open models

Reflection AI

Site of Reflection AI, an AI company building open superintelligent systems and coding agents.

Xiaomi MiMo (open models)

Xiaomi's MiMo family of open language and reasoning models, with weights and technical reports published free for anyone to download and run.

Why I recommend it: Free open weights — worth knowing about if you want to run a capable model yourself.

I Ran Gemma 4 as a Local Model in Codex CLI

A hands-on write-up of wiring Google's open Gemma 4 model into the Codex command-line coding agent so it runs locally instead of calling a hosted API.

From the site: I wanted to know whether Gemma 4 could replace a cloud model for my day-to-day agentic coding. Not in theory, in practice. I use Codex CLI…

Why I recommend it: Useful if you want to try coding agents without paying per token — local models are slower, but free and private.

Qwen

Alibaba's Qwen family of open AI models with a free chat assistant for writing, coding, image and document work in the browser.

Why I recommend it: A strong free alternative when you want a capable assistant without a subscription.

GLM-5.2 Release Notes

Z.ai's technical announcement for the GLM-5.2 model, covering what changed and how it performs.

Why I recommend it: Skim releases like this so you know which free models are actually current.