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GenAI Model 102 - Open Source Models

Open source models are available publicly without charge. This includes the important weights file and some documentation.

Open source models can usually be download and run locally. For example, here are this most popular models as of February 2025 on Ollama, a popular tool for downloading and running models locally.

Most popular models on Ollama

Here is the current full list

The most popular open-source, or at least open-weight models, are:

Open-weight and open-source are not exactly the same. For an open-weight model: