General-Purpose Language Models
Open-weight large language models released by major AI labs, usable outside any single vendor's hosted API.
Scoring method (open_source_ai_tools_v1): 40% GitHub activity (time-decay since last push) + 40% stars (log-normalized within category) + 20% license permissiveness, minus 5 points if archived. Last generated: 2026-09-13T07:03:13.193747+00:00
#1
8.85
Gemma
Google DeepMind's family of lightweight open-weight models
+ recently active
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#2
7.37
Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight large language model family
+ 21711 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (Apache-2.0)
#3
6.92
DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek's open-weight mixture-of-experts language model
+ 104435 GitHub stars (top of category)
+ permissive license (MIT)
#4
5.85
Llama
Meta's family of open-weight large language models
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