Models

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

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.

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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.

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Grok 4.1 is xAI's November 2025 update to Grok 4, aimed at emotional intelligence, creative writing and fewer hallucinations. Grok 4.1 Fast, a 2-million-token tool-calling model, followed on 19 November 2025.

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GPT-5.1 is an update to GPT-5 released by OpenAI on 12 November 2025. It added a warmer default personality with selectable styles, and its API version has been scheduled for shutdown in 2027.

Large language modelsConsumer appsReasoning

iFlytek's Spark X1.5 is a deep reasoning model released in November 2025 that runs on a domestic computing platform built with Huawei, using a 293-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts design.

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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.

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MAI-Image-1 is Microsoft's first image generation model developed entirely in-house, announced on 13 October 2025 and rolled out in Bing Image Creator and Copilot from 4 November 2025.

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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.

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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.

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Sora 2 is OpenAI's second-generation video and audio generation model, unveiled on 30 September 2025 with a social iOS app. OpenAI discontinued Sora in 2026, and its API models were scheduled to shut down in September 2026.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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

MAI-Voice-1 is Microsoft AI's speech generation model, announced in August 2025 as the first model in the MAI family and built to produce expressive, high-fidelity audio quickly.

Consumer appsMultimodalGenerative models

Microsoft AI's first foundation model trained entirely in-house, announced on 28 August 2025. A mixture-of-experts text model, it opened for public testing on LMArena and was presented as one of several specialised models Microsoft intends to coordinate.

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Nicknamed "nano-banana", Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Google's image generation and editing model released on 26 August 2025, able to blend images, keep characters consistent across edits and apply targeted natural-language edits.

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Claude Opus 4.1, released on 5 August 2025, upgraded Claude Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding and reasoning, at the same price. Anthropic later succeeded it with Claude Opus 4.5.

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An enhanced reasoning mode for Gemini 2.5 Pro that weighs multiple hypotheses in parallel before answering, announced experimentally in 2025 and known for reaching gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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Step 3 is StepFun's open multimodal reasoning model, with 321 billion total parameters and 38 billion active per token. It was released in July 2025 and uses Apache 2.0.

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Megrez2-3x7B-A3B is a mixture-of-experts language model from Infinigence AI built for on-device deployment, in which groups of adjacent layers share one pool of experts so that it stores 7.5 billion parameters but activates only 3 billion per token.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Qwen3-Coder is an open-weight family of coding models from the Qwen team; its flagship 480B-parameter model, announced in July 2025, was built and trained specifically for agentic coding tasks.

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Gemma 3n is a mobile-first open model in Google's Gemma family, released in June 2025 in two sizes that run in roughly 2–3 GB of memory and natively accept image, audio, video and text input.

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Midjourney's first video model, released on 18 June 2025, turns an existing image into a short clip of about five seconds. It was presented as the company's first step toward real-time open-world simulation.

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OpenAI o3-pro is a version of the o3 model released on 10 June 2025, which OpenAI described as its most capable model at the time and recommended for hard questions where reliability matters more than speed.

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Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, announced on 22 May 2025, were hybrid models with extended thinking. Anthropic called Opus 4 the best coding model in the world, and Claude Code became generally available the same day.

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Aurora is a foundation model for the Earth system, trained on more than a million hours of geophysical data. It outperforms operational forecasts for weather, air quality, ocean waves and tropical cyclone tracks at far lower computational cost.

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Devstral is Mistral AI's family of open-weight models for agentic coding, first released in May 2025 with All Hands AI; the first version scored 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified and could run on a single consumer GPU.

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AlphaEvolve is a Google DeepMind coding agent announced on 14 May 2025 that pairs Gemini models with automated evaluators to evolve algorithms, yielding a Borg scheduling heuristic, faster kernels and new mathematical results.

Agents & tool useReasoningScience

Seed-Coder is a family of open code models released by ByteDance Seed in May 2025, with 8B-parameter Base, Instruct and Reasoning variants trained on data filtered by language models rather than hand-written rules.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Mistral Medium 3 is a proprietary model released by Mistral AI on 7 May 2025, marketed as a mid-sized system that nears larger competitors at a much lower price and can be self-hosted on four GPUs.

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DeepSeek's open-source model for formal theorem proving in Lean 4, trained with a subgoal-decomposition pipeline; it reached an 88.9% pass ratio on MiniF2F-test and introduced the ProverBench benchmark.

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A model in Google's Gemini 2.5 family, released in preview in April 2025 and generally available that June. Google called it its first fully hybrid reasoning model, letting developers turn thinking on or off with a token budget.

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A small reasoning model released by OpenAI in April 2025 alongside o3, built for fast, low-cost reasoning; with a Python interpreter it reached 99.5% pass@1 on AIME 2025, and it was later succeeded by GPT-5 mini.

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OpenAI's April 2025 family of three API models — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano — offering a context window of over a million tokens, low prices per token and stronger coding scores. It was succeeded by GPT-5.

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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.

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Qwen2.5-Omni is Alibaba's end-to-end multimodal model that takes text, images, audio and video as input and answers with text and natural speech. The 7B version was released on 26 March 2025.

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DeepSeek-V3-0324 is a March 2025 update to DeepSeek-V3 that keeps the same model structure while raising benchmark scores and moving to the MIT License.

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GPT-4.5 is a large language model OpenAI released on 27 February 2025 under the code name "Orion". It was its largest chat model at the time, priced far above GPT-4o, and was retired from general availability within months.

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Phi-4-mini is a 3.8B-parameter text model and Phi-4-multimodal a 5.6B model that adds images and speech, both released by Microsoft in February 2025 as the small, efficiency-focused members of the Phi-4 family.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet, released on 24 February 2025, was described by Anthropic as the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, able to answer quickly or think step by step at length. It launched with Claude Code.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useReasoning

An experimental Google model released in February 2025 as part of the Gemini 2.0 family, described by Google as its best yet for coding and complex prompts, with a 2-million-token context window and tool use.

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OpenAI's small reasoning model released on 31 January 2025, offered to all ChatGPT users including the free tier, with three reasoning-effort levels and developer features such as function calling and Structured Outputs; succeeded by o4-mini in April 2025.

Large language modelsConsumer appsReasoning

iFlytek Spark X1 is a Chinese deep-reasoning model released in January 2025 and trained entirely on domestic computing hardware, with later upgrades benchmarked against OpenAI's reasoning models.

Large language modelsChinaReasoning

Megrez-3B-Omni is an open-source model from December 2024 that understands images, text and audio on end-side devices, pairing a 2.29B-parameter language backbone with SigLip and Whisper encoders for about 4B parameters in total.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

An open-weights 3-billion-parameter language model from Infinigence AI, released on Hugging Face in December 2024 under Apache-2.0, built on a Llama-2 architecture with a 32K-token context for local deployment.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

SmolLM2 is Hugging Face's second family of small language models, released in November 2024 at 135M, 360M and 1.7B parameters, with open weights and a data-centric training recipe.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

Anthropic's small, fast language model announced in October 2024 as the successor to Claude 3 Haiku, claimed to reach the intelligence of the previous flagship at Haiku-like speed and to be especially strong at coding.

Large language modelsEnterpriseCode

The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, announced on 22 October 2024, raised coding and agentic scores and introduced computer use in public beta, the first such offer from a frontier AI model.

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