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- PhotoCraft — Pure-Rust open-source photo editor in the ArtCraft suite (early alpha). (Tool · Image & Design · 2026-10-13)
- Cloudflare Clef — 27B multimodal decision model that returns option probabilities in one forward pass. (Model · Models · 2026-10-13)
- EmbeddingGemma 2 — Google DeepMind open multimodal embedding model (~0.74B, Apache-2.0). (Model · Models · 2026-10-13)
- Kolibri-1 — Aleph Alpha German/English MoE reasoning model with tool calling and 1M context. (Model · Models · 2026-10-13)
- Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo — Accelerated Qwen-Image-2.1 checkpoint for text-to-image and editing (weights released). (Model · Models · 2026-10-13)
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Image & Design
Open-source and free tools for still images: editors that people compare with Photoshop, local generation models, and new Rust-native apps. …
Video & Audio
A placeholder category for open video editors, local speech models, and audio tools. No seed pages live here yet. We will not fill it with u…
Writing & Office
Intended home for writing assistants and office-suite alternatives. The first seed batch has no verified writing tools, so this page stays a…
Dev & Coding
Future home for open coding assistants and local developer tools. Embedding search apps such as DigUp are mentioned on model pages when the …
AI Chat & Agents
Chat UIs and agent frameworks will be grouped here. The seed set focuses on models (Kolibri-1, Cloudflare Clef) rather than chat products, s…
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Open-weight language, embedding, decision, and image-generation models. Each model page must hang off an alternatives hub so new-term URLs f…
New open models this week
Models first seen within 14 days of 2026-10-13 (seed radar window).
| Model | Parameters | License | Type | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo | Not yet verified | other | image-gen | 2026-10-09 |
| Kolibri-1 | 78.1B | Apache-2.0 | llm | 2026-10-02 |
| Cloudflare Clef | 27B | Apache-2.0 | decision | 2026-09-30 |
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