Latest open artifacts (#18): Arcee's 400B MoE, LiquidAI's underrated 1B model, new Kimi, and anticipation of a busy month

Tons of useful "niche" models and anticipation of big releases coming soon.

This post originally appeared in Interconnects.

“From OCR to embeddings and song-generation, this issue has some of everything and there really tends to be open models that excel at any modality needed today…”

January was on the slower side of open model releases compared to the record-setting year that was 2025. While there were still plenty of very strong and noteworthy models, most of the AI industry is looking ahead to models coming soon. There have been countless rumors of DeepSeek V4’s looming release and impressive capabilities alongside a far more competitive open model ecosystem.

In the general AI world, rumors for Claude Sonnet 5’s release potentially being tomorrow have been under debate all weekend. We’re excited for what comes next — for now, plenty of new open models to tinker with.