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Open-weights projects on GitHub

As of , the most-starred Open-weights projects on GitHub are DeepSeek-V3 (104.5K stars), DeepSeek-R1 (91.9K stars) and grok-1 (52.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 28 Open-weights repositories with 557.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was StartLux-Decision, with +86 stars in a day.

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StartLux-Decision

StartLuxLabs/StartLux-Decision · ★ 648

StartLux-Decision is a family of typed decision models (five dense sizes from 0.8B to 27B plus a 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts) that answer a question with a probability for each option instead of generating text.

+28

MiniMax-H3

MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-H3 · ★ 10.1K

MiniMax H3 is a general-purpose omni-modal generative system: it reads mixed text, image, video and audio input and generates video with native stereo audio, up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds per clip.

+21

Wan2.2

Wan-Video/Wan2.2 · ★ 18K

An open-source family of large-scale video generation models: text-to-video, image-to-video, speech-to-video and character animation, with inference code and model weights released under Apache-2.0.

+9

DeepSeek-R1

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 · ★ 91.9K

DeepSeek-R1 is an open-source family of reasoning-focused large language models from DeepSeek, trained with large-scale reinforcement learning to handle math, code, and general reasoning at a level comparable to OpenAI's o1.

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28 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

    DeepSeek-V3

    DeepSeek-V3 is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters but only 37B activated per token, built for efficient yet high-performing inference and matching leading closed-source models on many benchmarks.

    104.5K
  2. #2 · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

    DeepSeek-R1

    DeepSeek-R1 is an open-source family of reasoning-focused large language models from DeepSeek, trained with large-scale reinforcement learning to handle math, code, and general reasoning at a level comparable to OpenAI's o1.

    91.9K
  3. #3 · xai-org/grok-1

    grok-1

    Grok-1 is the 314B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model that xAI opened up; this repository holds the JAX example code for loading and running it.

    52.2K
  1. 4

    ChatGLM-6B

    40.9Kzai-org/ChatGLM-6B · Python

    ChatGLM-6B is an open bilingual (Chinese-English) dialogue language model with 6.2 billion parameters, based on the General Language Model (GLM) architecture.

  2. 5

    llama3

    29.2Kmeta-llama/llama3 · Python

    Meta's official GitHub home for Llama 3: model weights plus minimal code for running inference on pre-trained and instruction-tuned models in 8B and 70B sizes. The repo is now deprecated.

  3. 6

    flux

    26Kblack-forest-labs/flux · Python

    This is Black Forest Labs' official inference repo for the FLUX.1 family of image generation and editing diffusion models, providing minimal code to run the open-weight models.

  4. 7

    Qwen

    21.9KQwenLM/Qwen · Python

    The official repo of Qwen (通义千问, Tongyi Qianwen) — Alibaba Cloud's family of chat and pretrained large language models, released in sizes from 1.8B up to 72B parameters on Hugging Face and ModelScope.

  5. 8

    gpt-oss

    20.5Kopenai/gpt-oss · Python

    The gpt-oss series: two open-weight language models from OpenAI — gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — built for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases. The repo itself adds reference implementations, tools, and example clients around the models.

  6. 9

    Wan2.2

    18KWan-Video/Wan2.2 · Python

    An open-source family of large-scale video generation models: text-to-video, image-to-video, speech-to-video and character animation, with inference code and model weights released under Apache-2.0.

  7. 10

    Janus

    17.8Kdeepseek-ai/Janus · Python

    Janus is DeepSeek's family of open multimodal AI models (Janus, Janus-Pro, JanusFlow). One model both understands images and text and generates images from a text prompt.

  8. 11

    Qwen3-Coder

    16.8KQwenLM/Qwen3-Coder · Python

    Qwen3-Coder is the code-focused branch of the Qwen3 large language model family from the Qwen team — open-weight models built for coding and agentic tasks, available in several sizes.

  9. 12

    codellama

    16.2Kmeta-llama/codellama · Python

    This is Meta's official inference code for Code Llama, a family of large language models for code built on Llama 2. The repo itself is a minimal example for loading the models and running generation.

  10. 13

    supertonic

    13.8Ksupertone-oss-archive/supertonic · Swift

    Supertonic is a lightning-fast, on-device text-to-speech system: it converts text into 44.1kHz 16-bit WAV speech locally via ONNX Runtime — no cloud, no API calls, no GPU. The open-weight model, Supertonic 3, covers 31 languages.

  11. 14

    Kimi-K2

    11.1KMoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

    Kimi K2 is a large language model series from Moonshot AI: a mixture-of-experts model with 1 trillion total parameters (32B activated per token), trained for frontier knowledge, reasoning, coding and especially agentic tool-use tasks.

  12. 15

    mistral-inference

    10.8Kmistralai/mistral-inference · Jupyter Notebook

    The official inference code for Mistral AI's open-weight models: minimal Python and CLI tooling to run models like Mixtral, Codestral, Pixtral and Mistral Large locally.

  13. 16

    petals

    10.6Kbigscience-workshop/petals · Python

    Petals lets you run big open LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style: you join a public swarm that serves models like Llama 3.1 (405B), Mixtral (8x22B), Falcon (40B+) and BLOOM (176B) for inference and fine-tuning right from your desktop or Google Colab, up to 10x faster than offloading.

  14. 17

    InternVL

    10.2KOpenGVLab/InternVL · Python

    A family of open-source multimodal chat models that understand images, video and text, positioned as an open alternative to GPT-4o. InternVL2.5-78B was the first open-source model to top 70% on the MMMU benchmark.

  15. 18

    MiniMax-H3

    10.1KMiniMax-AI/MiniMax-H3 · Python

    MiniMax H3 is a general-purpose omni-modal generative system: it reads mixed text, image, video and audio input and generates video with native stereo audio, up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds per clip.

  16. 19

    Kimi-K3

    8.9KMoonshotAI/Kimi-K3

    Kimi K3 is MoonshotAI's open-weight, native multimodal agentic model — a 2.8T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts system built for frontier-level long-horizon coding, agentic knowledge work, and reasoning.

  17. 20

    GLM-5

    7.4Kzai-org/GLM-5

    GLM-5 is a family of large open-weight language models from Z.ai built for agentic engineering and complex, long-horizon coding tasks, scaling up to 744B parameters with sparse attention for efficient long-context serving.

  18. 21

    SenseNova-U1

    6.9KOpenSenseNova/SenseNova-U1 · Python

    Open-source multimodal models that unify image understanding, reasoning and image generation in one architecture. The current release, SenseNova-U1.5-8B-MoT, creates and edits images up to native 4K.

  19. 22

    Qwen3.8

    4.3KQwenLM/Qwen3.8

    Qwen3.8 is the latest open large language model release from Alibaba's Qwen team, part of the Qwen3.5 series that also includes Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6, aimed at coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks.

  20. 23

    heartlib

    3.8KHeartMuLa/heartlib · Python

    HeartMuLa is a family of open-source music foundation models for generating music from lyrics and tags, shipped together with codec, transcription and audio-text retrieval companion models.

  21. 24

    jeff

    1.5Kfirelex/jeff · Python

    Jeff is a family of small (0.8B-2B parameter) open-weight models fine-tuned from Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 that act as fast 'System 1' decision-makers: you describe a situation and a list of options in plain text, and Jeff returns a calibrated probability for each option from a single forward pass, with no generated text to parse.

  22. 25

    ai-torture-chamber

    973terrafying/ai-torture-chamber · Python

    A research project that steers small open-weight language models into strong negative or positive emotional states and measures what they say and do. A live version runs at wirehead.agency.

  23. 26

    StartLux-Decision

    648StartLuxLabs/StartLux-Decision · Python

    StartLux-Decision is a family of typed decision models (five dense sizes from 0.8B to 27B plus a 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts) that answer a question with a probability for each option instead of generating text.

  24. 27

    awesome-minimax-h3-integration

    445MiniMax-AI/awesome-minimax-h3-integration

    A community-maintained index of checkpoints, tools, and workflows for MiniMax H3, a video generation model that produces clips with native stereo audio from text, image, video, and audio inputs.

  25. 28

    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

    433QwenLM/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts foundation model from Alibaba's Qwen Team, also serving as an early preview of the architecture Alibaba plans to use for the upcoming Qwen4 model family.

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