⏰ Limited-Time Free Models
Three limited-time free models are available on OpenRouter this month:
- Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 — Free until May 30 (14 days left). After expiry: $0.11/M tokens prompt, $0.19/M tokens completion. 2.8K context.
- Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite — Free until June 1 (16 days left). After expiry: $0.08/M tokens prompt, $0.30/M tokens completion. 1M context window.
- Google Gemini 2.0 Flash — Free until June 1 (16 days left). After expiry: $0.10/M tokens prompt, $0.40/M tokens completion. 1M context window.
🤗 Trending on Hugging Face
Ten new models appeared on Hugging Face in the past 24 hours. Notable ones include:
- juergengunz/fluxer — A Flux-based image generation model, leading with 4 likes among today’s new uploads.
- EtashGuha/gptlong_continue_nemotron_terminal_step3000__Qwen3-32B — A Qwen3-32B continuation fine-tune blending Nemotron and GPT-long techniques, tagged with the Qwen3 ecosystem.
- sundaycoil/text-to-speech-converter — A TTS model marked endpoints_compatible, suggesting ready-for-deployment API integration.
- PID0930/gr00t-n17-g1-inspire-broccoli-tray-h40-ckpts — A robotics model checkpoint from the gr00t series (n17-g1), suggesting continued development in embodied AI.
- Infinite3214/magic19, magic20, magic21 — A three-model series from the same author, part of an ongoing training run.
🚀 New Models on OpenRouter
Two new models hit OpenRouter today:
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) — 1M context window, $30/M tokens prompt. The fast variant of Claude Opus 4.7 brings Anthropic’s top-tier reasoning with an expanded million-token context, making it a strong contender for complex document analysis and long-context tasks.
- Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 — 32K context, $0.15/M tokens prompt. A budget-friendly newcomer from a new provider, priced aggressively for simpler inference workloads.
⭐ GitHub Trending: AI Edition
Five AI-related repositories gained significant traction:
- huangserva/3DCellForge ⭐2,021 — AI-powered interactive 3D model generation, inspection, and presentation studio. Built with JavaScript, this project crossed 2K stars rapidly.
- nexu-io/html-anything ⭐1,210 — The agentic HTML editor: your local AI agent writes the HTML, you ship it. Featuring 75 skills across 9 surfaces, it’s redefining how developers prototype web pages.
- simonlin1212/a-stock-data ⭐738 — Full-stack China A-Share market data toolkit with 6-layer architecture, 15 endpoints, and 7 data sources — a comprehensive AI skill for quantitative finance.
- alchaincyf/huashu-md-html ⭐534 — Bidirectional md/html pipeline wrapping markitdown, Pandoc, and trafilatura into a single workflow: everything→md / md→beautiful html / html→md.
- yaassin12/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-App ⭐401 — Desktop application for DeepSeek V4 Pro featuring 1.6T MoE architecture, 1M token context window, built in C++.
💡 Key Trends
Agentic web tooling is exploding. The rapid ascent of html-anything (1,210 stars) signals a major shift toward AI agents that generate production-ready code autonomously. Developers are embracing tools that let them ship directly from AI output.
China’s AI ecosystem goes open source. Both a-stock-data (financial data toolkit) and huashu-md-html (document pipeline) reflect a maturing Chinese open-source AI community building practical, infrastructure-level tools rather than just model wrappers.
Robotics and 3D keep gaining steam. 3DCellForge crossing 2K stars and gr00t robotics checkpoints appearing on HF suggest the multimodal/physical AI space remains a hotbed of community activity.
Ultra-low-cost inference expands. Perceptron Mk1 at $0.15/M tokens and Mistral 7B’s free tier demonstrate that the market is fragmenting: premium reasoning models sit alongside near-zero-cost options for simpler tasks, giving developers unprecedented choice.