Models

SparkDesk V2.0 is the second version of iFlytek's large language model, launched on 15 August 2023 with upgraded coding and multimodal abilities, and released alongside the iFlyCode 1.0 programming assistant.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Qwen, known in Chinese as Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问), is Alibaba's family of large language models. Its first open-weight model, Qwen-7B, was released on 3 August 2023, and the family has grown through many later versions.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Skylark, or Yunque (云雀), is ByteDance's first large language model. Released in August 2023, it powered the Doubao chatbot and was relaunched in May 2024 as the Doubao model family.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Claude 2 is the second major version of Anthropic's assistant model, released on 11 July 2023 with better performance and longer responses. It was the first Claude model open to the general public.

Large language modelsEnterpriseConsumer apps

An open-source 13-billion-parameter language model from Baichuan, released in Base and Chat versions in July 2023, trained on 1.4 trillion tokens and benchmarked against Meta's LLaMA-13B.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Phi-1 is a 1.3-billion-parameter Transformer language model for Python from Microsoft Research, which showed that filtered and synthetic "textbook quality" training data can partly substitute for model and data scale.

Large language modelsOpen sourceData & datasets

ERNIE 3.5 is a Baidu large language model announced in June 2023 as the upgrade behind the ERNIE Bot chatbot, adding a plugin architecture and, according to Baidu, outperforming ChatGPT on several benchmarked abilities.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Baichuan-7B is an open-source, 7-billion-parameter language model for Chinese and English released in June 2023, the first model from Baichuan, trained on about 1.2 trillion tokens and evaluated on Chinese and English benchmarks.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

PaLM 2 is Google's second-generation Pathways language model, announced on 10 May 2023 in four sizes and used across more than 25 Google products, including Bard.

Large language modelsEnterpriseConsumer apps

SparkDesk is iFlytek's cognitive large model, unveiled on 6 May 2023 as the company's answer to ChatGPT in education and enterprise uses, built on Huawei Ascend chips and followed by rapid version updates through 2024.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

StarCoder is an open-access code language model of about 15.5 billion parameters, released on 4 May 2023 by the BigCode project led by Hugging Face and ServiceNow.

Large language modelsOpen sourceData & datasets

Stable LM is Stability AI's family of open language models, first released in April 2023 as 3B- and 7B-parameter alpha versions under licenses that allow commercial use of the base models and research-only use of the instruction-tuned ones.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

Amazon Titan is a family of foundation models built by Amazon for Amazon Bedrock, covering text generation, embeddings and image generation. It was announced in 2023 and later succeeded by Amazon Nova.

Large language modelsEnterpriseCloud

SenseNova is SenseTime's family of foundation models, unveiled on 10 April 2023 with a chatbot, an image generator and an avatar video generator, first offered to government and corporate clients rather than the public.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

Pythia is a suite of 16 open language models from EleutherAI, ranging from 70 million to 12 billion parameters, all trained on the same data in the same order, with 154 public checkpoints from each training run.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

A lighter, cheaper and faster version of Anthropic's Claude model, released in 2023 for business use through the API and retired in November 2024.

Large language modelsEnterpriseProduct history

Claude is the AI assistant Anthropic announced on 14 March 2023, its first publicly available assistant. It was built around training AI to be helpful, honest and harmless, and it started the Claude model line.

Large language modelsEnterpriseConsumer apps

Jurassic-2 is a family of large language models released by AI21 Labs in March 2023 as the successor to Jurassic-1, offered in three sizes with instruction-tuned variants, multilingual support and task-specific APIs; it was succeeded by Jamba in 2024.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsDeveloper tools

GPT-3.5 Turbo was the chat-optimised GPT-3.5 model OpenAI released through its API on 1 March 2023, priced at a tenth of the cost of earlier models and later replaced in ChatGPT by GPT-4o mini.

Large language modelsConsumer appsProduct history

An open bilingual chat model from Zhipu AI and Tsinghua KEG with about 6.2 billion parameters, small enough to run on one consumer GPU, with weights fully open for research.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Cohere's first flagship instruction-following generative model, released in 2023 and distributed through Cohere's API and cloud marketplaces such as Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, later superseded by Command R and deprecated in 2025.

Large language modelsEnterpriseFoundation models

A pair of medical question-answering language models described in arXiv papers of 26 December 2022 and 16 May 2023; the first introduced the MultiMedQA benchmark, and Med-PaLM 2 reached up to 86.5% on MedQA.

Large language modelsSafety & governanceScience

Galactica is a large language model for science, unveiled by Meta AI and Papers with Code in November 2022. Its public demo was taken down about three days later, after users found it produced fake papers.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

GLM-130B is a 130-billion-parameter open bilingual Chinese–English dense language model from Tsinghua University's KEG group and Zhipu AI, built to give researchers an open model that matches GPT-3 at the hundred-billion scale.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

OPT-175B is a 175-billion-parameter language model from Meta AI, announced in May 2022. Meta said it was the first model of its size released with both pretrained weights and the code to train and use them.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

Flamingo is a DeepMind visual language model announced in April 2022. It takes prompts that mix images, videos and text and replies in language, learning new tasks from only a few examples.

Large language modelsResearch historyMultimodal

GPT-3.5 is the family of OpenAI language models between GPT-3 and GPT-4, released through API models such as text-davinci-002 and text-davinci-003 and underlying the first version of ChatGPT.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsProduct history

GPT-NeoX-20B is a 20-billion-parameter open autoregressive language model released by EleutherAI in February 2022, with weights under Apache 2.0 and its training code, described by its makers as the largest publicly accessible general-purpose model of its kind at the time.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

AlphaCode is a DeepMind code-generation system for competitive programming, announced in February 2022. On Codeforces contests held after its training data, it reached an estimated rank around the median participant. A Gemini-based AlphaCode 2 followed in December 2023.

Large language modelsResearch historyCode

ERNIE 3.0 Titan is a Chinese pre-trained language model with over 260 billion parameters, described by its authors as the largest dense Chinese model of its time and reported to beat state-of-the-art systems on 68 NLP datasets.

Large language modelsResearch historyChina

Gopher is DeepMind's 280-billion-parameter language model, announced in December 2021 alongside a study of what scale does to language models and a companion taxonomy of their risks.

Large language modelsResearch historyEurope

Megatron-Turing NLG 530B is a 530-billion-parameter language model announced by NVIDIA and Microsoft on 11 October 2021, then the largest monolithic transformer language model, trained on NVIDIA's Selene supercomputer with Megatron-LM and DeepSpeed combined.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsHardware & compute

Jurassic-1 is the first family of large language models from AI21 Labs, announced with the AI21 Studio developer platform in August 2021. Its largest model, Jumbo, has 178 billion parameters.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsDeveloper tools

ERNIE 3.0 is a 10-billion-parameter pre-trained language model from 2021 that trains on plain text plus a large-scale knowledge graph and fuses auto-encoding and auto-regressive networks, so one model handles both language understanding and generation.

Large language modelsResearch historyChina

GPT-J-6B is a six-billion-parameter open language model released by EleutherAI in June 2021 under the Apache 2.0 license. Its published scores sit close to GPT-3 Curie, making it a widely used free baseline for large-model research.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

LaMDA is a family of conversational language models that Google announced in 2021 and described in a 2022 paper, notable for its work on safety and factual grounding in dialogue and for later powering Bard.

Large language modelsResearch historyConsumer apps

GPT-Neo is a family of open text-generation models released by EleutherAI in March 2021 at 125M, 1.3B and 2.7B parameters, built to replicate the GPT-3 architecture and distributed with freely downloadable weights under an MIT license.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

Meena is a 2.6-billion-parameter open-domain chatbot from Google, trained end-to-end on filtered social media conversations. Its 2020 paper introduced the SSA human-evaluation metric and linked next-token perplexity to human-judged chat quality. The work was later renamed LaMDA.

Large language modelsResearch historyConsumer apps

T5 is a family of Google Transformer models that recasts every language task as text in, text out. Its 11-billion-parameter version set state of the art on several benchmarks, and the code, models and C4 dataset were released openly.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

ERNIE 2.0 is Baidu's pre-trained language model framework, published in 2019, which builds pre-training tasks incrementally through continual multi-task learning and reported results above BERT and XLNet on English and Chinese benchmarks.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

Baidu's first ERNIE pre-trained language model, released in March 2019, added entity- and phrase-level masking to BERT-style pre-training and reported state-of-the-art results on five Chinese NLP tasks.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source