Models

A 128B-parameter open-weights multimodal model from Mistral AI, listed in April 2026 for agentic and coding work, briefly the default in Le Chat before being superseded by Mistral Large 4.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

SenseNova U1 is SenseTime's open-weight multimodal model family, first released in April 2026 under Apache 2.0, which understands and generates images without a separate visual encoder or VAE.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

GPT-5.5 is an OpenAI model released on 23 April 2026 as GPT-5.5 Thinking and Pro, with an API version the next day. It succeeded GPT-5.4 and had a cybersecurity variant in limited preview.

Large language modelsReasoningSafety & governance

Released on 16 April 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7 added an xhigh effort level and accepted much larger images. It was the first model to test automatic blocking of high-risk cybersecurity requests.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

EXAONE 4.5 is LG AI Research's first open-weight vision language model: a 33-billion-parameter model with a 1.2-billion-parameter vision encoder, trained on documents and text, with a 256K-token context window, released in April 2026.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

Muse Spark is the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, released on 8 April 2026 as a closed model that powers the Meta AI app and meta.ai. An open-weight sibling followed later.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

GLM-5.1 is Zhipu AI's open-source large language model released in April 2026, built for coding and long-running agent tasks and notable for topping SWE-Bench Pro ahead of competing frontier models in Zhipu's own comparison.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Claude Mythos Preview, announced on 7 April 2026, is an unreleased frontier model that Anthropic made available only to restricted partners through Project Glasswing, a programme for securing critical software.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useReasoning

Gemma 4 is Google's fourth generation of open-weight models, released in April 2026 and built on the same research and technology as Gemini 3, ranging from phone-sized E2B and E4B to a 26B mixture-of-experts and a 31B dense model.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

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

GPT-5.4 is a model OpenAI released on 5 March 2026 in Thinking and Pro versions. It added built-in computer use and improved deep research, and it was the model that succeeded GPT-5.2.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

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

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is a low-cost, low-latency multimodal model in Google's Gemini 3 family, released in preview in March 2026 and generally available from May 2026 for high-frequency, lightweight tasks.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

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

Seed2.0 is ByteDance's February 2026 Doubao model series, offered in three agent-oriented sizes with low token pricing and reported benchmark results.

Large language modelsChinaAgents & tool use

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

A large language model released by iFlytek on 11 February 2026, trained entirely on domestic computing power and aimed at practical use in education, healthcare, automotive and agents.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

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

Grok 4.20 is xAI's 2026 model family, released in reasoning, non-reasoning and multi-agent versions with a 1-million-token context window; Grok 4.3 followed with the same context and the same prices.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useReasoning

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

Doubao Large Model 1.8 (Doubao-Seed-1.8) is ByteDance's Volcano Engine flagship released on 18 December 2025. It is built for multimodal agent tasks, with stronger tool calling and computer-operation abilities.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

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

GWM-1 is Runway's first general world model: an autoregressive system that generates 720p video frame by frame in real time and can be steered with camera pose, robot commands or audio.

MultimodalRoboticsGenerative models

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

Tencent's flagship model released in December 2025, offered in Think and Instruct versions, built on a 406-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture with a 256K-token context window.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Gemini 3 Deep Think is Google's enhanced reasoning mode for Gemini 3, announced with Gemini 3 Pro on 18 November 2025 and released to Google AI Ultra subscribers on 3 December 2025, with an upgraded version following in February 2026.

Large language modelsReasoningScience

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

Amazon Nova 2 is the second generation of Amazon's Nova models, released at AWS re:Invent in December 2025. Its first member, Nova 2 Lite, is a fast reasoning model available in Amazon Bedrock with a 1-million-token context.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useMultimodal

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

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.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

ERNIE 5.0 is Baidu's natively omni-modal foundation model, unveiled in November 2025 and described as having 2.4 trillion parameters. It is proprietary and was made available to enterprises and consumers in January 2026.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

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