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State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

In the first seven months of 2026, the largest open models from Chinese labs ranged from 754B to 2.78 trillion parameters, while U.S. labs released models mostly under 130B parameters with only two exceptions.

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China's monthly ceiling ran between 754B and 2.78 trillion parameters; America's own ceiling stayed under 130B in five of seven months, the exception being NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra at 561B in May and June, and Inkling from Thinking Machines Lab.
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