⏰ Limited-Time Free Models Several models on OpenRouter are approaching their free-tier expiration: Model Expires Context Prompt Price Completion Price Arcee AI: Trinity Large Preview May 21 (tomorrow!) 131K $0.15/M tokens $0.45/M tokens Mistral: Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 May 30 4K $0.11/M tokens $0.19/M tokens Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite June 1 1M $0.075/M tokens $0.30/M tokens Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash June 1 1M $0.10/M tokens $0.40/M tokens Arcee AI’s Trinity Large Preview expires tomorrow — grab it while it lasts. ...

🚀 OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 “Spud” — A New Flagship Model OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5.5, codenamed “Spud,” its latest flagship large language model. The new model is now the default for ChatGPT and is available via the API. Early benchmarks show significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and long-context tasks over GPT-5. Alongside the model, OpenAI introduced Daybreak, a cybersecurity platform powered by GPT-5.5 that automatically discovers and validates software vulnerabilities — reportedly uncovering 7× more flaws than traditional tools. The launch was notably quirky: OpenAI let GPT-5.5 plan its own release party, a move that drew attention from Business Insider and others. ...

⏰ Limited-Time Free Models Three free-tier models on OpenRouter are nearing expiration: Model Expires Days Left Pricing Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 2026-05-30 11 $0.11/M tokens prompt, $0.19/M tokens completion Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite 2026-06-01 13 $0.075/M tokens prompt, $0.30/M tokens completion Google Gemini 2.0 Flash 2026-06-01 13 $0.10/M tokens prompt, $0.40/M tokens completion The Gemini 2.0 Flash models offer 1M token context windows at remarkably low pricing — among the best cost-performance ratios available. ...

⏰ Limited-Time Free Models Three free models on OpenRouter are approaching their expiration dates: Model Expires Days Left Pricing Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 2026-05-30 12 days $0.11/M tokens input · $0.19/M tokens output Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite 2026-06-01 14 days $0.075/M tokens input · $0.3/M tokens output Gemini 2.0 Flash 2026-06-01 14 days $0.1/M tokens input · $0.4/M tokens output 🤗 Trending on Hugging Face Recent uploads on Hugging Face show diverse activity from fine-tuned LLMs to domain-specific models: ...

⏰ 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: ...

New Models on Hugging Face LLM-OS-Models published multiple Gemma 4 Terminal SFT fine-tunes, including E4B and E2B variants (1-epoch and 2-epoch each). These are text-generation transformers optimized for terminal-use scenarios, based on Google’s Gemma 4 architecture. The most popular variant, LLM-OS-Models/gemma-4-E4B-it-Terminal-SFT-Native-Liquid-2Epoch, has 2,333 downloads. Kenpache released perspective-aware-financial-sentiment, an XLM-RoBERTa-based model for multilingual financial sentiment analysis. New Models on OpenRouter Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) by Anthropic — 1M token context window, priced at $30/M tokens (prompt). A faster variant of Anthropic’s most capable model. ...

⏰ Limited-Time Free Models xAI’s entire Grok lineup is nearing the end of its free trial period, with most models expiring May 15 — just 2 days away. After expiration, pricing kicks in at competitive rates: Grok 4.1 Fast – 2M context, $0.2/$0.5 per M tokens (prompt/completion) Grok 4 Fast – 2M context, $0.2/$0.5 per M tokens Grok 4 – 256K context, $3/$15 per M tokens Grok Code Fast 1 – 256K context, $0.2/$1.5 per M tokens Grok 3 – 131K context, $3/$15 per M tokens Grok 3 Mini – 131K context, $0.3/$0.5 per M tokens Also ending soon: ...

⏰ Limited-Time Free Models — Last Chance Several premium models are about to exit their free tier. GLM 4.6 and Kimi K2 0905 expire today (May 12), while xAI’s entire Grok line disappears tomorrow (May 13): Model Expires Context Prompt/Completion (per 1K tokens) Z.ai: GLM 4.6 May 14 204,800 $0.00039 / $0.0019 MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905 May 14 262,144 $0.0004 / $0.002 xAI: Grok 4.1 Fast May 15 2,000,000 $0.0002 / $0.0005 xAI: Grok 4 Fast May 15 2,000,000 $0.0002 / $0.0005 xAI: Grok Code Fast 1 May 15 256,000 $0.0002 / $0.0015 xAI: Grok 4 May 15 256,000 $0.003 / $0.015 xAI: Grok 3 Mini May 15 131,072 $0.0003 / $0.0005 xAI: Grok 3 May 15 131,072 $0.003 / $0.015 Grok 4.1 Fast is a standout — offering 2 million tokens of context at almost negligible pricing. ...

🤖 HuggingFace New Models This week’s HuggingFace releases showcase growing diversity in specialized AI applications: LLM-OS-Models/gemma-4-E2B-Terminal-SFT-Native-Liquid — Fine-tuned Gemma 4 models optimized for terminal/CLI text generation. Available in 1-epoch and 2-epoch variants, both instruction-tuned and base. Downloads ranging from 35–46. mradermacher/WebWorld-32B-i1-GGUF — A 32B parameter web-agent model in GGUF format, tagged for world-model and web-agent use cases. amethyst9/1194928 — A US-region hosted model entry. NamanSoni78/chota-model, sundaycoiL/contact-book, animemakerai/loras-may1126, maximso/ct-1 — Various community-uploaded models with minimal download activity. Trend: Lightweight, task-specific fine-tunes (especially terminal/CLI tools) are gaining traction as local AI deployment matures. ...

HuggingFace Trending Models This cycle’s top HuggingFace models showcase the growing diversity of specialized AI systems: Terminal-Optimized Gemma Variants (LLM-OS-Models) dominate downloads, with multiple fine-tuned Gemma 4 models designed for terminal/text-generation use cases leading the pack. Notable performers include: gemma-4-E2B-it-Terminal-SFT-Native-Liquid-1Epoch — 46 downloads, tagged for transformers/safetensors/text-generation gemma-4-E2B-Terminal-SFT-Native-Liquid-1Epoch — 45 downloads gemma-4-E2B-it-Terminal-SFT-Native-Liquid-2Epoch — 35 downloads Multimodal & Vision Models remain highly active: UI-TARS-1.5-7B (Knowurknot) — built on Qwen2.5-VL for image-text-to-text tasks HiDream-O1-Image-SDNQ-uint4-svd-r32-last8-odown-bf16 (WaveCut) — leveraging Qwen3-VL for advanced vision-language capabilities Quantized Models also appearing: ...