Latest open artifacts (#20): New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others

One of our favorite issues of the series so far.

This post originally appeared in Interconnects.

“When the top few models get the headlines, this vast, industry-scale tinkering can easily be forgotten.”

This Artifacts Log post is unusual in how many diverse, quirky models there are across use-cases and modalities. Normally these model roundups are dominated by big models from the likes of Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, etc. There are models for all sorts of different use-cases in this post, from optical character recognition (OCR), RAG search, audio transcription, computer-use, code-editing, math theorem proving, and more. The artifacts covered this month also come from a much broader list of open model builders.

This gives us a lot of hope for the future of open models, where we see the need for domain-specific, cheap models as being crucial tools to complement the strongest, closed agents. When the top few models get the headlines, this vast, industry-scale tinkering can easily be forgotten. Reading this post gives a technically grounded, broad coverage of the many directions the industry is pushing specific models for. Expect more like this!