Claude Fable 5 is out and this might not stop here.
Open-source answered by shipping the entire stack.
Tools, models, and the builders pushing it forward. One bookmark, the whole map π
π οΈ TOOLS β the goated 5
β’ Hugging Face β the town square. 500k models, datasets, Spaces β
huggingface.co
β’ Ollama β run any model locally in one command (MIT) β
ollama.com
β’ llama.cpp β the engine under Ollama, LM Studio & Jan β
github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpβ¦
β’ vLLM β production serving, the throughput king β
github.com/vllm-project/vllm
β’ Open WebUI β self-hosted ChatGPT UI for local models β
github.com/open-webui/open-wβ¦
π§ MODELS β 5 worth running (mid-2026)
β’ DeepSeek V4 β leaderboard king. 1M context, MIT. Agentic long-context.
β’ Kimi K2.6 β #1 open on Artificial Analysis. Agent swarms, long autonomous runs.
β’ GLM-5.1 β best all-round agentic coder. Cleanest MIT.
β’ Qwen3.6 β best small dense coder. Apache 2.0. Your license-clean workhorse.
β’ MiniMax M3 β newest. Frontier coding 1M ctx multimodal. 59% on SWE-Bench Pro.
β³ Laptop-local? Gemma 4 12B runs in 16GB RAM.
π€ BUILDERS β follow these 5 right now
β’
@danielhanchen β Unsloth. 10M downloads/mo. Fine-tune 2x faster, 80% less VRAM.
β’
@ggerganov β llama.cpp / ggml. The reason AI runs on your own hardware.
β’ @Teknium1 β
@NousResearch Research. Fastest growing AI agent. Hermes models open datasets.
β’
@reach_vb β Hugging Face. The fastest feed for new open drops.
β’
@ClementDelangue β HF CEO. The institutional voice of open AI.
Special mentions to my favorite creators (
@thdxr (
@opencode),
@0xSero (
local.ai) and
@neural_avb
on just awesome learning content.
Notice something? Four of the top five models are from Chinese labs.
The rest of the world needs serious catch up!
Save this one. π
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