OpenBMB
OpenBMB ranks #34 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 3 ranked models. Its best model is MiniCPM5-2B at 49.3 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in knowledge. 3 of its 17 models ship open weights. It has shipped 5 dated releases, roughly one every 105 days; the last was 7 Sept 2026, so the next would be due between 9 Nov 2026 and 1 Feb 2027 on that pattern.
- Provider rank
- #34
- by best model
- Best index
- 49.3
- MiniCPM5-2B
- Ranked models
- 3
- 3 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
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Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
- OpenBMB3
Next release
Over the last two years OpenBMB shipped 5 distinct models, one every 105 days on median. The latest arrived on 7 Sept 2026.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 9 Nov 2026 and 1 Feb 2027.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Models
Every OpenBMB model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MiniCPM5-2Bopen | 49.3±5 | – | – | – | 131k | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 |
| 2 | MiniCPM5-1Bthinkingopen | 44.0±8 | – | – | – | 128k | 2026-05-25 | 2026-05-25 |
| 3 | MiniCPM-V 4.6 1.3Bopen | 36.3±5 | – | – | – | 262k | 2026-05-11 | 2026-05-11 |
| 4 | Minicpm V 2.6 | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-08-03 | 2026-10-19 |
| 5 | Llava 1.6 34B | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-19 |
| 6 | Llava Onevision Qwen2 72B Ov | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-19 |
| 7 | LLaVA-OneVision 72B | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-08-06 | 2024-08-06 · stale |
| 8 | Minicpm3 4B | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 9 | Minicpm3 4B Fc | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10 | LLaVA-1.5 7B | – | – | – | – | – | 2023-10-05 | – |
| 11 | LLaVA-1.6 Mistral 7B | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-01-31 | – |
| 12 | LLaVA-1.6 Vicuna 13B | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-01-31 | – |
| 13 | LLaVA-1.6 Vicuna 7B | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-01-31 | – |
| 14 | LLaVA-Video-72B-Qwen2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-09-02 | – |
| 15 | LLaVA-Video-7B-Qwen2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-09-02 | – |
| 16 | LLaVA-Video-7B-Qwen2-TPO | – | – | – | – | – | 2025-01-19 | – |
| 17 | MiniCPM-o-2_6 | – | – | – | – | – | 2025-01-12 | – |
Latest news
- MiniCPM5-2B Beats Qwen3.5-4B by 13 Points [2026] - tech-insider.orgtech-insider.org · 23 Sept 2026
- China's OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B, Beating Every Open Model Under 4BStartup Fortune · 8 Sept 2026
- OpenBMB MiniCPM-Robot Embodied AI Model Series Opens a New Fight Over Small Robot Brainsremio · 20 Jul 2026
- JustRL-II-base-model: OpenBMB's quiet pre-RL checkpoint dropOrcaRouter · 9 Sept 2026
- What Is MiniCPM5-1B? A Practical Guide to OpenBMB’s 1B On-Device Language ModelKingy AI · 28 May 2026
- This Half-Gigabyte AI Model Runs Local Agents on Your PhoneDecrypt · 26 May 2026
- MiniCPM5-2B launches as open source and beats Qwen3.5-4B on averagePasquale Pillitteri · 20 Sept 2026
- OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B: A 2.52B Dense Model Averaging 53.9 Across 34 Benchmarks and Built to Run On DeviceMarkTechPost · 7 Sept 2026