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Qwen keeps generating enthusiasm in the AI community. Practitioners are highlighting the model's ability to deliver high performance on modest hardware while having fully accessible weights. Aider LLM Leaderboards: The Qwen2.5-Coder family's accessibility is a key talking point. Users emphasize...

SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct has claimed the top position in our weekly language model rankings, where we evaluate models based on download frequency and user engagement metrics from Hugging Face and LLM Explorer.   The model family has generated significant interest in the AI community,...

  Microsoft and Apple recently released tools on Hugging Face that address UI understanding for AI systems. Both focus on converting screenshots of user interfaces into structured data that AI can understand and use. These tools aim to improve how AI systems work with computer screens and...

The top model of the current week in our ranking is Aya Expanse 8B, developed by Cohere For AI. Aya-Expanse was released in two versions: 32B and 8B parameters, specifically designed for translation tasks. The model uses a transformer architecture with a 128K token context length and processes...

The recently launched Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct by NVIDIA, the top-ranked model on our list, has provoked hot discussions in the AI community. As usual, we decided to summarize what users think about the model. Brief overview of the LLM License llama3.1 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct is...

  Released under Apache-2.0 license with additional usage restrictions WhiteRabbitNeo offers the WhiteRabbitNeo-2.5-Qwen-2.5-Coder-7B, a specialized AI model designed for offensive and defensive cybersecurity tasks. This 7 billion parameter model is based on the Qwen 2.5 architecture and is...

Recent restrictions on Meta's Llama 3.2 model in the EU have prompted serious discussion within the AI community about the impact of EU regulations on AI innovation and market competitiveness. The debate focuses on the EU's strict data privacy rules, which affect AI model training and deployment,...

Qwen 2.5, a series of language models released by Alibaba, has garnered significant attention from the AI community. Users report impressive performance across various tasks, often comparing favorably to both open-source and proprietary models. AI enthusiasts consistently report that Qwen models...

Welcome back to our ranking of the most TOP-Trending models over the past week. This ranking is based on the most downloaded and liked language models on Hugging Face and LLM Explorer data. Topping our charts this week is Solar Pro Preview Instruct.   It's a 22-billion parameter model...

Making AI more reliable and trustworthy Google has introduced DataGemma - the world's first open models designed to address AI hallucination by LLMs using real-world statistical data from Google's Data Commons. Data Commons is a publicly available knowledge graph containing over 240 billion data...

Welcome back to our ongoing series where we spotlight the most trending language models shaping the current AI landscape. We ranked them by how many times they were downloaded and liked, based on information from Hugging Face and LLM Explorer. This time, let's stop over on the three leading...

Gemma 2 2B IT keeps impressing AI enthusiasts with its capabilities despite its tiny size. Here's what some users have said about it: Those who have tried it reported that for simpler tasks, it performs better than Phi-3 Mini (and sometimes Llama 3.1 8B IT) in writing stories and following...

Google's Gemma 2 2B model is demonstrating strong performance on various mobile devices, according to recent user feedback. Here's what early testers are reporting: On a Motorola g84 smartphone, both Q4 and Q8 quantized versions of the model achieve over 4 tokens per second output while using...

Mistral AI's announcement that their new Large 2 model is trained to acknowledge when it lacks sufficient information or cannot find solutions has prompted discussion among AI enthusiasts. Users generally view this feature as an important development. Some have been calling for this capability in...

We've just rolled out a major update to the LLM Explorer. This version incorporates user feedback and introduces several new features. The biggest change is the new LLM Explorer Rank (Score). This is a new smart way to evaluate language models that takes into account many factors: How popular the...