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BetaAI and tech news.Edition of Fri 16 Oct 2026 

Trending models on 16 Oct 2026

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

Updated 16 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTCSource: Hugging Face
#ModelTaskLikesDownloadsCreated
01embeddinggemma-2googlefeature-extraction2,448151.3kSep 14
02humanizerjialinyyzztext-generation1,78285.6kSep 11
03Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboQwentext-to-image90517.4kOct 9
04MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3Bopenbmbimage-text-to-text81217.6kOct 7
05drama-3fishaudiotext-to-speech5106,158Oct 1
06Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantizedabenzerpstext-to-image4,4102.5MSep 20
07LTX-2.5Lightricksimage-to-video7,9941.9MJul 23
08Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Uncensored-GGUFAtomicChattext-to-image506327.8kOct 9
09LFM2.5-24B-A2BLiquidAItext-generation4049,356Oct 12
10Unlimited-OCRbaiduimage-text-to-text4,7241.3MJun 19
11Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42Bmeta-modelsimage-text-to-text351815Sep 15
12Qwen3.8-27BQwenimage-text-to-text17,8147.5MAug 5
13Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0ConwayResearchtext-generation505371kOct 8
14flux-3-image-kleinblack-forest-labsimage-to-image33322.8kOct 13
15flux-3-image-klein-comfyblack-forest-labsimage-to-image33373.8kOct 14
16Qwen3.8-27B-Coder390-EfficientThink-Opus5.5-GPT6Astra-Grok4.7-DSV4Pro-K3-SFT-RLOO-MTP-DFlash2nerkyorimage-text-to-text380182.1kOct 4
17MiniCPM-V-4.7-1Bopenbmbimage-text-to-text3638,822Oct 6
18iris-3bsperidlabstext-to-image2931,320Oct 5
19sam3facebookmask-generation4,4752MNov 7, 2025
20clefCloudflareimage-text-to-text2,18420.2kSep 30

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