AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ferret
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ferret launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Apple MGIE▲177AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them
2024 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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First TTS model to support all 22 Indic languages + English
2024 · its alternatives →
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How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RAM. The entire thing: inference, weights, chat UI, it all fits in a 40KB .COM file that you can run in a CP/M emulator and hopefully even real hardware! It won't write your emails, but it can be trained to play a stripped down version of 20 Questions, and is sometimes able to maintain the illusion of having simple but terse conversations…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM . Contribute to antimatter15/alpaca.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5 Small▲3550.8B-9B native multimodal w/ more intelligence, less compute
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5▲288The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params
Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Llama 4▲422A new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
2025 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Fast LLMs for low-latency and high-performance workflows
Jun 2026 · jetbrains.com · its alternatives →
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Pinch▲535Hey HN! I’m Christian, daily lurker and some might remember our original launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935355). Today we're launching Pinch for Mac, which we believe is a step-change improvement in real-time AI translation. Our vision is to make cross-lingual conversations feel as natural as regular conversations. TL:DR During an online meeting, the app instantly transcribes and translates all audio you hear, and allows you to decide when you translate your voice and when you don't. It's invisible to others (like Granola), and works everywhere without any…
2025 · startpinch.com · its alternatives →
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Apple MLX▲138An array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon
2023 · pypi.org · its alternatives →
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Fast, accurate STT for production-grade voice agents
May 2026 · ringg.ai · its alternatives →
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Al conversations on demand on any topic
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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MulmoChat▲88Modular Interface for visually interactive AI responses
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Google's first natively multimodal embedding model
Mar 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Zoo▲234A free, open-source playground for AI image models
2023 · zoo.replicate.dev · its alternatives →
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FastVLM▲14Lightweight open-source vision models for Apple devices
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Molmo 2▲98SOTA video understanding, pointing, and tracking VLM
Dec 2025 · allenai.org · its alternatives →
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Ultra-efficient 1.3B vision-language model for mobile
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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