# Tagged small-model

> Announcements and real-world deployments of AI, checked against their sources and scored: open-weights releases, decision models in the wild, and what is actually in use.

- [Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B on-device reasoning MoE with 2B active](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/liquidai-lfm2-5-24b-a2b/index.md): LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a 24B-parameter reasoning model with about 2.45B active, built for agents on-device, under the LFM1.0 licence. (2026-10-12)
- [OpenBMB releases MiniCPM5-2B, a dense 2B model with open training data, under Apache 2.0](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/openbmb-minicpm5-2b/index.md): MiniCPM5-2B is a dense 2B on-device model for coding, tool use and long context, released with its UltraData training sets. (2026-09-06)
- [IBM releases Granite 4.1 8B, an Apache 2.0 instruct model for enterprise tasks](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/ibm-granite-granite-4-1-8b/index.md): Granite 4.1 8B is a long-context instruct model with better tool calling and instruction following, under Apache 2.0. (2026-04-29)
- [Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4, with a 31B dense model under Apache 2.0](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/google-gemma-4-31b-it/index.md): Gemma 4 comes in five sizes from E2B to 31B, with multimodal input, 256K context on the larger models and an Apache 2.0 licence. (2026-03-11)
- [NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B, a hybrid Mamba-MoE reasoning model](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b/index.md): Nemotron 3 Nano is a 30B hybrid Mamba-2 and MoE model with 3.5B active parameters, under the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License. (2025-12-04)
- [Mistral releases Ministral 3, edge models in 3B, 8B and 14B under Apache 2.0](https://shipped.anth.us/open-weights/mistralai-ministral-3/index.md): Ministral 3 is a family of 3B, 8B and 14B edge models with vision, in base, instruct and reasoning versions, under Apache 2.0. (2025-10-31)