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Cohere has released Transcribe, a 2 billion parameter open-source automatic speech recognition model that the company claims tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a 5.42% word error rate. The model supports 14 languages and is available under Apache 2.0 license, outperforming OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and competing models on both accuracy and throughput metrics.

StepFun has released Step-3.5-Flash-Base, a text generation model available on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 license. The model is part of the Step 3.5 series and focuses on efficient inference.

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8 on Hugging Face, a quantized version of their 35-billion parameter multimodal model. The FP8 quantization reduces model size and memory requirements while maintaining the base model's image-text-to-text capabilities. The model is compatible with standard Transformers endpoints and Azure deployment.

DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-R1, a text generation model featuring reasoning capabilities through chain-of-thought processing. The model was published January 20, 2025 and has accumulated over 830,000 downloads on Hugging Face.

Liquid AI has released LFM2-24B-A2B, a 24-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model designed for text generation and conversational tasks. The model supports nine languages including English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Zyphra has released ZUNA, an open-source model available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The model has been downloaded 529 times since its February 4, 2026 release.