{"id":6074,"date":"2026-09-28T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/trending-models-en\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:00:05","slug":"trending-models-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/trending-models-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Trending Models We Covered: Hugging Face Likes and Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rankings of the models <strong>Local Model Watch has covered<\/strong> (not all of Hugging Face), built by code from weekly snapshots of each model&#8217;s Hugging Face page. Likes are cumulative; downloads are Hugging Face&#8217;s own trailing-30-day count, not a lifetime total. Each row links to our article with memory requirements and variants.<\/p>\n<p><em>Latest snapshot: 2026-W42. 70 models tracked.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Most Likes Gained Since the Previous Snapshot<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<p class=\"lmw-table-hint\" style=\"margin:0 0 4px;font-size:0.85em;opacity:0.7;\">\u2192 Scroll horizontally to see all columns<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>#<\/th>\n<th>Model<\/th>\n<th>Likes gained<\/th>\n<th>Task<\/th>\n<th>Article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Cloudflare\/clef\">Cloudflare\/clef<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+820 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/cloudflare-clef-27b-multimodal-decision-model\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Qwen\/Qwen3.8-27B\">Qwen\/Qwen3.8-27B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+569 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/qwen3-8-27b-overview-specs-performance\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Cloudflare\/clef-flash\">Cloudflare\/clef-flash<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+330 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/clef-flash-specs-performance-and-use-cases\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash\">deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+271 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/deepseek-v4-1-flash-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/prism-ml\/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf\">prism-ml\/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+214 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/18\/ternary-bonsai-2-27b-gguf\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/MiniMaxAI\/MiniMax-H3\">MiniMaxAI\/MiniMax-H3<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+154 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/minimax-h3-open-omnimodal-video-generation\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/akatz-ai\/MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA\">akatz-ai\/MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+127 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/minimax-h3-character-swap-lora\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Viggle\/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo\">Viggle\/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+125 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Image Generation and Editing<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/qwen-image-2-1-viggle-turbo-v0-1-preview\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/FermionResearch\/Phonon-2\">FermionResearch\/Phonon-2<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+84 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Audio: Speech Synthesis, Music and Speech Recognition<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/10\/01\/phonon-2-open-weight-english-asr-model\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/m-a-p\/YuE2-3B\">m-a-p\/YuE2-3B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+55 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Audio: Speech Synthesis, Music and Speech Recognition<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/yue2-3b-music-generation-model\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/XiaomiMiMo\/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL\">XiaomiMiMo\/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+50 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/27\/mimo-v2-6-pro-rl-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/nvidia\/PixelUMM\">nvidia\/PixelUMM<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+44 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>\u2014<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/nvidia-releases-pixelumm\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/WarmBloodAban\/Minimax-h3_Singularity\">WarmBloodAban\/Minimax-h3_Singularity<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+33 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/2026\/09\/07\/warmbloodaban-minimax-h3-singularity\/\">Read (Japanese)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/lilylilith\/QI_2.1_AnyAngle\">lilylilith\/QI_2.1_AnyAngle<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+33 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Image Generation and Editing<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/30\/qi-2-1-anyangle-camera-control-lora\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B\">openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+27 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/minicpm5-2b-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Lightricks\/LTX-2.5-22b-IC-LoRA-Restore\">Lightricks\/LTX-2.5-22b-IC-LoRA-Restore<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+20 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/30\/lightricks-ltx-2-5-22b-ic-lora-restore\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Altworld\/Hemmingway-1\">Altworld\/Hemmingway-1<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+19 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/hemmingway-1-open-27b-model-specialized-for-human-like-writing\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/orcarouter\/OrcaSAQ-2-27B\">orcarouter\/OrcaSAQ-2-27B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+17 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/orcasaq2-27b-qwen3-8-27b-quantized\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Lightricks\/LTX-2.5-22b-IC-LoRA-SDR-To-HDR\">Lightricks\/LTX-2.5-22b-IC-LoRA-SDR-To-HDR<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+16 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/10\/01\/ltx-25-sdr-to-hdr-ic-lora\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813\">deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813<\/a><\/td>\n<td>+13 (2026-W41 \u2192 2026-W42)<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/deepseek-v4-pro-0813-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Most Liked<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<p class=\"lmw-table-hint\" style=\"margin:0 0 4px;font-size:0.85em;opacity:0.7;\">\u2192 Scroll horizontally to see all columns<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>#<\/th>\n<th>Model<\/th>\n<th>Likes<\/th>\n<th>Task<\/th>\n<th>Article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Qwen\/Qwen3.8-27B\">Qwen\/Qwen3.8-27B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>17,508<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/qwen3-8-27b-overview-specs-performance\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/MiniMaxAI\/MiniMax-H3\">MiniMaxAI\/MiniMax-H3<\/a><\/td>\n<td>6,043<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/minimax-h3-open-omnimodal-video-generation\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash\">deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash<\/a><\/td>\n<td>4,364<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/deepseek-v4-1-flash-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Edge0\/Edge0-35B-A3B-preview\">Edge0\/Edge0-35B-A3B-preview<\/a><\/td>\n<td>3,568<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/11\/edge0-35b-a3b-preview-sparse-moe\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/prism-ml\/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf\">prism-ml\/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf<\/a><\/td>\n<td>2,630<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/18\/ternary-bonsai-2-27b-gguf\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Edge0\/Audio8-ASR-Infinite\">Edge0\/Audio8-ASR-Infinite<\/a><\/td>\n<td>2,434<\/td>\n<td>Audio: Speech Synthesis, Music and Speech Recognition<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/edge0-audio8-asr-infinite-2\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Cloudflare\/clef\">Cloudflare\/clef<\/a><\/td>\n<td>2,028<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/cloudflare-clef-27b-multimodal-decision-model\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/XingChen-AGI\/Xing4.0-29B-A4B\">XingChen-AGI\/Xing4.0-29B-A4B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,835<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/xing4-0-29b-a4b-china-telecom\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B\">openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,741<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/minicpm5-2b-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/m-a-p\/YuE2-3B\">m-a-p\/YuE2-3B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,123<\/td>\n<td>Audio: Speech Synthesis, Music and Speech Recognition<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/yue2-3b-music-generation-model\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813\">deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813<\/a><\/td>\n<td>868<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/deepseek-v4-pro-0813-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/nex-agi\/Nex-N2.5-mini\">nex-agi\/Nex-N2.5-mini<\/a><\/td>\n<td>862<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/nex-n25-mini-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Altworld\/Hemmingway-1\">Altworld\/Hemmingway-1<\/a><\/td>\n<td>851<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/hemmingway-1-open-27b-model-specialized-for-human-like-writing\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/WarmBloodAban\/Minimax-h3_Singularity\">WarmBloodAban\/Minimax-h3_Singularity<\/a><\/td>\n<td>757<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/2026\/09\/07\/warmbloodaban-minimax-h3-singularity\/\">Read (Japanese)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Cloudflare\/clef-flash\">Cloudflare\/clef-flash<\/a><\/td>\n<td>756<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/clef-flash-specs-performance-and-use-cases\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Viggle\/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo\">Viggle\/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo<\/a><\/td>\n<td>712<\/td>\n<td>Image Generation and Editing<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/qwen-image-2-1-viggle-turbo-v0-1-preview\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/XiaomiMiMo\/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL\">XiaomiMiMo\/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL<\/a><\/td>\n<td>698<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/27\/mimo-v2-6-pro-rl-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/nex-agi\/Nex-N2.5-Pro\">nex-agi\/Nex-N2.5-Pro<\/a><\/td>\n<td>676<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/nex-agi-announces-nex-n25-pro-agent-model\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/harshatheg\/Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCD\">harshatheg\/Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCD<\/a><\/td>\n<td>583<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/qwen-25-1b-rlcd-mlx-constrained-decoding\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/akatz-ai\/MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA\">akatz-ai\/MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA<\/a><\/td>\n<td>418<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/minimax-h3-character-swap-lora\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Most Downloaded (Trailing 30 Days)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<p class=\"lmw-table-hint\" style=\"margin:0 0 4px;font-size:0.85em;opacity:0.7;\">\u2192 Scroll horizontally to see all columns<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>#<\/th>\n<th>Model<\/th>\n<th>Downloads (30d)<\/th>\n<th>Task<\/th>\n<th>Article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Qwen\/Qwen3.8-27B\">Qwen\/Qwen3.8-27B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>6,843,108<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/qwen3-8-27b-overview-specs-performance\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/prism-ml\/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf\">prism-ml\/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf<\/a><\/td>\n<td>4,549,911<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/18\/ternary-bonsai-2-27b-gguf\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/MiniMaxAI\/MiniMax-H3\">MiniMaxAI\/MiniMax-H3<\/a><\/td>\n<td>3,607,946<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/minimax-h3-open-omnimodal-video-generation\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash\">deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,382,367<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/deepseek-v4-1-flash-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B\">openbmb\/MiniCPM5-2B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1,285,616<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/minicpm5-2b-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/WarmBloodAban\/Minimax-h3_Singularity\">WarmBloodAban\/Minimax-h3_Singularity<\/a><\/td>\n<td>613,477<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/2026\/09\/07\/warmbloodaban-minimax-h3-singularity\/\">Read (Japanese)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Viggle\/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo\">Viggle\/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo<\/a><\/td>\n<td>453,180<\/td>\n<td>Image Generation and Editing<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/qwen-image-2-1-viggle-turbo-v0-1-preview\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Comfy-Org\/YuE2\">Comfy-Org\/YuE2<\/a><\/td>\n<td>375,878<\/td>\n<td>\u2014<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/13\/comfy-org-yue2-comfyui-release\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Comfy-Org\/Ming-Image\">Comfy-Org\/Ming-Image<\/a><\/td>\n<td>149,601<\/td>\n<td>\u2014<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/comfy-org-ming-image-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/XiaomiMiMo\/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL\">XiaomiMiMo\/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL<\/a><\/td>\n<td>95,740<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/27\/mimo-v2-6-pro-rl-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813\">deepseek-ai\/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813<\/a><\/td>\n<td>82,451<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/deepseek-v4-pro-0813-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Edge0\/Edge0-35B-A3B-preview\">Edge0\/Edge0-35B-A3B-preview<\/a><\/td>\n<td>80,966<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/11\/edge0-35b-a3b-preview-sparse-moe\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/XingChen-AGI\/Xing4.0-29B-A4B\">XingChen-AGI\/Xing4.0-29B-A4B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>51,938<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/xing4-0-29b-a4b-china-telecom\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Efficient-Large-Model\/H3-to-LTX-Latent-Adapter\">Efficient-Large-Model\/H3-to-LTX-Latent-Adapter<\/a><\/td>\n<td>48,279<\/td>\n<td>\u2014<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/h3-to-ltx-latent-adapter-released\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Edge0\/Audio8-ASR-Infinite\">Edge0\/Audio8-ASR-Infinite<\/a><\/td>\n<td>41,209<\/td>\n<td>Audio: Speech Synthesis, Music and Speech Recognition<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/edge0-audio8-asr-infinite-2\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/akatz-ai\/MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA\">akatz-ai\/MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA<\/a><\/td>\n<td>40,640<\/td>\n<td>Video Generation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/minimax-h3-character-swap-lora\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/bartowski\/TheDrummer_Orion-26B-A4B-v1.1-GGUF\">bartowski\/TheDrummer_Orion-26B-A4B-v1.1-GGUF<\/a><\/td>\n<td>39,321<\/td>\n<td>Vision-Language and Multimodal Models<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/orion-26b-a4b-v1-1-gguf-quantizations\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/m-a-p\/YuE2-3B\">m-a-p\/YuE2-3B<\/a><\/td>\n<td>36,450<\/td>\n<td>Audio: Speech Synthesis, Music and Speech Recognition<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/yue2-3b-music-generation-model\/\">Read<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/IFM\/K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B-GGUF\">IFM\/K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B-GGUF<\/a><\/td>\n<td>34,884<\/td>\n<td>Text Generation (Chat and Code)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/2026\/09\/06\/k2-horizon-mova-36b-a4b-gguf\/\">Read 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