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DAY 1 ON THE BOARD
#235 of 349 assistants, 315 voices so far
- TOP LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money
- TOP GRIPE
- Sometimes makes things up
Moondream 3.1
★ LIVE◆ OPEN
by Moondream
JUST LANDED · UPDATING HOURLY
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALAPIPAIDCLOSEDREASONING
RANKED #235 OF 349 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #363 OF 541 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 315 VOICES
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Moondream 3.1 is a vision-language model from Moondream, the successor to Moondream 3 Preview, with 9B total parameters and 2B active (mixture-of-experts). It handles visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and...
HAPPY8.0
3 mentions
SAD7.0
2 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 318 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Moondream 3.1 right now. Biggest gripe: getting facts right.
30 POSTS · 285 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (8 mentions)
- People find it expensive (6 mentions)
- Writing feels flat or robotic (3 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMIXED FEELINGS
4 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- WritingA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
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Qwen3.8 27B> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-03-05 · 25 UPVOTES[D] Making vision language models point to objects in image, introducing new modality to a language model
I am trying something similar as MoonDream, and Molmo. i.e make the language model capable of producing normalized coordinates of objects asked about. "Point: Dog" e.g. I am trying to make smolvlm do this as a fun project to get better understanding. I am…
- REDDIT · 2025-10-09 · 12 UPVOTESMoondream3 and Salesforce GTA-1 for UI grounding in computer-use agents
Moondream3 and Salesforce GTA-1 for UI grounding in computer-use agents
- REDDIT · 2026-10-15 · 2 UPVOTESInvestors temper Anthropic IPO valuation expectations over revenue growth slowdown, sources say
Investors temper Anthropic IPO valuation expectations over revenue growth slowdown, sources say
- REDDIT · 2026-04-06 · 2 UPVOTESMemory Ring v3.3.0 (The McCulloch-Pitts Update)
ARCHITECTURE: McCulloch's Neuron: Each LLM call now uses explicit num_ctx: 2048 per-request, forcing a clean KV cache every turn. The LLM is genuinely stateless — born, perceives, responds, releases. Memory Ring is the sole source of continuity. The model is…
- REDDIT · 2026-10-15 · 2 UPVOTESComment in r/artificial
So what are they going to call super intelligence then?
- REDDIT · 2026-10-15 · 2 UPVOTESComment in r/artificial
I have been summoning him for years. Idc what Prickly Thiel says.
- REDDIT · 2026-10-15 · 2 UPVOTESComment in r/artificial
So no thought of a separate backup? That’s so ignorant.
- REDDIT · 2026-10-15 · 1 UPVOTESUse your AI to produce scientific breakthroughs
Customize your AI to help map ALL OF EARTH'S NATURAL PROCESSES and look for novel connections & hypotheses. Yes - you can make a scientific breakthrough with your chatgpt subscription and a little bit of ingenuity.
- REDDIT · 2026-10-15 · 1 UPVOTESMamba2-8B compression research series: 27.18 MiB recurrent cache or 3.141 GB stored model data
Author disclosure: these are my independent projects. I'm sharing two Mamba2-8B research releases exploring different compression tradeoffs, each with a trained Resurface-style recall adapter. These are separate configurations; their memory numbers should not…
- REDDIT · 2026-10-16 · 1 UPVOTESHyperoptimized Engineer 2026
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- REDDIT · 2026-10-15 · 1 UPVOTESAI is turning everyone into managers... until it takes the management jobs too
tbh i've been thinking about this trajectory a lot lately. right now we're in the phase where AI is crushing technical friction, forcing devs and analysts to step up and act like project managers just to keep their seats. but that’s just a temporary pit stop.…
- GITHUB · 2026-10-15 · 0 UPVOTESUpdate OpenRouter price history (9 rows)
- opened automatically by the GitHub Action. this branch carries 9 price rows and 0 removals. new rows source model observed input (/1M) cache read (/1M) cache write 5m/1h (/1M) output (/1