Models

SenseTime's multimodal agent model, announced in Hong Kong in November 2026, aimed at office work and design generation: long-term memory, task execution, and output ranging from PPTX decks to Blender 3D scenes.

ChinaEnterpriseAgents & tool use

GO-3 Preview is an embodied AI model that AGIBOT announced in October 2026, built on a World Reasoning Action Model; the company says it topped three embodied AI benchmarks and will fully open-source it by the end of 2026.

ChinaFoundation modelsRobotics

Kling 4.0 is a text-to-video generation model released to all users in October 2026, adding longer shots, multi-image references and more convincing physical motion, alongside a faster Flash variant built for high-volume work.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Claude Haiku 5.5, released on 7 October 2026, is the third model in the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic called it the cheapest, fastest and most capable small model it had released, at about 75% less cost to run on average.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

Kolibri-1 is Aleph Alpha's open-weight German–English mixture-of-experts model: 78.1 billion parameters with 3.46 billion active per token, a 1,048,576-token context window, and weights that fit on a single H200 or B200.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

PixVerse R2 is a real-time world model announced on 22 September 2026, an upgrade to R1 that keeps a navigable world generating while the user moves inside it and holds state across a session.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Claude Opus 5.5, released on 22 September 2026, is the first model in Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic said it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work, at about 40% lower cost than Opus 5.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

Vidu S2 is a two-part video generation system: S2-Avatar renders interactive digital characters at 720p in real time, and S2-Editing transforms live video streams. Both also produce stereo views for immersive displays.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Granite 4.2 is IBM's open-weight model generation, released on 25 August 2026 in 3B, 8B and 30B dense sizes, with a reasoning-capable 8B model under the permissive Apache-2.0 licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Seedance 2.5, released by ByteDance in July 2026, is an audio-video joint generation model that makes clips of up to 30 seconds per pass, accepts many multimodal references, and supports editing parts of a scene without regenerating the whole clip.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

FLUX 3 is a multimodal model family from Black Forest Labs, announced on 23 July 2026, covering images, video, audio and action prediction. Its video model became generally available on 4 August 2026.

MultimodalRoboticsGenerative models

The fastest model in Google's Gemini 3.5 series, released in July 2026 for high-throughput agentic work, and slated to replace gemini-3.1-flash-lite and take over traffic from gemini-2.5-flash.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

Robostral Navigate is Mistral AI's first embodied navigation model: an 8-billion-parameter system that steers wheeled, legged or flying robots from RGB images and a plain-language instruction, using a single ordinary camera and no depth sensor.

RoboticsComputer visionEurope

Muse Image and Muse Video are Meta Superintelligence Labs' first media generation models, announced on 7 July 2026. Muse Image launched immediately, and Muse Video entered early preview.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Vidu S1 is Shengshu's real-time interactive video generation model, released in July 2026. It takes spoken commands as control input, runs on consumer GPUs at 540p and up to 42 frames per second, and keeps generating without drift.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft AI's flagship reasoning model, launched on 2 June 2026 at Microsoft Build. Microsoft said it was preferred to Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind human evaluations, and that developers could fine-tune its weights for the first time.

Large language modelsEnterpriseFoundation models

Stability AI's 2026 audio generation family: three open-weight models and a hosted flagship, able to generate and edit music and sound effects up to about six minutes long.

Open sourceEnterpriseGenerative models

Command A+ is Cohere's open-source mixture-of-experts language model, released on 20 May 2026 under the Apache 2.0 licence with 218 billion total and 25 billion active parameters, aimed at sovereign and critical-infrastructure deployments.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Gemini Omni Flash is a Google DeepMind generative model that makes and edits video from text, image, audio and video prompts. Video creation arrived in the Gemini app on 19 May 2026, and the model later became the recommended replacement for Google's Veo 3.1 API previews.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

π0.7 is a general-purpose robot manipulation model from Physical Intelligence that matches fine-tuned specialists on a wide range of dexterous tasks while following new language commands and recombining learned skills in unfamiliar settings.

Foundation modelsMultimodalRobotics

A speech-to-text model from Microsoft AI released in April 2026 that transcribes 25 languages, runs Copilot's Voice Mode, and starts at $0.36 per hour of audio.

EnterpriseMultimodalCloud

MAI-Image-2 is Microsoft AI's second-generation text-to-image model, released to developers on 2 April 2026 in Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground, with faster generation and stronger lighting, skin tones and in-image text.

EnterpriseGenerative modelsCreative tools

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

Midjourney V8, released as an alpha on 17 March 2026, generates images about five times faster than earlier versions, adds a native 2K mode, and improves rendering of text inside images.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

NVIDIA previewed Isaac GR00T N2, a next-generation robot foundation model built on a world action model architecture that the company says more than doubles success on new tasks compared with leading VLA models.

Foundation modelsRoboticsHumanoid robots

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

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

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

Nano Banana 2 is Google's product name for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, an image generation and editing model in the Gemini API, released in preview on 26 February 2026 and later replaced by Nano Banana 2.1.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

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

Kling 3.0 is Kuaishou's video and image model series, launched on 5 February 2026 as four models. It generates up to 15 seconds of video with simultaneous audio, adds multi-shot generation and supports native 4K output.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

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

An audio-video generation model from Volcano Engine, announced on 18 December 2025, that produces picture, voices, music and ambient sound together and keeps them in millisecond-level sync.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

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

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

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

Kling 2.6 is a Kuaishou video generation model released in December 2025 that produces visuals, voiceover, sound effects and ambient audio in a single pass, with clips capped at 10 seconds.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative 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

Kling O1 is a video model that Kuaishou announced on 1 December 2025. The company described it as the first unified multimodal video model: text, image, video and subject inputs go into one engine used both for generation and for editing.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Runway Gen-4.5 is a video generation model released in December 2025 that topped the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard and later gained native audio, multi-shot editing and a role as the base for Runway's GWM-1 world model.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

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

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) is Google's image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro, announced on 20 November 2025. It renders legible text, pulls live information from Search, and outputs up to 4K.

EnterpriseGenerative modelsCreative tools

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

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

A robot model from Physical Intelligence trained on demonstrations, human corrections and its own autonomous experience, reported to make espresso, fold laundry and assemble boxes with over 90% success.

Foundation modelsRoboticsReasoning

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

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

Veo 3.1 is an October 2025 update to Google's Veo 3 video model, adding audio across Flow's features plus new editing tools; its API previews were retired in October 2026.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

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

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.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

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.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsSafety & 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

A pair of robotics models announced by Google DeepMind in September 2025: Gemini Robotics 1.5, a vision-language-action model that reasons in natural language before it moves, and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, an embodied-reasoning planner that can call tools.

Agents & tool useMultimodalRobotics

Ray3 is a video generation model released by Luma AI on 18 September 2025 and described by the company as the first reasoning video model, with HDR output, native 1080p and a neural upscaler to 4K.

MultimodalReasoningGenerative models

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 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