7 New Open-Weight AI Models: What Can You Actually Run? (Oct 13–17)

Seven open-weight AI releases, from Meta and DeepSeek to local agents and multi-speaker voice AI. What changed, what do the benchmarks really say, and which models fit your hardware? This roundup covers October 13–17, 2026. Researched October 18. Benchmarks are reported by the model developers, not independent tests conducted by this channel. Open weights do not always mean an unrestricted open-source license; download access, commercial terms and hardware costs vary. CHAPTERS 0:00 Seven models in five days 0:34 Meta — Muse Spark Open 2:21 DeepSeek — V4.1-Flash-1017 3:51 StepFun — Step 5 Preview 4:51 NVIDIA — Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 5:41 Liquid AI — LFM2.5-24B-A2B 6:51 OpenBMB — MiniCPM-V 4.7 7:30 Fish Audio — Drama 3 8:22 What can you run? 8:55 The big picture OFFICIAL SOURCES Meta: https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Mu... DeepSeek: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/De... StepFun: https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Ste... NVIDIA: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-... Liquid AI: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b... OpenBMB: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCP... Fish Audio: https://huggingface.co/fishaudio/drama-3 Which model would you try first, and on what hardware? Tell us below. Subscribe to Open Model Brief for clear explanations of open models and local AI tools. Production: synthetic narration, original motion graphics and music, and official-source screenshots used for commentary. Independent coverage; no affiliation with the labs featured. #AINews #OpenModels #LocalAI