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Please note that “top” can be subjective and based on various factors like downloads, recent interest, and performance on specific benchmarks. This list reflects a mix of widely used and influential models as of early May 2025.
1. mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1
Use Cases: Instruction following, complex reasoning, code generation, creative writing, multilingual tasks.
View on Hugging Face2. meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat-hf
Use Cases: Chatbots, dialogue generation, text summarization, question answering, content creation.
View on Hugging Face3. tiiuae/falcon-7b
Use Cases: General-purpose language modeling, text generation, summarization, translation (smaller size makes it more accessible for some applications).
View on Hugging Face4. google/flan-t5-xxl
Use Cases: Text-to-text tasks, translation, question answering, summarization, and other tasks framed as text generation.
View on Hugging Face5. TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-AWQ
Use Cases: Instruction following, creative writing, coding assistance, running efficiently on consumer hardware (AWQ quantized version).
View on Hugging Face6. Salesforce/codegen2-1B
Use Cases: Code generation, code completion, understanding and explaining code (smaller, specialized for code-related tasks).
View on Hugging Face7. EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b
Use Cases: Research, general-purpose language modeling, text generation, understanding complex text.
View on Hugging Face8. StabilityAI/stablelm-tuned-alpha-7b
Use Cases: Dialogue generation, creative writing, instruction following (tuned for helpful and harmless responses).
View on Hugging Face9. bigscience/bloom-7b1
Use Cases: Multilingual text generation, translation, research on large language models.
View on Hugging Face10. microsoft/phi-2
Use Cases: Reasoning, language understanding, code generation (smaller, but surprisingly capable for its size).
View on Hugging FaceThis list is not exhaustive and the landscape of LLMs on Hugging Face is constantly evolving. Explore the hub for many more interesting models!
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