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Tools that entered the AI Hot List for the first time in the last 7 days: 93 in total, newest first · Updated Oct 18, 2026, 3:41 AM PDT (Los Angeles time) · The listing date is when this site first recorded the tool

Oct 18, 2026 6 added

GitHub🔥 7.33Game development

blender-ai-mcp-addon

Blender AI MCP plugin is an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender, supporting visual chat, scene tools and multi-agent workflows. It integrates with models such as OpenAI, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Ollama.

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Hacker News🔥 7.28Vibe Coding / AI Programming

Sphinx

Sphinx is a hook tool that tests a developer's understanding of AI-generated code by asking questions before code is committed.

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Product Hunt🔥 6.35AI Agent / automation workflows

Craft Agents

Craft Agents is a platform focused on building powerful AI Agents, emphasising intelligent agent creation tools that deliver excellent user experience.

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Product Hunt🔥 6.28Vibe Coding / AI Programming

Ultracite v8

Ultracite v8 is a code linter and formatter designed for Agentic development.

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Product Hunt🔥 6.28Productivity / other

GPU Terminal by Context.dev

GPU Terminal by Context.dev is a tool that helps users compare GPU rental prices across major cloud providers.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.91Search and research

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B released by Tencent is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model available on Hugging Face.

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Oct 17, 2026 12 added

red-bean-qing-tuan

An embeddable TypeScript Agent Runtime that supports model→tool loops, checkpoint persistence, interrupt barriers and other features. Zero production dependencies and can be embedded into any host environment.

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ai-companion-kit

An open-source AI companion toolkit that gives AI memory and context awareness, supports QQ chat companionship, and controls Android phones via MCP.

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GitHub🔥 0.61Productivity / other

deepseek-local-guide-ru

Complete Russian-language guide detailing how to locally install and run DeepSeek V4 and R1 models on PC, Mac and servers, supporting multiple methods including Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, vLLM, Open WebUI, API, RAG, Agent and fine-tuning.

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Product Hunt🔥 7.05AI Agent / automation workflows

Notion: Context for your agents

Notion’s AI feature that provides contextual memory for AI agents, eliminating the need to repeatedly explain work when switching between different AI agents.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.47Search and research

indra-ocr

Indra-OCR is a Hugging Face-based OCR model for text recognition in images.

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NitroStack

NitroStack is an all-in-one platform for building, testing and deploying MCP servers.

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Product Hunt🔥 6.84Productivity / other

Emochi

Emochi is a voice diary app that helps users understand themselves through artistic and scientific methods.

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Product Hunt🔥 6.55Productivity / other

Train with Pasta

Train with Pasta is a personal training app powered by Apple Intelligence that provides intelligent fitness guidance tailored to user needs.

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esp32-thinks

A multi-model personal AI voice assistant for ESP32, supporting wake-word or knob activation. It allows any OpenAI-compatible STT, chat and TTS models to be freely combined for streaming responses and works out of the box. Built on muse-gadget-sdk.

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Hacker News🔥 7.76Productivity / other

Llmspeed

Llmspeed is an online tool that helps users experience the actual runtime speed of local LLMs through simulation before purchasing hardware.

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Dottr

Dottr is an AI agent that automatically drafts contracts, identifies potential risks and completes electronic signatures.

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Hugging Face models🔥 3.27Search and research

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is an open-source large language model released by DeepSeek, supporting efficient inference and multilingual capabilities.

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Oct 16, 2026 19 added

Product Hunt🔥 5.61Audio / dubbing / music

Fish Audio Drama 3

Fish Audio Drama 3 is an AI voice acting tool that can be directed directly. Users can not only generate voices but also give real-time guidance and adjustments to the AI dubbing like a director.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.39Search and research

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local

NVIDIA-released Qwen3.8B Flash Next FP4 quantised version, a lightweight large language model for local execution.

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Product Hunt🔥 5.72Productivity / other

Hintly for Google Meet™

Hintly for Google Meet is a real-time prompting tool that provides instant hints for every term you miss during Google Meet calls.

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Product Hunt🔥 7.23Video and digital humans

Jockey by TwelveLabs

Jockey is a video understanding and search tool from TwelveLabs that organises, makes searchable and deeply understands entire video libraries.

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Product Hunt🔥 6.89AI Agent / automation workflows

Harness by Autonomous

Harness by Autonomous is a unified command centre platform for managing and coordinating multiple AI coding Agents and machines.

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Product Hunt🔥 6.09AI Agent / automation workflows

Pomerado

Pomerado is a tool that turns any website into an API, using reliable browser automation for data extraction and interaction.

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GitHub🔥 5.27Game development

NPCTalk

NPCTalk is an open-source project that uses Fish Audio speech synthesis technology to enable voice dialogue for NPCs in any game. It supports self-hosted voice servers and includes an AI coding Agent tool, with a complete GTA V example.

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rStation

rStation is a shared research laboratory platform built for AI Agents, supporting multi-agent collaboration, shared knowledge bases and experimental environments.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 1.3Images and design

MOSS-Image

MOSS-Image is an image generation and processing tool released by OpenMOSS-Team on Hugging Face Spaces, supporting text-to-image and other image-related functions.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.04Content creation

Qwen-2511-Plus-Flux.2-klein-9B

This is a Hugging Face Space based on the fusion of Qwen and Flux models, providing multimodal AI generation and conversation capabilities.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.03Search and research

embeddinggemma-2

EmbeddingGemma-2 is a text embedding model series released by Google, focused on generating high-quality text vector representations for tasks such as search, retrieval and similarity computation.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.03Search and research

Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B

Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B is an open-source large language model released by Meta Models on Hugging Face. It has 816B total parameters (42B activated) and uses a MoE architecture.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.01Video and digital humans

Omni-videos-custom-auto_prompt_high-quality

This is an AI video generation tool based on Hugging Face Spaces. It supports custom prompts and automatically optimises them to produce high-quality videos.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.01AI Agent / automation workflows

microduck-arena

MicroDuck Arena is an open-source AI Agent evaluation arena released by Pollen Robotics. It supports multi-agent interaction, battles and benchmarking.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0Video and digital humans

LTX-2.5

LTX-2.5 is an open-source video generation model released by Lightricks. It supports text-to-video and image-to-video generation and runs efficiently on consumer-grade GPUs.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0Search and research

Unlimited-OCR

Unlimited-OCR released by Baidu is an open-source OCR model that supports high-precision text recognition, especially suitable for complex scenes and multilingual text.

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Hacker News🔥 6.79Game development

Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

Gemini 4 Argon is an AI based on the Gemini model that demonstrates competitive play and benchmarking in the StarCraft game.

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neatroots

neatroots is a locally-first open-source tool for viewing, inspecting and replaying AI Agent execution records on a local machine, helping developers debug and trace issues while building Agents.

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pullboard

Pullboard is a self-developed platform that lets governed AI Agents build real products according to user-approved specifications and set rules. Another Agent performs validation before code merges to ensure compliance with the user's defined judgement criteria and taste.

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Oct 15, 2026 56 added

GitHub🔥 2.78Productivity / other

Local_AI_esp32

A language model trained from scratch that runs completely offline on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, with a touchscreen chat interface.

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frametell

Frametell is a local-first AI director agent that automatically turns your ideas and materials into engaging explainer videos, supporting any model.

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doc2harness

Doc2Harness is a benchmark framework for evaluating large language models on long-horizon coding agent tasks, providing official implementation code.

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Hugging Face models🔥 1.74Images and design

flux-3-image-klein-comfy

FLUX.3 Image Klein Comfy is a ComfyUI-adapted version of the FLUX.3 series image generation models released by Black Forest Labs, supporting efficient text-to-image tasks.

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simul-subtitle

A real-time video and live streaming subtitle tool supporting Japanese and English, with floating subtitles. It runs on Android, macOS and Windows, uses local offline speech recognition, and supports user-provided LLMs for translation (BYOK).

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Grandet

Grandet is an open-source tool that helps AI Agents automatically find and connect to the cheapest model APIs. It supports price lists from over 1800 official, inference and proxy providers, and provides Grandet Skill along with an anonymous MCP server.

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hermes-warm-compaction

Hermes Agent context engine that achieves efficient context management by having the main model write compaction handoff to a cached prompt prefix.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.06Video and digital humans

Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo

Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo is a Viggle variant based on the Qwen image model, supporting image-to-video generation and character animation.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.04Images and design

jev-decision-index

JEV Decision Index is a multimodal art decision indexing tool based on Hugging Face Spaces, used to evaluate and index multimodal generated content.

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scout

Scout is an open-source browser Agent from Outcrawl that can control the browser through natural language to complete automated tasks.

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GitHub🔥 4.52Images and design

solid-glass

Solid Glass is a design system built specifically for AI applications, emphasising material feel, physicality, tactility and a technological aesthetic.

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AI-Cross-Border-Ecommerce-Agent-Toolkit

An AI cross-border ecommerce operations agent toolbox that breaks down operational SOPs into 7 reusable AI Agent workflows, including prompts, templates and real-world examples.

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Hacker News🔥 3.95Audio / dubbing / music

pdftomp3

A tool that converts PDFs into AI-narrated audiobooks using an existing OpenAI subscription.

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Hacker News🔥 3.86Search and research

blumify

Blumify is a tool that tracks statements and shifts in opinion from AI leaders, allowing you to see how their positions on various AI topics have evolved.

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Hacker News🔥 3.84Productivity / other

Pulse Local

Pulse Local is a local budgeting app that runs on Mac, with its AI models running entirely on the user's local machine without any cloud processing.

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Hacker News🔥 3.24Search and research

Parsimony

Parsimony is an open-source benchmark that measures how much additional code AI coding models introduce when completing tasks, evaluating model conciseness.

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Graphicle

Graphicle is a Rust port of Graphify, providing memory capabilities for coding Agents.

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Hacker News🔥 2.86Productivity / other

Atticus

Atticus is a macOS voice assistant activated by holding to speak, powered by the Claude command-line tool (claude -p) to call the Claude model.

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mcd-coupon-strategist

Mai Mai Money-Saving Assistant is an ordering cost-optimisation Skill based on McDonald's MCP. It calculates the cheapest ordering options according to current store conditions and proactively alerts users to avoid combo-trap pitfalls.

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opencode-rust

opencode-rust is an open-source AI coding agent written in Rust. It provides CLI, TUI and HTTP services, and supports running AI coding agents locally without Docker.

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hermes-official-plugins

An official collection of Hermes Agent plugins maintained by Nous Research. Includes plugins for Home Assistant, Spotify and others. Install first-party plugins with one click from the Hermes plugin directory.

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xiryn

Xiryn is an open-source personal AI Agent project that can run multiple independent Agents on a local computer. Each Agent has its own Linux Docker desktop, supports any model (user must provide keys), encrypts storage, and is controlled via Telegram.

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Hacker News🔥 2.21Vibe Coding / AI Programming

Deslop

Deslop is a set of Oxlint rules designed to detect and clean up common issues and low-quality patterns in AI-generated TypeScript code.

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ai-slop-detector

A detection tool containing 120 common patterns of AI-generated content (AI slop), with Agent skills for Claude Code and Codex to identify and avoid AI-style writing.

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GitHub🔥 2.06Productivity / other

aurelio-finance

An open-source personal finance application with a built-in AI financial advisor. It supports tracking net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debt on a local computer.

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GitHub🔥 2.05Search and research

DishwasherBench

DishwasherBench is a language model benchmark game based on realistic dishwasher physics simulation. It can be played directly in the browser under the name Spotless.

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RuiC-oc-ferry

RuiC-oc-ferry is an open-source tool for forwarding OpenCode's free models to WorkBuddy, supporting isolated runtime, concurrency detection, decision caching, one-click import, and providing a local OpenAI-compatible forwarding interface.

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jevcrawl

Jevcrawl is an MCP server and command-line tool designed for AI Agents. It efficiently crawls websites and locates answer pages, claimed to be twice as likely to find answer pages as Crawl4AI while costing only one-tenth of Claude's direct crawling.

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open-intelligent-ui

Open-Intelligent-UI is an open-source project that aims to reproduce ChatGPT's Intelligent UI feature, allowing AI responses to be output in real time as interactive UIs, including maps, images, charts, drawings and interactive tools.

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MemorySync

MemorySync is a tool that provides persistent memory for AI Agents, helping agents remember context and historical information.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 1.68Video and digital humans

shorts

An AI short video generation tool based on Hugging Face Spaces that can quickly create short video content.

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GitHub🔥 1.64Productivity / other

project-maya

Project Maya is a locally run tool that supports private deployment of the GLM-5.3-Flash (321B MoE) model on personal GPUs (NVIDIA or AMD, 1 to 16 cards, Linux or Windows). It provides an engine, server, dashboard and APIs compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic, and includes quantisation tools.

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wx-bot

wx-bot is an open-source project that connects WeChat to personal AI Agents (such as Grok, Muse, Claude, etc.) and enables message exchange between WeChat and AI via the official iLink.

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Plimsoll

Plimsoll is a self-hosted code sandbox designed for securely running code generated by AI Agents.

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Hugging Face models🔥 1.11Search and research

LFM2.5-24B-A2B

LFM2.5-24B-A2B released by LiquidAI is a 24B-parameter open-source large language model based on Liquid Foundation Models, supporting efficient text generation and inference tasks.

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GitHub🔥 1.1Productivity / other

PolyStrata

PolyStrata is a tool for running large language models locally. It supports multiple models including Qwen3, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4, LFM2.5 and Gemma 4. It can be installed and run with one click on Windows and Linux, and provides a local API compatible with OpenAI/Anthropic.

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Hacker News🔥 1.09Content creation

Mira

Mira is an AI-powered walking tour tool that lets users generate personalised city strolling routes and guided experiences through natural language.

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openchart

OpenChart is an open-source trading workspace that supports integration of your favourite AI Agents for financial trading analysis and operations.

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GitHub🔥 0.83Game development

asamana

Asamana is an AI-driven emergent narrative engine for generating dynamic, open-ended stories and narrative experiences.

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ai-bot-groupmate

Estrella Bot is a QQ group AI companion bot that connects a QQ alt account to any OpenAI-compatible model (such as DeepSeek, Zhipu, Tongyi, etc.) via OneBot v11 + NapCat. It allows the AI to interject, respond to jokes and lurk like a real group member, and includes a zero-setup web console.

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gluon

Gluon is a control platform for coding agents, providing management and control capabilities for AI coding Agents.

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GitHub🔥 0.8Productivity / other

AILearningGuide

AILearningGuide is an interactive desktop application containing 51 experiments covering topics such as machine learning fundamentals, Transformer, RAG, Agent, fine-tuning and quantization.

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GitHub🔥 0.76Search and research

absent-author

Absent Author is an open-source project that provides an evidence checklist and Agent skills for detecting AI-generated papers and determining whether there is a real human author behind them.

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awesome-iran-mcp

A list collecting 19 open-source Iranian MCP servers (308 tools in total). These servers enable AI Agents to access Iranian local websites and services including Digikala, Snappfood, Jabama, MrBilit, Paziresh24, Taaghche and others, with support for pricing in Iranian Rials (Toman).

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.69Search and research

MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B

MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B is an open-source multimodal large model released by OpenBMB. It supports multimodal understanding of images, video and more, with a 35B-A3B parameter scale.

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GitHub🔥 0.68Search and research

open-academic-paper-gen

A multi-agent pipeline tool that can generate academic paper drafts grounded in real literature based on a research topic, with citation hallucination detection and claim-support checking.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.67Images and design

qwen-qwen-image-2-1-turbo

This is a Hugging Face Space image generation and processing demo application based on Qwen2.1-VL-Turbo.

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GitHub🔥 0.64Content creation

STC-Simplified-Technical-Chinese

STC Concise Technical Chinese is a Chinese writing specification project designed for AI. It includes writing rules, a specialised dictionary and a command-line tool to help AI Agents write and check standardised technical Chinese text.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.54Search and research

d3

vllm-sr/d3 is an open-source model repository based on the vLLM inference engine, focused on efficient deployment and inference of large language models.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.48Images and design

LightOnOCR-3-Demo

LightOnOCR-3-Demo is an open-source OCR demonstration space released by LightOn, supporting high-accuracy document text recognition and extraction.

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Hugging Face models🔥 0.37Search and research

Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0

A 2-bit GGUF quantised model based on Qwen3.8-27B, with a size under 8GB. It focuses on preserving tool-calling capability and can be run directly with llama.cpp.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.36Images and design

Krea-2-Turbo_v2

Krea-2-Turbo_v2 is a Hugging Face Spaces-based AI image generation tool that supports text-to-image and image editing.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.26Images and design

iris-3b

Iris-3B is a 3B-parameter multimodal AI model released by Sperid Labs, supporting image understanding and generation-related tasks.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.23Search and research

model-pulse

Model Pulse is a Hugging Face Space for real-time monitoring and visualisation of performance, updates and trends across various open-source large language models.

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seu-handbook-skill

An open-source project that converts the Southeast University Undergraduate Handbook (2025) into a local Agent Skill. It splits the full regulations into individual articles with traceability, structures frequently used bonus/award/GPA tables, and handles information that changes annually from official sources.

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Hugging Face Spaces🔥 0.13Images and design

minimax-h3-360-orbit

Minimax-H3-360-Orbit is an interactive demo based on Hugging Face Spaces that supports viewing and manipulating 3D models from a 360-degree orbital perspective.

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