Models

A generation of Alibaba's Qwen models released in April 2026, spanning proprietary Plus and Max versions aimed at agentic coding and open-weight models such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts with 3B active parameters.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight Moonshot AI model released in April 2026, focused on long-horizon coding, with a 262,144-token context, text and image input, and Agent Swarm scaled to 300 sub-agents.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Voxtral TTS is Mistral AI's first text-to-speech model, released in March 2026: about 4B parameters, nine languages, cloning from a three-second clip, open weights for non-commercial use and an API priced per character.

Open sourceConsumer appsGenerative models

An open reasoning vision-language-action model from NVIDIA for humanoid robots, announced in March 2026 as commercially usable and trained on large public robot manipulation datasets.

Open sourceFoundation modelsRobotics

Mistral Small 4 is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model released in March 2026 that folds instruction-following, step-by-step reasoning and agentic coding into one model, with a switch that controls how much reasoning it does.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Reka Edge is a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model from Reka AI, released on 11 March 2026, built to take images, video and text and to run locally on laptops, phones and small edge devices.

Open sourceMultimodalRobotics

Ai2's fully open 7B model, which mixes Transformer attention with Gated DeltaNet linear recurrent layers and matches its predecessor's MMLU accuracy using 49% fewer training tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceDeep learning

Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is Microsoft's 15-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model, released on 4 March 2026 under the MIT licence, built to switch between step-by-step reasoning for math and science and direct answers for image perception tasks.

Open sourceMultimodalReasoning

MiniMax-M2.7 is a 229B-parameter language model released by MiniMax in March 2026, built for agentic work and presented by the company as its first model to take part in its own improvement.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Gemini 3.1 Pro is Google's preview upgrade to Gemini 3 Pro, released on 19 February 2026, scoring a verified 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 and shipped through the Gemini API, the Gemini app and NotebookLM.

Large language modelsMultimodalReasoning

Released on 17 February 2026 with a 1M-token context window in beta, Claude Sonnet 4.6 kept the price of Sonnet 4.5 and became the default model for Free and Pro users on claude.ai.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

Qwen3.5 is a natively multimodal model family from Alibaba released in February 2026. Its open flagship, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, has 397B total parameters and 17B active per token, under Apache 2.0.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

MiniMax-M2.5 is an open-weight 229B-parameter language model released in February 2026 for agentic coding and office work, shipped alongside a faster Lightning variant and reported at the top of software-engineering benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

GPT-5.3-Codex is a coding model OpenAI released on 5 February 2026, which the company called its first model that was instrumental in creating itself and pitched for repository search, terminal commands and debugging as well as writing code.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useCode

Released on 5 February 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 was an upgrade to Anthropic's smartest model. It was the first Opus-class model with a 1M-token context window, in beta at launch, and it introduced agent teams in Claude Code.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

Step 3.5 Flash is an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts language model from StepFun, released in February 2026 with 196 billion total parameters, a 256K-token context and an Apache 2.0 license.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Kimi K2.5 is a natively multimodal open-weight model from Moonshot AI, released on 27 January 2026. It has 1 trillion total parameters, a 256K-token context and an Agent Swarm feature for parallel sub-agents.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Baichuan-M3 is a new-generation open-source medical-enhanced language model with 235 billion parameters, built on Qwen3-235B-A22B and released under Apache 2.0 in January 2026.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Gemini 3 Flash is a fast, lower-cost model in Google's Gemini 3 family, released on 17 December 2025. It scored close to Gemini 3 Pro on several benchmarks while using fewer tokens and costing far less per token.

Large language modelsConsumer appsReasoning

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 is an open family of hybrid mixture-of-experts language models, announced in December 2025 in Nano, Super and Ultra sizes, with up to one million tokens of context.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

GPT-5.2 is a model family OpenAI released on 11 December 2025, with Instant, Thinking and Pro versions and a coding variant. It was aimed at professional work such as spreadsheets and presentations.

Large language modelsEnterpriseReasoning

Molmo 2 is the second generation of Ai2's open vision-language models, released on 11 December 2025, which extends the Molmo line from still images to video with pointing, tracking and timestamped answers.

Open sourceMultimodalComputer vision

Solar Open 100B is Upstage's open-weight mixture-of-experts language model for English and Korean, released in December 2025 with 102.6 billion total parameters, 12 billion active per token, and a custom licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Devstral 2 is Mistral AI's 123B-parameter agentic coding model, released in December 2025 alongside the Mistral Vibe CLI and scoring 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified. It was deprecated in May 2026 and retired that July, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

Three small dense models from Mistral AI — 3B, 8B and 14B — released in December 2025 under Apache 2.0, each in base, instruct and reasoning variants with image understanding.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Mistral AI's flagship model of the Mistral 3 family, released in December 2025: a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 675B total parameters, open weights under Apache 2.0, and image understanding.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

DeepSeek-V3.2, released on 1 December 2025, succeeded the experimental V3.2-Exp and integrated thinking into tool use. Its companion V3.2-Speciale, which maximizes reasoning, reached gold-level results at several 2025 competitions.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

MiniMax-M2.1 is an open-weight language model released in December 2025 as the successor to M2, aimed at software engineering and multilingual coding, with a 229B-parameter checkpoint and large reported gains on coding benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

GLM-4.7 is Zhipu's open-weights language model released in December 2025, aimed at multilingual agentic coding and terminal tasks. It reports clear gains over GLM-4.6 on software-engineering benchmarks and ships under the MIT license.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

DeepSeekMath-V2, released on 27 November 2025, is a mathematical reasoning model trained to verify its own proofs. DeepSeek reported gold-level scores on IMO 2025 and CMO 2024 problems, and 118 of 120 on Putnam 2024.

Open sourceChinaReasoning

FLUX.2 is Black Forest Labs' image generation and editing model family, released on 25 November 2025, spanning hosted tiers and open-weight releases, with support for 4-megapixel output and up to 10 reference images.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Claude Opus 4.5, released on 24 November 2025, cost a third as much as Opus 4.1 per token and introduced an effort parameter that lets developers trade capability for time and cost. Claude Opus 4.6 succeeded it.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useReasoning

Olmo 3 is the third generation of the Allen Institute for AI's fully open language models, announced on 20 November 2025 in 7B and 32B dense Transformer sizes, with a 65,536-token context and all datasets openly available.

Large language modelsOpen sourceReasoning

An agentic coding model in OpenAI's GPT-5.1 family, released in November 2025. It was the first OpenAI model trained to work across multiple context windows and in Windows environments, and served as the default model in Codex until its retirement in 2026.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useCode

SAM 3 is Meta's segmentation model from November 2025. It finds, segments and tracks every instance of a concept named by a short text prompt or an example image, and Meta reported it doubles the accuracy of existing systems on this task.

Open sourceFoundation modelsData & datasets

Kimi K2 Thinking is a reasoning model released by Moonshot AI in November 2025, built on the Kimi K2 mixture-of-experts architecture and trained for native INT4 inference and long chains of tool calls.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Baidu's open-weight multimodal reasoning model from November 2025: 28B total parameters with 3B active per token, "Thinking with Images" zoom-and-tool reasoning, and Apache 2.0 weights.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

DeepSeek-OCR is an open-source model of about 3B parameters that renders long text as 2D images and reads it back from a small number of vision tokens, testing whether optical compression can stand in for very long text contexts.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Claude Haiku 4.5, released on 15 October 2025 and available to all users, offered coding performance close to Sonnet 4 at one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

A 3-billion-parameter open reasoning model from AI21 Labs, released under the Apache 2.0 licence with a hybrid Transformer-Mamba design, a 256k-token context window and local execution on phones, Macs and PCs.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

MiniMax-M2 is an open-weights mixture-of-experts language model released by MiniMax in October 2025, with 230B total and 10B active parameters, aimed at coding and agentic workflows.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

An experimental DeepSeek model released on 29 September 2025 that introduced DeepSeek Sparse Attention to make long-context training and inference cheaper, shipped with open weights and an immediate API price cut.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Claude Sonnet 4.5, released on 29 September 2025, was a drop-in replacement for Sonnet 4 at the same price. Anthropic reported that it could stay focused on complex tasks for more than 30 hours.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

An open-source image generation model from Tencent that handles image understanding and generation inside a single autoregressive mixture-of-experts framework; its code, weights and technical report were released in September 2025.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

An OpenAI model released in September 2025 that adapted GPT-5 for agentic coding, served as the default model in Codex, and was shut down in July 2026.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useCode

A 1.7-billion-parameter reasoning model released by Writer in September 2025, fine-tuned from Nvidia's OpenReasoning-Nemotron-1.5B, with strong competition-mathematics scores and an Apache 2.0 licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

A deep-thinking mixture-of-experts model from Baidu with 21 billion total and 3 billion active parameters, a 128K context window and an Apache 2.0 license, open-sourced in September 2025 alongside ERNIE X1.1.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

A 1.7-billion-parameter English model from Writer, fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-1.5B and released under Apache 2.0 with a 131,072-token context window, presented around grade-school mathematics.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

LongCat-Flash is a 560-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model from Meituan's LongCat team, which activates roughly 27 billion parameters per token and was released with open weights under the MIT license.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

GLM-4.6 is an open-weights large language model released by Zhipu in late September 2025, with a 200K-token context window, about 357 billion parameters and an MIT licence, aimed at coding, reasoning and agent work.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Qwen3-Omni is an open-weight multimodal model released by the Qwen team in September 2025 under Apache 2.0, able to take in text, audio and video and to answer in text or speech across many languages.

Open sourceChinaConsumer apps

Qwen3-VL is Alibaba's open vision-language model family, released in September 2025 under Apache 2.0. Its 235B flagship handles long video, GUI operation and 2D and 3D grounding.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Qwen3-Next is an open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released in September 2025 under Apache 2.0. It has 80B total parameters, only 3B active per token, and a hybrid attention design later used in Qwen3.5.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

A fast reasoning model from xAI for agentic coding, released in August 2025 with low per-token pricing, a 70.8% score on SWE-bench Verified, and integrations with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline and other coding tools.

Agents & tool useReasoningDeveloper tools

DeepSeek-V3.1, released on 21 August 2025 under the MIT License, was DeepSeek's first hybrid model, supporting both a thinking mode and a non-thinking mode in one set of weights. It has 671 billion total parameters, with 37 billion activated per token.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Nemotron Nano 2 is NVIDIA's 9B reasoning model, built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer design and released with open weights and most of its training data; NVIDIA reports much higher throughput than similar-sized models.

Large language modelsOpen sourceReasoning

A vision-language model released by Zhipu on 11 August 2025, built on GLM-4.5-Air and covering image, video, long-document and GUI tasks; Zhipu reports state-of-the-art results at its scale on 42 benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal