One item per week: the frozen weekly edition of what changed in open models and why it mattered.https://openmodeldrops.com/en28 releases · 60 articles · Cheapest input price fell 37.8%: $0.063 → $0.039 per 1M (OpenRouter). · Cheapest input price fell 68%: $0.050 → $0.016 per 1M (OpenRouter). · Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo entered the release radar as weights public, open-weights (Hugging Face, 2026-10-14). · LIDstral-Arabic entered the release radar as weights public, open-weights (Hugging Face, 2026-10-14). · Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-Arabic entered the release radar as weights public, open-weights (Hugging Face, 2026-10-14).Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:59:59 GMThttps://openmodeldrops.com/week/2026-42/week-2026-421 new model · 4 releases · 60 articles · LiquidAI published d1-3B: 3.12B, lfm1.0. · 1 new provider: Cerebras. · 1 provider no longer listed: Z.ai. · Ling 3.0 Flash Sante entered the release radar as API only, weights-pending (OpenRouter, 2026-10-09). · Step 5 Preview entered the release radar as API only, weights-pending (OpenRouter, 2026-10-09).Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:59:59 GMThttps://openmodeldrops.com/week/2026-41/week-2026-414 new models · 8 releases · 23 articles · pplx-decider-v1-27b is weights public (huggingface.co, 1 Oct) · PixelUMM is weights public (huggingface.co, 1 Oct) · AREX-2 is weights public (huggingface.co, 29 Sep) · bespokelabs published Bespoke-Nimble-9B-v3: CC BY-NC 4.0 · Ling 3.1 Flash is API only (openrouter.ai, 2 Oct)Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:59:59 GMThttps://openmodeldrops.com/week/2026-40/week-2026-40