NLP Lineage

Research thread · 2020 to 2026

Open weights

37 milestones sit on this thread. For 2 of them it is the main thread. The others also belong to another thread, which is named under them.

2020

  • The PileThe Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse TextMain thread: Language modellingDataset

2021

  • T0Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task GeneralizationMain thread: AlignmentModel

2022

  • OPT-175BOPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language ModelsMain thread: Scale and dataModel
  • BLOOMBLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language ModelMain thread: Language modellingModel
  • GPTQGPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained TransformersMain thread: Efficiency and infrastructureTechnique

2023

  • LLaMALLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language ModelsMain thread: Language modellingModel
  • llama.cppllama.cppMain thread: Efficiency and infrastructureInfrastructure
  • AlpacaStanford AlpacaMain thread: AlignmentModel
  • QLoRAQLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMsMain thread: Efficiency and infrastructureTechnique
  • FalconFalcon / RefinedWeb modelsMain thread: Language modellingModel
  • AWQAWQ: Activation-aware Weight QuantizationMain thread: Efficiency and infrastructureTechnique
  • Llama 2Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat ModelsMain thread: Language modellingModel
  • Mistral 7BMistral 7BMain thread: Language modellingModel
  • Mixtral 8x7BMixtral of ExpertsMain thread: Language modellingModel

2024

  • DeepSeek LLMDeepSeek LLM: Scaling Open-Source Language Models with LongtermismMain thread: Scale and dataResearch paper
  • DolmaDolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion TokensMain thread: Scale and dataDataset
  • OLMoOLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language ModelsMain thread: Language modellingModel
  • GemmaGemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and TechnologyModel
  • Llama 3Llama 3Main thread: Scale and dataModel
  • Phi-3Phi-3 Technical ReportMain thread: Scale and dataModel
  • DeepSeek-V2 / MLADeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language ModelMain thread: Efficiency and infrastructureModel
  • FineWebThe FineWeb Datasets: Decanting the Web for the Finest Text Data at ScaleMain thread: Scale and dataDataset
  • Qwen2Qwen2 Technical ReportMain thread: MultimodalityModel
  • Llama 3.1 405BThe Llama 3 Herd of ModelsMain thread: Scale and dataModel
  • DeepSeek-V3DeepSeek-V3 Technical ReportMain thread: Scale and dataModel

2025

  • DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement LearningMain thread: Language modellingModel
  • Llama 4Llama 4Main thread: Efficiency and infrastructureModel
  • Qwen3Qwen3Main thread: ReasoningModel
  • Kimi K2Kimi K2Main thread: Language modellingModel
  • gpt-ossgpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20bMain thread: ReasoningModel
  • GLM-4.5GLM-4.5Main thread: ReasoningModel
  • DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek-V3.2 with DeepSeek Sparse AttentionMain thread: Language modellingModel

2026

  • Qwen3.5Qwen3.5Main thread: ReasoningModel
  • DeepSeek-V4DeepSeek-V4Main thread: Efficiency and infrastructureModel
  • GLM-5.2GLM-5.2Main thread: ReasoningModel
  • Kimi K3Kimi K3Main thread: MultimodalityModel
  • Qwen3.8Qwen3.8Model