Week of October 19 to 25, 2026
This week in free AI
What's new in free AI this week (October 19 to 25, 2026), taken straight from the data we track. A new week starts every Monday.
Data as of .
New free models on OpenRouter
"Free" here means OpenRouter lists $0 for input and output, with rate limits. How to try one.
- Recursive: Flint Recursive. Added . Context: 262,144 tokens. Input: text.
Leaving soon
Free models OpenRouter lists with an end date in the next 14 days.
- Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 Poolside. Listed until .
- Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 Poolside. Listed until .
Headlines
- OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet Hugging Face blog,
- Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types Google DeepMind,
- Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models Hugging Face blog,
- NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required Hugging Face blog,
- How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications Hugging Face blog,
- Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium. Hugging Face blog,
- Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster Hugging Face blog,
- Southeast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion Google: AI blog,
- Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively Hugging Face blog,
- AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms Hugging Face blog,
Headlines and links only; every story belongs to its publisher.
New or updated on Fanetti AI
- AI glossary Guide,
- Check an AI answer before you trust it Guide,
- Free alternatives to Adobe Photoshop Free alternatives,
- Free alternatives to ChatGPT Plus Free alternatives,
- Free alternatives to Grammarly Pro Free alternatives,
- Free alternatives to Microsoft 365 Copilot Free alternatives,
- Free alternatives to Otter.ai Pro Free alternatives,
- Free vs paid AI: what you actually get Guide,
- How to pick an AI model Guide,
- How to read AI benchmarks Guide,
- How to spot a legit AI deal vs a scam Guide,
- How to try a free model on OpenRouter in 5 minutes Guide,
- Keep your personal info out of AI chats Guide,
- Make images with free AI tools, safely and fairly Guide,
- Run AI on your own computer (free and private) Guide,
- Turn meeting recordings into notes for free Guide,
- Using free AI models safely Guide,
- What is an AI benchmark? Guide,
- Which AI subscription is worth it? Guide,
- Write better prompts (with examples you can copy) Guide,
Sources: model details from OpenRouter's public model list; headlines from the feeds listed on our sources page.
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