Models

Kling 2.0 is Kuaishou's AI video generator, launched globally in April 2025 and billed by the company as the world's most powerful, with a multimodal editing feature and the Multi-modal Visual Language concept.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Seedream 3.0 is ByteDance Seed's Chinese–English image-generation foundation model of 2025, improving on Seedream 2.0 in prompt alignment, Chinese text rendering and native 2K output. Seedream 4.0 succeeded it in September 2025.

ChinaGenerative modelsCreative tools

A speech-to-speech foundation model in Amazon's Nova family, announced on 8 April 2025, which handles recognition, understanding and speech generation in a single model rather than a chain of separate ones.

Agents & tool useMultimodalGenerative models

Midjourney V7 is an image generation model released as an alpha to Midjourney's community on 4 April 2025, the first of the company's models to have personalization on by default and the first to add a cheap, fast Draft Mode.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Runway Gen-4 is a video generation model released on 31 March 2025 that keeps characters, locations and objects consistent across shots, working from reference images and text instructions rather than per-project training.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Hunyuan-T1 is Tencent's deep-reasoning model, officially released on 21 March 2025 and built on the Hunyuan-TurboS base. Tencent did not release its weights.

Large language modelsChinaReasoning

Isaac GR00T N1 is an open foundation model for humanoid robots that NVIDIA announced on 18 March 2025. It is designed to be post-trained for a specific robot or task, and it pairs a planning model with quick motion control.

Open sourceFoundation modelsRobotics

Hunyuan Turbo S is a fast-thinking model released by Tencent on 27 February 2025, built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer design with 560 billion total parameters. Its weights were not released.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Wan2.1 is Alibaba's open-source video generation model family, released on 25 February 2025 under Apache 2.0. It creates videos from text or images and can render Chinese and English text.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Step-Audio is an open family of speech-interaction models released by StepFun on 17 February 2025. It includes Step-Audio-Chat, with 130 billion parameters, and Step-Audio-TTS-3B.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Step-Video-T2V is an open text-to-video model with 30 billion parameters. StepFun released its weights, code, a Turbo variant and a technical report under the MIT license on 17 February 2025.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Qwen2.5-Max is Alibaba's large mixture-of-experts model, announced in January 2025. It was offered through Qwen Chat and the Alibaba Cloud API, and its weights were not released.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Hunyuan3D 2.0 is Tencent's large-scale system for generating high-resolution textured 3D assets: a shape diffusion transformer plus a texture model, released with code and pretrained models on 21 January 2025 alongside its technical report.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

NVIDIA Cosmos is a platform of world foundation models that generate physics-based video to train robots and autonomous vehicles, released as open-weight models in January 2025.

Open sourceFoundation modelsRobotics

Veo 2 is a video-generation model Google announced on 16 December 2024, emphasising real-world physics and human movement, with outputs up to 4K that can extend to minutes.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

A version of OpenAI's o1 that spends more compute before answering, launched on 5 December 2024 inside the $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan and added to the API on 19 March 2025.

Large language modelsConsumer appsReasoning

Genie 2 is a foundation world model from Google DeepMind, announced on 4 December 2024, that turns a single prompt image into a playable 3D environment that a person or an AI agent can explore with keyboard and mouse controls.

Agents & tool useGenerative modelsSimulation

HunyuanVideo is Tencent's open-source text-to-video generation model, with over 13 billion parameters, released in December 2024. Running it locally needs at least 60GB of GPU memory.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Amazon Nova is Amazon's family of foundation models, introduced on 3 December 2024 and offered exclusively in Amazon Bedrock. It spans text understanding models from Micro to Pro, plus Canvas for images and Reel for video, and was succeeded by Nova 2 in December 2025.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

Kling 1.6 is a December 2024 upgrade to Kuaishou's Kling video generation model, with better handling of motion and camera instructions in prompts and improved visual quality; it was succeeded by Kling 2.0 in April 2025.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

π0 is a generalist robot policy from Physical Intelligence, built by adapting a 3-billion-parameter vision-language model with flow matching so one model can output fast, continuous motor commands for dexterous manipulation.

Deep learningFoundation modelsMultimodal

A family of text-to-image models from Stability AI, announced in October 2024: the 8.1-billion-parameter Large, a 4-step Turbo variant and the 2.5-billion-parameter Medium, released under a community licence.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Movie Gen is a set of media foundation models Meta premiered on 4 October 2024. It covers video generation, personalised video, precise video editing and audio generation, and was not released publicly.

Foundation modelsGenerative modelsCreative tools

A closed text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs, released on 2 October 2024 and available only through an API. Black Forest Labs said it generates six times faster than its predecessor, and it reached the top of the Artificial Analysis image arena leaderboard.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

Hunyuan Turbo is Tencent's large language model, released on Tencent Cloud in September 2024 and tuned for lower training and serving costs. It was succeeded in February 2025 by Hunyuan Turbo S, which cut API prices further.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

Kling 1.5 is a September 2024 version of Kuaishou's video generation model, adding 1080p output, a Motion Brush, and quality improvements before being succeeded by Kling 1.6 in December 2024.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

CogVideoX is an open-source family of text-to-video models from Zhipu AI and Tsinghua University, released starting in August 2024 and derived from the earlier open-source CogVideo.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

FLUX.1 is a family of 12-billion-parameter text-to-image models released by Black Forest Labs on 1 August 2024 in pro, dev and schnell variants. The dev version is open-weight, and the variants carry different licenses.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

AlphaProof is a Google DeepMind reinforcement-learning system that proves mathematical statements in the formal language Lean. At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad it solved three problems, and together with AlphaGeometry 2 reached silver-medal level.

ReasoningScienceSymbolic AI

A 7-billion-parameter model released by Mistral AI on 16 July 2024 for mathematical and STEM reasoning, built on Mistral 7B, openly licensed, and now listed as deprecated.

Open sourceReasoningScience

Kolors is Kuaishou's open-weight text-to-image model, released on 6 July 2024, built on latent diffusion and tuned for both Chinese and English prompts.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

ESM3 is a protein generative model announced by EvolutionaryScale in June 2024 that reasons over sequence, structure and function together, and generated a fluorescent protein estimated to sit over 500 million years of evolution away from known ones.

Open sourceFoundation modelsGenerative models

Runway's 2024 video generation model, trained jointly on video and images, with finer temporal control such as keyframing; later extended with an API, video-to-video and Act-One performance capture.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Veo is a generative video model from Google DeepMind, announced at Google I/O on 14 May 2024. Google described it as its most capable video model, able to produce 1080p clips longer than a minute and later succeeded by Veo 2.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Google's text-to-image model announced at I/O in May 2024, which Google described as its highest-quality image generator, with fewer visual artifacts and improved text rendering.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

Hunyuan-DiT is Tencent's open text-to-image diffusion transformer, built for fine-grained English and Chinese prompt understanding. Its 2024 report and weights were released publicly, and human evaluations placed it ahead of several open models but behind leading closed ones.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Octo is an open-source generalist robot policy: a transformer-based diffusion model trained on 800,000 robot trajectories that can drive a range of robots out of the box and be fine-tuned to new setups.

Open sourceDeep learningFoundation models

Cohere's 104-billion-parameter language model, announced in April 2024, is tuned for retrieval-augmented generation and multi-step tool use in business settings; it launched first on Microsoft Azure and was also released as open weights.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

Mistral Large is the French company Mistral AI's first flagship proprietary large language model, released on 26 February 2024 with a 32K-token context window, native fluency in five languages, and built-in function calling and JSON output.

Large language modelsEnterpriseCloud

A Google DeepMind generative world model with 11 billion parameters that turns text, images or sketches into controllable virtual worlds, described as the first generative interactive environment trained on unlabelled internet videos without action labels.

Research historyGenerative modelsSimulation

Stable Diffusion 3, announced by Stability AI on 22 February 2024, is a suite of 800 million to 8 billion parameter models that pairs a diffusion transformer with flow matching.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

DeepSeekMath is a 7B-parameter open language model built for mathematical reasoning and released in 2024. It reached 51.7% on the competition-level MATH benchmark without external tools, and introduced GRPO, a reinforcement-learning algorithm that uses less memory than PPO.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

AlphaGeometry is a Google DeepMind system that pairs a neural language model with a symbolic deduction engine to solve olympiad geometry problems, reaching near gold-medal level on a benchmark of 30 problems.

Open sourceReasoningScience

Midjourney V6 is a version of Midjourney's image generation model, released in alpha on 21 December 2023 and trained from scratch over nine months; its 6.1 update followed in July 2024.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

FunSearch is a method that uses a pretrained large language model inside an evolutionary loop to search for programs that solve mathematical and computational problems, rather than for answers directly. It produced new results on the cap set problem and on online bin packing.

Deep learningReasoningScience

Google's second-generation text-to-image model, released in December 2023, whose standout feature was rendering legible text and logos inside generated images.

EnterpriseGenerative modelsCreative tools

GNoME is a Google DeepMind deep-learning tool, announced on 29 November 2023, that predicts new inorganic crystals; it produced 2.2 million candidate structures, of which 380,000 were predicted to be stable.

Deep learningData & datasetsScience

Stable Video Diffusion is Stability AI's image-to-video model, released on 21 November 2023 as a research preview that turns a single still image into a clip of a few seconds.

Open sourceMultimodalGenerative models

Lyria is Google DeepMind's family of music-generation models, first announced in November 2023. It writes instrumental and vocal music from prompts, carries inaudible SynthID watermarks, and has reached users through YouTube Shorts, Vertex AI and the Gemini API.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

GraphCast is a Google DeepMind machine-learning model that makes global weather forecasts up to 10 days ahead, producing a 10-day forecast in under a minute on a single TPU and outperforming ECMWF's HRES on most tested variables.

Open sourceDeep learningScience

DALL·E 3 is OpenAI's image generation model announced on 20 September 2023 and released inside ChatGPT that October. It turned a user's idea into a detailed prompt before drawing, and was later replaced by GPT Image.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Stable Audio, launched by Stability AI on 13 September 2023, is a text-to-music and sound generator that Stability describes as its first audio product, later joined by open and enterprise versions.

EnterpriseConsumer appsGenerative models

Hunyuan is Tencent's first proprietary large foundation model, unveiled in September 2023 and offered to enterprises through Tencent Cloud. The line was later branded Hy.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

SDXL is Stability AI's open text-to-image diffusion model, announced in July 2023 with a 3.5B-parameter base model and a refiner stage, generating natively at 1024×1024. A distilled version, SDXL Turbo, cut generation down to a single step.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Pangu-Weather is a three-dimensional deep-learning model for medium-range global weather forecasting, published in Nature in 2023; on reanalysis data it produced stronger forecasts than ECMWF's operational system across all tested variables.

ChinaDeep learningScience