Recent Open models from last 6 Months - Nov 2025 - Apr 2026

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Summary

Community-curated chart highlights surge of open LLM releases Nov 2025–Apr 2026, noting only latest versions and larger models to avoid clutter.

I created this chart with recent open models from last 6 months. Few might be older than that possibly. Included only latest versions(Ex: Only Kimi-K2.6, no Kimi-K2.5 & Kimi-K2. Also only GLM-5.1 & GLM-4.7, no GLM-4.6 & GLM-4.5). I couldn't add some models like Ling-2.5-1T, Ring-2.5-1T, Omnicoder. Also I didn't add small models(except Qwen3.5-9B/4B & Gemma-4-E4B) as the graph is too crowdy already. Sorry if I missed any recent models. Possibly best 6 months for Local LLMs?!? Still this month has more than a week, so we could get few more models. So what do you think about overall graph? Underrated & Overlooked models?
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