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Introducing Zen LM: Open Frontier Models from Hanzo AI and Zoo Labs

GITHUB HUGGING FACE TRY ZEN CHAT Today we are announcing Zen LM — a family of open frontier models co-developed by Hanzo AI and Zoo Labs Foundation. This release marks the public launch of the Zen model catalog: 94+ models spanning text, vision, audio, and code, all built on our Zen MoDE (Mixture of Distilled Experts) architecture. Why We Built It Modern AI infrastructure concentrates capability in a small number of proprietary systems....

January 15, 2026 · 3 min · 562 words · Zen LM Team