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The Markets Desk — Week 44 · Tue 27 Oct 2026
Data / Models

What got released, and who is winning on the phone.

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Open-weight models released each dayThe most-downloaded open modelsWhich model people prefer in a blind voteWhere an AI app sits in the free chartHow much model there is to buyHow much warning a model gets before it is switched off
Pick
all sizesApache 2.0Gemma licenceLlama licenceMITanother licence15–70B3–15B
Open-weight models released each day
as of 2026-10-26
1,585 open-weight modelsall
1,585
05001,0001,5002,0002,500
7 Sept 202626 Oct 2026
  1. ① Meta Platforms — 424B5: $22.5bn Class A common stock offering via forward sellers
  2. ② Meta Platforms — 424B5: 250,000,000 Series A mandatory convertible preferred depositary shares
  3. ③ Fireworks — a minor incident: Service Degradation for Kimi K3 — 154 minutes
  4. ④ Cloudflare — a minor incident: Delayed, missed, and duplicated Workers Cron Triggers — 206 minutes
  5. ⑤ Cloudflare — a minor incident: Network Performance Issues in Chicago (ORD) — 42 minutes
  6. ⑥ Fireworks — a minor incident: Service Degradation for Kimi K3 — 14 minutes
  7. ⑦ Cloudflare — a minor incident: Cloudflare Workers build delays — 51 minutes

Hugging Face · LMArena · the App Store · OpenRouter · the providers’ own deprecation pages · daily · weekly · history from the source back to 31 Aug 2026 · since 14 Sept 2026

we gathered it

That day brought 1,585 open-weight models. That is 13% less than last week.

Range
1m3mopens 2026-12-131yopens 2027-09-14all
Compare
nonethe AI beat indexApache 2.0Gemma licenceLlama licence
The last 12 observations
Daymodels
2026-10-261,585
2026-10-251,550
2026-10-241,430
2026-10-231,942
2026-10-221,731
2026-10-211,933
2026-10-201,884
2026-10-191,831
2026-10-181,839
2026-10-171,742
2026-10-161,773
2026-10-152,212
  • 2026-10-28Amazon (AWS)

    2026-Q3 numbers

  • 2026-10-28Alphabet

    2026-Q3 numbers

  • 2026-10-28Microsoft

    2026-Q3 numbers

  • 2026-11-05Palantir

    2026-Q3 numbers

  • 2026-11-09CoreWeave

    2026-Q3 numbers

What happened

the numbered ones are marked on the chart
  • 2026-10-27Fireworks

    a minor incident: Service Degradation for Kimi K3 — 30 minutes

    the provider status page

  • ① 2026-10-26Meta Platforms

    424B5: $22.5bn Class A common stock offering via forward sellers

    agent:company-events · SEC EDGAR 424B5

  • ② 2026-10-26Meta Platforms

    424B5: 250,000,000 Series A mandatory convertible preferred depositary shares

    agent:company-events · SEC EDGAR 424B5

  • ③ 2026-10-26Fireworks

    a minor incident: Service Degradation for Kimi K3 — 154 minutes

    the provider status page

  • ④ 2026-10-26Cloudflare

    a minor incident: Delayed, missed, and duplicated Workers Cron Triggers — 206 minutes

    the provider status page

  • ⑤ 2026-10-26Cloudflare

    a minor incident: Network Performance Issues in Chicago (ORD) — 42 minutes

    the provider status page

  • ⑥ 2026-10-26Fireworks

    a minor incident: Service Degradation for Kimi K3 — 14 minutes

    the provider status page

  • ⑦ 2026-10-26Cloudflare

    a minor incident: Cloudflare Workers build delays — 51 minutes

    the provider status page

The sources behind this tracker
SourceCadenceRows this monthNewest figureLast fetchMisses
Hugging Facehow many open-weight models were released each day, by size and by licence — the models tracker on /datadaily3302026-10-262026-10-271
Hugging Facethe most-downloaded open models, rank over timedaily31002026-10-272026-10-270
LMArenawhich-model-for-which-job with Elo historyweekly16612026-10-222026-10-260
the App Storewho's winning consumer AI, rank over timedaily7502026-10-262026-10-271
OpenRouterproviders and context windows over time — NON-PRICE fields onlydaily622026-10-272026-10-270
the providers’ own deprecation pages'your model dies on this date' inside the Personal AI Plan; five-provider retirement calendarweekly1002028-05-142026-10-260

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