June 2026 Hugging Face Top Models | Generated by AI
Question: What are the hot/trending models on Hugging Face right now (June 2026)?
Answer:
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash took the #1 trending slot within one week of its release, and Chinese open-weight models now hold five of the top ten slots — the highest concentration ever recorded on HF.
Here’s the full top 20 snapshot:
| Rank | Model | Vendor | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | DeepSeek License | MoE, ~71B active |
| 2 | Qwen 3.7 (flagship) | Alibaba | Qwen License | |
| 3 | Gemma 4 (31B Dense) | Apache 2.0 | Permissive commercial | |
| 4 | Llama 4.5 Maverick | Meta | Llama Community | |
| 5 | GLM-6 (flagship MoE) | Zhipu AI | MIT-modified | |
| 6 | DeepSeek V4.1 smaller variants | DeepSeek | DeepSeek License | |
| 7 | Llama 4.5 Scout | Meta | Llama Community | |
| 8 | Qwen 3.7 Coder | Alibaba | Qwen License | |
| 9 | Qwen 3.7 VL (vision) | Alibaba | Qwen License | |
| 10 | Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot AI | MIT-modified | |
| 11 | Mistral Small 3.x | Mistral AI | Apache 2.0 | |
| 12 | Hunyuan Large 3 | Tencent | Custom open | |
| 13 | Yi-Lightning 2 | 01.AI | Apache 2.0 | |
| 14 | Phi-4 series | Microsoft | MIT | |
| 15 | FLUX 1.1 Pro | Black Forest Labs | Custom commercial | Image gen |
| 16 | Stable Diffusion 4 | Stability AI | Custom open | Image gen |
| 17 | Whisper v3 Turbo | OpenAI | MIT | Audio |
| 18 | Sentence-Transformers v3 | Multiple | Apache 2.0 | Embeddings |
| 19 | NV-Embed v3 | NVIDIA | — | Embeddings |
Key signals for you:
- The June 2026 Chinese frontier wave shipped six competitive releases within two weeks — Qwen 3.7, DeepSeek V4.1, Hunyuan Large 3, ERNIE 5.1, Doubao Pro, GLM-6 — open-weight releases from that wave drove the trending concentration.
- Gemma 4 holds strong at #3 largely due to Apache 2.0 commercial clarity.
- Embedding models (NV-Embed, BGE-M3, Sentence-Transformers) dominate the long-tail of downloads even if not top-10 in velocity.
For your use case — you’re already on deepseek-v4-flash (basically #1 here). Kimi K2.6 is worth watching if you haven’t tried it (Moonshot AI, MIT-ish license). GLM-6 is Zhipu’s MoE flagship and has been strong on Chinese benchmarks but also competitive on code. Qwen 3.7 Coder at #8 is relevant if you’re building coding agents.
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