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BetaAI and tech news.Edition of Sat 17 Oct 2026 

Trending models on 17 Oct 2026

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

Updated 17 Oct 2026, 10:21 UTCSource: Hugging Face
#ModelTaskLikesDownloadsCreated
01embeddinggemma-2googlefeature-extraction2,542158.5kSep 14
02humanizerjialinyyzztext-generation1,85295.9kSep 11
03MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3Bopenbmbimage-text-to-text86636.3kOct 7
04drama-3fishaudiotext-to-speech5758,193Oct 1
05flux-3-image-klein-comfyblack-forest-labsimage-to-image530224.1kOct 14
06LTX-2.5Lightricksimage-to-video8,1332MJul 23
07Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantizedabenzerpstext-to-image4,4602.6MSep 20
08Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42Bmeta-modelsimage-text-to-text4621,600Sep 15
09Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboQwentext-to-image95020.7kOct 9
10LFM2.5-24B-A2BLiquidAItext-generation43811.9kOct 12
11flux-3-image-kleinblack-forest-labsimage-to-image42346.1kOct 13
12Unlimited-OCRbaiduimage-text-to-text4,7571.5MJun 19
13Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Uncensored-GGUFAtomicChattext-to-image523362.5kOct 9
14DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017deepseek-aiimage-text-to-text3300Oct 17
15Qwen3.8-27BQwenimage-text-to-text17,8707.8MAug 5
16MiniCPM-V-4.7-1Bopenbmbimage-text-to-text36915.2kOct 6
17Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0ConwayResearchtext-generation518394.3kOct 8
18sam3facebookmask-generation4,5272MNov 7, 2025
19iris-3bsperidlabstext-to-image3031,383Oct 5
20d3vllm-srzero-shot-classification2214,263Oct 10

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