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Week 40 · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026

This week in open models, frozen 9 Oct 2026

4 new models · 8 releases · 23 articles

Frozen on 9 Oct 2026 from that day's data, before the nightly engine froze weeks itself. Every figure keeps its own observation date.

Weights public

pplx-decider-v1-27b

perplexity-ai

pplx-decider-v1-27b is weights public (huggingface.co, 1 Oct)

Why it matters: SGLang registered; no hosted provider yet

26.1B parameters, 9 Oct 2026

huggingface.co · 1 Oct 2026

Weights public

PixelUMM

nvidia

PixelUMM is weights public (huggingface.co, 1 Oct)

huggingface.co · 1 Oct 2026

Weights public

AREX-2

BAAI

AREX-2 is weights public (huggingface.co, 29 Sep)

huggingface.co · 29 Sep 2026

API only · weights pending

Ling 3.1 Flash

inclusionai

Ling 3.1 Flash is API only (openrouter.ai, 2 Oct)

Why it matters: Open alternatives in its band: Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct, Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, gpt-oss-20b

openrouter.ai · 2 Oct 2026

Release pipeline

8 stage moves and 2 new open models that week

Typed changes per day: new models and stage moves in teal, price and licence in amber, providers and quants in grey.

2026-09-28: 1 stage move2026-09-29: 3 stage moves292026-09-30: 1 new open model2026-10-01: 1 new open model, 3 stage moves12026-10-02: 1 stage move2026-10-03: no typed changes32026-10-04: no typed changes4new models and stage moves
2026-09-28: 1 stage move2026-09-29: 3 stage moves292026-09-30: 1 new open model2026-10-01: 1 new open model, 3 stage moves12026-10-02: 1 stage move2026-10-03: no typed changes32026-10-04: no typed changes4new models

Nightly diff (events.json), generated 9 Oct 2026