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24 alternatives to StableLM
Stability AI's language models
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. StableLM launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 41B
Mar 2026 · prismml.com · its alternatives →
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gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b open-weight language models
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5▲307The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params
Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · 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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GLM-5▲154Open-weights model for long-horizon agentic engineering
Feb 2026 · z.ai · its alternatives →
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- 13Qwen3.5 Small▲359
0.8B-9B native multimodal w/ more intelligence, less compute
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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- 15AT
Interactive timeline of every major Large Language Model. Filterable by open/closed source, searchable, 54 organizations tracked.
Feb 2026 · llm-timeline.com · its alternatives →
- 16CT
We are excited to announce Cedille, the largest language model for French (6b parameters). Demo: https://cedille.ai Language models are general purpose AI systems that are able to solve a range of tasks by simply being prompted for it. It can be used for example to summarize text, do translations, or for idea generation & overcoming writer's block. You may know GPT-3, the humongous model from OpenAI. Cedille is a similar model targeting the French demographic - but smaller, as we don’t yet have $1b in the bank like they do. Although GPT-3 supports multiple languages including…
2021 · its alternatives →
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First TTS model to support all 22 Indic languages + English
2024 · its alternatives →
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Microsoft Phi-4▲196Microsoft’s New Small Language Model For Complex Reasoning
2024 · its alternatives →
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