmbimage-text-to-text3575,274Oct 6
17clefCloudflareimage-text-to-text2,17519.3kSep 30
18JEV-35B-NVFP4autotrusttext-classification32046.8kOct 11
19whistleCactus-Computeautomatic-speech-recognition41338.8kSep 30
20d1-3BLiquidAIimage-text-to-text41616.7kOct 5

Likes and downloads as of that day. Each model keeps its own licence.