AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to LongCat-2.0
1.6T MoE trained entirely on AI ASICs
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B▲124The open sparse MoE model for agentic coding
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Powers faster, efficient reasoning for long-running agents
Jun 2026 · developer.nvidia.com · its alternatives →
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I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3]. I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate this open research replication as well. Happy to answer any questions or face any feedback. Cheers [1]…
2024 · github.com · 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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I've been obsessed for the past ~year with the possibilities of talking to LLMs. I built a bunch of one-off prototypes, shared code on X, started a Meetup group in SF, and co-hosted a big hackathon. It turns out that there are a few low-level problems that everybody building conversational/real-time AI needs to solve on the way to building/shipping something that works well: low-latency media transport, echo cancellation, voice activity detection, phrase endpointing, pipelining data between models/services, handling voice interruptions, swapping out different…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-V4▲387The open-source era of 1M context intelligence
Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Llama▲3123.1-405B: an open source model to rival GPT-4o / Claude-3.5
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Kimi K2▲345The 1T parameter open model for agentic intelligence
2025 · moonshotai.github.io · its alternatives →
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Kimi K2.6▲339Open-source SOTA for long-horizon coding and agent swarms
Apr 2026 · kimi.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2. The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits between 400-1,500 tokens/sec on VR devices like Meta Quest 3S and Apple Vision Pro, and ranges…
Aug 2026 · cactuscompute.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen2.5-Max▲59Large language model series developed by Alibaba Cloud
2025 · qwenlm.github.io · its alternatives →
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Ollama v0.19▲410Massive local model speedup on Apple Silicon with MLX
Apr 2026 · ollama.com · its alternatives →
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Fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning - KhoomeiK/LlamaGym
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MiMo-V2-Flash▲241Ultra-fast 309B MoE model for coding & agents
Dec 2025 · mimo.xiaomi.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen 1.5 MoE▲100Highly efficient mixture-of-expert (MoE) model from Alibaba
2024 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Metal-first MoE inference for Apple Silicon with bounded SSD expert streaming and local OpenAI Chat, Responses, and Anthropic Messages endpoints. - hebrus-labs/hebrus
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After training calculator agent via RL, I really wanted to go bigger! So I built RL infrastructure for training long-horizon terminal/coding agents that scales from 2x A100s to 32x H100s (~$1M worth of compute!) Without any training, my 32B agent hit #19 on Terminal-Bench leaderboard, beating Stanford's Terminus-Qwen3-235B-A22! With training... well, too expensive, but I bet the results would be good! *What I did*: - Created a Claude Code-inspired agent (system msg + tools) - Built Docker-isolated GRPO training where each rollout gets its own container - Developed a multi-agent…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Our goal with this project is to build a completely open source, state of the art turn detection model that can be used in any voice AI application. I've been experimenting with LLM voice conversations since GPT-4 was first released. (There's a previous front page Show HN about Pipecat, the open source voice AI orchestration framework I work on. [1]) It's been almost two years, and for most of that time, I've been expecting that someone would "solve" turn detection. We all built initial, pretty good 80/20 versions of turn detection on top of VAD (voice activity detection) models. And…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · lama.nbnl.uk · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Nextfree tier▲108The open-weight preview of Qwen4
Aug 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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