Models

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.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Voxtral is Mistral AI's family of speech-understanding models, released on 15 July 2025 in 24B and 3B sizes under Apache 2.0; it transcribes long audio, answers questions about it, and turns spoken requests into function calls.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy are xAI's models from July 2025. Grok 4 has a 256,000-token context and was trained with reinforcement learning at pretraining scale, while Heavy runs parallel test-time compute.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useMultimodal

SenseNova V6.5 is SenseTime's enhanced multimodal model, announced in July 2025, built around interleaved image-text reasoning and powering an agent upgrade of the Raccoon assistant.

ChinaAgents & tool useMultimodal

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.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

Seedance 1.0 is a video-generation model from ByteDance Seed, announced in June 2025. One model handles text-to-video and image-to-video, produces 1080p multi-shot clips, and ranked first on two Artificial Analysis leaderboards.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

ByteDance Seed's general-purpose model series, announced on 11 June 2025 as Doubao Large Model 1.6, combining multimodal input, a 256K context window and a mode that decides per prompt whether to reason before answering.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

Apple Foundation Models (2025) are the second generation of Apple's models. They add image understanding and a mixture-of-experts server design, and they open an on-device model to developers through the Foundation Models framework.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsMultimodal

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.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useReasoning

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.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

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.

Large language modelsEnterpriseCode

Falcon-H1 is a family of open-weight language models that runs Transformer attention and state space layers in parallel, released in sizes from 0.5B to 34B parameters under the Falcon-LLM Licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

Kling 2.1 is a Kuaishou video generation model released at the end of May 2025 in three tiers — 720p Standard, 1080p High Quality and 1080p Master — with claimed gains in motion, physical simulation and prompt responsiveness. It was superseded by Kling 2.5 Turbo.[^1][^2][^3]

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable model of the first Nova generation, available in Amazon Bedrock from 30 April 2025. It handles text, images and video with a 1-million-token context window, and also serves as a teacher model for smaller Nova models.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

ERNIE 4.5 Turbo is Baidu's multimodal large language model released on 25 April 2025, presented as a faster successor to ERNIE 4.5 with lower hallucination rates and sharply cut API prices.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

π0.5 is a vision-language-action model from Physical Intelligence, released in April 2025, built to generalize to unfamiliar homes and trained by co-training on many kinds of robot and web data.

Deep learningFoundation modelsMultimodal

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.

Large language modelsReasoningCode

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

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.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

SenseTime's SenseNova V6 is a native mixture-of-experts multimodal foundation model with over 600 billion parameters, released on 10 April 2025 in general, reasoning and real-time interactive variants.

Large language modelsChinaMultimodal

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

Llama 4 Behemoth is a very large Meta model previewed on 5 April 2025 as the teacher for the Llama 4 family. It was never publicly released.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsMultimodal

Llama 4 Maverick is a mixture-of-experts model Meta released alongside Scout on 5 April 2025, with 400 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context. Its ranking on LMArena was later questioned.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

Llama 4 Scout is a mixture-of-experts model Meta released on 5 April 2025. It has 109 billion total parameters, 17 billion of them active for each token, and a context window of 10 million tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

Kimi-VL is an open-source vision-language model from Moonshot AI, released in April 2025. It pairs a 16B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model with a native-resolution vision encoder, so only about 3B parameters are active at a time.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

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

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.

Open sourceChinaConsumer apps

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.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

Mistral Small 3.1 is an open-weight model released by Mistral AI in March 2025 that adds image understanding and a 128K-token context window to the Small line, runs on a single consumer GPU, and was later superseded by newer Small releases.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

ERNIE X1 is Baidu's deep-thinking reasoning model released on 16 March 2025 alongside ERNIE 4.5, notable for tool use, multimodal input and low pricing, and later followed by X1 Turbo and X1.1.

Large language modelsChinaAgents & tool use

ERNIE 4.5 is Baidu's native multimodal foundation model, released on 16 March 2025 and handling text, images, audio and video. In June 2025 Baidu open-sourced ten models from the family under the Apache License 2.0.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Gemma 3 is Google's third generation of open Gemma models, released on 12 March 2025 in 1B to 27B sizes, with a 128,000-token context window, image input on the larger variants, and support for more than 140 languages at the pretrained level.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Gemini Robotics is a vision-language-action model from Google DeepMind, built on Gemini 2.0, that outputs physical actions to control robots. It was announced on 12 March 2025 alongside Gemini Robotics-ER.

MultimodalRoboticsComputer vision

A general-purpose embodied foundation model released by AgiBot on 10 March 2025, built on a Vision-Language-Latent-Action architecture. In the company's tests across five tasks it raised average success rate from 46% to 78%.

ChinaFoundation modelsMultimodal

Cohere's first vision-language model, released in March 2025 as open-weight 8B and 32B versions. It handles images and text in 23 languages and, in Cohere's comparisons, beats several much larger models, under a non-commercial licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

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

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.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

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

Helix is Figure's vision-language-action model for humanoid control, pairing a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model with a fast 80-million-parameter action policy, trained on about 500 hours of teleoperated data and run entirely on onboard GPUs.

Deep learningFoundation modelsMultimodal

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

Grok 3 and the cheaper Grok 3 mini are xAI's reasoning models from February 2025. Grok 3 added a Think mode, a 1-million-token context window and the DeepSearch research agent.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useMultimodal

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.

Large language modelsMultimodalCode

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

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

Janus-Pro is DeepSeek's January 2025 multimodal model that handles both image understanding and text-to-image generation in one system, released in 1B and 7B sizes as a stronger successor to Janus.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Doubao-1.5-pro, released by ByteDance on 22 January 2025, is a closed multimodal model built on a sparse mixture-of-experts design. It was offered through Volcano Engine at low API prices.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Kimi k1.5 is a multimodal reasoning model released by Moonshot AI on 20 January 2025, which the company said matched OpenAI's o1 in mathematics, coding and multimodal reasoning and which was trained with reinforcement learning rather than tree search or process reward models.

Large language modelsChinaMultimodal

Qwen2.5-VL is Alibaba's vision-language model family released in January 2025 in 3B, 7B, 32B and 72B sizes. It reads charts and documents, localises objects, works as a visual agent and understands videos over an hour long.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

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

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 family of open mixture-of-experts vision-language models from DeepSeek, released in three sizes from 1.0B to 4.5B activated parameters for document, chart and OCR understanding, succeeding DeepSeek-VL.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Gemini 2.0 Flash is the first model of Google's Gemini 2.0 generation, released as an experimental model in December 2024 with multimodal output and native tool calling, and made generally available in February 2025.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useMultimodal