TextRU2024–2026
Sber · Russia
Sber open models with strong Russian language support and local context, from 10B-A1.8B to 702B, all MIT. GigaChat3.1-Audio handles recordings up to two hours; GFusion is a fast diffusion text version.
- Russian-language employee assistant on your own server
- Customer replies and request handling in Russian
- Working with contracts and internal policies
- Sizes
- 10B-A1.8B – 702B-A36B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Faces2021–2026
InsightFace (deepinsight) · China
The most widely used open toolkit for face detection and recognition. Many identity-preserving image generators are built on it. The pretrained weights are non-commercial.
- Detecting and comparing faces in photos
- Face-based access in prototypes
- Face processing as part of other AI systems
- Sizes
- packages from 16 MB to 407 MB
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRU2024–2026
Sber (SberDevices) · Russia
Sber embeddings built for Russian: according to the developers, among the best on Russian-language search benchmarks. FRIDA is compact, Giga-Embeddings is more powerful.
- Search across Russian-language documents
- RAG for chatbots in Russian
- Classifying requests and reviews
- Sizes
- 480M – 10B-A1.8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextOllama2024–2026
IBM · USA
IBM enterprise models with transparent training data and ISO 42001 certification. Granite 4 is a memory-efficient Mamba and Transformer hybrid.
- Answers based on internal documents (RAG)
- Tool calling and agent work
- Data extraction and classification
- Sizes
- 350M – 34B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Weather and climate2024–2026
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · USA
A fast climate model emulator: simulates the atmosphere years and decades ahead on a single GPU. Coupled with an ocean model (SamudrACE) for long-term scenarios.
- Decades-long climate scenarios to assess long-term asset risks
- Large-scale what-if runs on temperature and precipitation
- Preparing data for crop yield and energy demand models
- Sizes
- checkpoint of about 1.8 GB
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Weather and climate2023–2026
Google DeepMind · UK
Google DeepMind's family of global weather models: GraphCast (10-day forecast), GenCast (probabilistic ensemble) and WeatherNext 2 with cyclone forecasting. Since August 2026 the weights are cleared for commercial use.
- Medium-range weather forecasts for planning shifts, voyages and deliveries
- Probabilistic assessment of extreme weather for insurance portfolios
- Tropical cyclone track forecasts for marine and port operations
- Sizes
- from lightweight 1° versions to full 0.25°
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Deepfake detection2025–2026
University of Michigan · USA
A lightweight detector of generated images, trained on 2.7M samples from nearly 5000 different generators. It errs in both directions: the result is a reason for a human to check, not proof.
- Checking submitted photos and illustrations
- Filtering AI images in a content flow
- Flagging suspicious images for manual review
- Sizes
- 22M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Image generationRU2022–2026
Sber (Kandinsky Lab) · Russia
Sber's Russian family of image and video generation models. Understands Russian-language prompts and Russian cultural context well; released under MIT.
- Images from Russian-language descriptions
- Short promo videos from text or a photo
- Instruction-based image editing
- Sizes
- 2B – 19B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Speech to textRUGGUF2024–2026
Sber · Russia
Sber's models for Russian speech recognition, among the most accurate for Russian. Includes emotion recognition, v3 with punctuation, and a multilingual version (Russian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek).
- Transcribing calls in Russian
- Meeting minutes
- Voice control of services
- Sizes
- 220M – 600M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextGGUF2025–2026
Swiss AI (ETH Zurich, EPFL, CSCS) · Switzerland
Switzerland's public open model: weights, data and recipe are open, with more than 1000 languages in training. Version 1.5 understands images.
- Multilingual assistant
- Answers based on documents
- Analysis of images and scans (v1.5)
- Sizes
- 0.5B – 70B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Weather and climate2024–2026
Microsoft Research · USA
A foundation model of Earth's atmosphere: global weather forecasts, plus separate versions for air quality and ocean waves. Computes a forecast in seconds instead of hours on a supercomputer.
- Your own forecast of temperature, wind and precipitation for company locations
- Sea state estimates for planning voyages and port operations
- Air pollution forecasts for industrial sites
- Sizes
- about 1.3B (a small test version is available)
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Weather and climate2022–2026
NVIDIA · USA
NVIDIA's set of weather and climate models: global FourCastNet forecasts, downscaling to kilometers (CorrDiff), regional storm forecasts (StormCast), climate generation (cBottle, Atlas). Run via Earth2Studio.
- Global forecasts followed by downscaling to the region you need
- Short-term forecasts of thunderstorms and heavy rain for dispatch services
- Generating many weather scenarios for stress tests
- Sizes
- 98M – 2.5B (FourCastNet 3 — about 711M)
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Satellite and geo2025–2026
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · USA
Ai2's family of models for Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat imagery, with ready-made fine-tunes for mangroves, deforestation and ecosystem types. The license excludes the extractive industries.
- Monitoring deforestation and forest condition across the supply chain
- Classifying land and crops from image series
- Image embeddings for finding similar plots
- Sizes
- Nano – Large (Base about 114M)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextGGUF2024–2026
Sarvam AI · India
Indian models focused on 22 languages of India. Sarvam 30B and 105B (2026) are MoE models with strong reasoning and agent skills.
- Multilingual customer support
- Reasoning and calculation tasks
- Agents with tool calling
- Sizes
- 2B – 105B-A10B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2023–2026
Technology Innovation Institute (TII) · UAE
A family from Abu Dhabi: from the early Falcon 40B and 180B to hybrid Falcon-H1 and tiny Falcon-H1-Tiny models of 90–600M parameters for devices.
- Assistant and answers based on documents
- Running on low-end hardware and devices
- Tool calling in simple agents
- Sizes
- 90M – 180B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextOllama2024–2026
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · USA
Fully open models: not only the weights but also the data, training code and intermediate checkpoints are published. Useful when transparent provenance matters.
- Assistant and answers based on documents
- Reasoning tasks (Think versions)
- Fine-tuning on your data with a clear model history
- Sizes
- 1B – 32B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUGGUF2024–2026
UTTER consortium (Unbabel, universities of Lisbon, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and others) · European Union
European language models trained on all EU languages and several others, with a focus on translation. Russian is supported. Permissive license.
- Translation and localization of texts
- Answering questions in different languages
- Draft emails for foreign partners
- Sizes
- 1.7B – 22B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Weather and climate2024–2026
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) · Europe (intergovernmental organization)
ECMWF's weather neural network running operationally: a 15-day forecast four times a day, an ensemble version with 51 scenarios, and since version 2, ocean waves.
- Running your own forecast from open initial data
- Ensemble forecasts to estimate the probability of frost, downpours and storms
- Wave forecasts for marine operations
- Sizes
- checkpoint of about 1 GB
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Speech to textRU2025
Meta · USA
Speech recognition for 1,600+ languages, including Russian and rare languages no system supported before. A new language can be added from a few examples.
- Transcription in rare and local languages
- Digitizing oral archives
- Subtitles in many languages
- Sizes
- 300M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextGGUF2023–2025
Inception (G42), MBZUAI and Cerebras · UAE
A model family for Arabic and English, including Gulf dialects. Suits companies working with Arabic-speaking customers and government bodies in the region.
- A chatbot in Arabic and English
- Translating and summarising documents in Arabic
- Classifying customer requests
- Sizes
- 256M – 70B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2022–2025
Silero · Russia
Lightweight Russian speech synthesis that runs on a regular CPU. Version v5 added CIS languages and languages of Russia's peoples: Tatar, Bashkir, Yakut, Kazakh and others.
- Voicing voice bot replies
- Reading texts in Russian
- Voices in the languages of Russia's peoples
- Sizes
- tens of megabytes
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Satellite and geo2025
IBM and the European Space Agency (ESA) · USA / Europe
A multimodal Earth model: understands optical and radar imagery, terrain, vegetation index and land use maps, and can generate a missing data type (for example, a "see-through-clouds" image from radar).
- Analyzing fields and forests even in cloudy weather using radar imagery
- Land use maps for assessing plots
- Flood and wildfire assessment (ready-made fine-tunes available)
- Sizes
- tiny – large (checkpoints from ~200 MB to ~3.8 GB)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Satellite and geo2023–2025
IBM and NASA · USA
Foundation models for Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery that account for image time series. Ready-made fine-tunes for floods, burn scars and crop types, plus a separate weather model, WxC.
- Mapping crops and field condition over the season
- Assessing flood zones and burn scars after natural disasters
- Monitoring changes in buildings and land use
- Sizes
- tiny – 600M (imagery), 2.3B (Prithvi WxC weather)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Deepfake detection2023–2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (SCLBD) · China
Dozens of open face-swap detectors for video and photo under one codebase with ready weights. A detector errs in both directions: its output is a reason for a human to check, not proof of a forgery.
- First-pass check of a submitted video or selfie
- Comparing several detectors on your own data
- Fine-tuning a detector for your own flow of applications
- Sizes
- Xception- and EfficientNet-class detectors, tens of millions of parameters
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Satellite and geo2025
MBZUAI · UAE
A compact research model for satellite imagery, trained on both optical (Sentinel-2) and radar (Sentinel-1) data. Narrower in scope and community than Prithvi and TerraMind.
- Classification and segmentation of satellite imagery after fine-tuning
- A base for a land monitoring prototype
- Sizes
- TerraFM-B (ViT-Base)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextGGUF2025
HUMAIN (formerly SDAIA) · Saudi Arabia
A Saudi model for Arabic and English, trained from scratch. One 7B version is openly available.
- An Arabic-language assistant
- Answering questions about documents
- Writing and editing texts in Arabic
- Sizes
- 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRU2024
deepvk (VK) · Russia
Compact Kazakh-Russian translators from VK. At 197M they translate as well as the 600M NLLB and run on a regular CPU.
- Translating requests from Kazakh to Russian
- Translating documents and instructions into Kazakh
- Bilingual customer support
- Sizes
- 197M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisNot maintained2024
University of Southern Denmark · Denmark
Turns a free-form occupation description into a standard HISCO code in 13 languages. Built for historical archives, but also useful for cleaning up job title reference lists. A human makes the decision about a candidate; automatic screening without review must not be used.
- Mapping mixed occupation names onto a single code
- Processing archives of HR and statistical data
- Preparing data for reporting
- Sizes
- based on CANINE-s, size not stated on the model card
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Satellite and geoNot maintained2023–2024
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · USA
Pretrained models from the Satlas project for Sentinel-2, Landsat and high-resolution aerial imagery. The predecessor of OlmoEarth, still used in TorchGeo.
- Detecting objects in imagery: solar farms, wind turbines, ships
- Mapping roads and buildings from aerial photos
- A starting point for fine-tuning your own geo model
- Sizes
- Swin-v2 and ResNet backbones (Base)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisNot maintained2022–2023
Mike Zhang, Rob van der Goot, Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen and LMU Munich) · Denmark
A research line of models for labour market texts: trained on job postings and the European ESCO occupation taxonomy, they pull skills and requirements out of vacancies. A human makes the decision about a candidate; automatic screening without review must not be used.
- Extracting skills and requirements from vacancy text
- Mapping skills to the single ESCO reference list
- Classifying vacancies and job titles
- Sizes
- 110M – 560M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUGGUFNot maintained2022–2023
Meta · USA
A translator for 200 languages, including rare and minor ones. Russian is supported. Strong language coverage, but the license prohibits commercial use.
- Translating texts between 200 languages
- Translating into rare languages where no other models exist
- Comparing quality when choosing a translator
- Sizes
- 600M to 3.3B (plus 54B MoE)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Deepfake detectionNot maintained2021
NAVER Clova AI Research and EURECOM · South Korea
The baseline open model against voice spoofing: it listens to the raw recording and tells a live person from synthesis or a replay. It errs in both directions - its output is a reason for a human to check, not proof.
- Voice check during phone authentication
- Filtering replays and synthesis in a voice menu
- A baseline when comparing voice detectors
- Sizes
- weight files of 0.4 and 1.3 MB
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Deepfake detectionNot maintained2020
MiniVision Technology · China
Practically the only fully open weight set for single-frame face liveness: it tells a live person from a photo, a screen or a mask. It errs in both directions - a person must be able to appeal a rejection.
- Liveness check when signing in by selfie
- Protecting an access system from a photo on a phone
- A check during remote customer identification
- Sizes
- two models of about 1.8 MB each
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
