Open Models April 2026: r/LocalLLaMA Declares 'Best Month of All Time' — Six Labs Ship Competitive Open Weights

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

A community-compiled chart on r/LocalLLaMA (435 upvotes, 126 comments) documents April 2026 as potentially the strongest month ever for local LLMs. Six organizations shipped open weights: Google (Gemma 4), Alibaba (Qwen 3.6), Meta (Llama 4), Mistral (Medium 3.5), Zhipu AI (GLM-5.1 744B MoE), and DeepSeek (V4). Notable: MiniMax-M2.7 switched from MIT to non-commercial license, removed from the chart.