Few new 100B-120B open models are appearing

New around the 100B-120B size range appear to have slowed down. was followed by models such as GLM-4.5-Air, Nemotron-3-Super, Qwen3.5-122B, and Mistral-Small-4-119B, but all of them are described as at least three months old. is described as about ten months old.

Recent releases are instead framed as either smaller 25B-35B models, such as Gemma4 and Qwen3.6, or much larger 200B-plus models, such as Step 3.5/3.7 Flash, , MiniMax-M3, and Nemotron-3-Ultra. The open question is whether the roughly 120B MoE model family has faded like the older 70B/80B range, or whether new releases are likely in the second half of 2026.

Key points

  • The item questions why few new 100B-120B have appeared recently.
  • , GLM-4.5-Air, Nemotron-3-Super, Qwen3.5-122B, and Mistral-Small-4-119B are named as examples in that size range.
  • Recent releases are described as clustering around either 25B-35B models or 200B-plus models.
  • The main question is whether the roughly 120B MoE category is fading or will return in the second half of 2026.
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