Models

LFM3-Omni-2B is Liquid AI's first omni-modal model in the LFM3 family: one 2.17-billion-parameter model that reads text, images, video and audio and answers in text or speech.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

Claude Sonnet 5.5, released on 28 September 2026, is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family and Anthropic's fastest Sonnet to date. It costs $2 and $10 per million tokens, with cache reads halved in October 2026.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

GPT-Live-1 is OpenAI's full-duplex voice model family, launched 8 July 2026, which lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time and replaced the earlier chained speech pipeline in ChatGPT Voice.

Agents & tool useConsumer appsMultimodal

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

Claude Sonnet 5, released on 30 June 2026, is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model. It can make plans, use browsers and terminals, and run autonomously, at an introductory price of $2 and $10 per million tokens.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

Apple Foundation Models 3 (AFM 3), published on 8 June 2026, is a family of five models: two on-device models, including a sparse 20B multimodal model, and three cloud models, one of which is optimised for NVIDIA GPUs.

Large language modelsConsumer appsFoundation models

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's first Gemini 3.5 model, announced on 19 May 2026 and built for agentic and coding work; it became the default model in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Search.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

GPT Image 2 is OpenAI's image generation and editing model released on 21 April 2026, also presented as ChatGPT Images 2.0. It succeeded GPT Image 1 and was followed within months by the Sunburst and Flare model lines.

Consumer appsCreative toolsImage generation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

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

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.

Open sourceChinaConsumer apps

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.

Large language modelsConsumer appsFoundation models

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.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Genie 3 is Google DeepMind's general-purpose world model, announced on 5 August 2025. It turns text prompts into interactive 720p environments that can be navigated in real time at 24 frames per second, and was released as a limited research preview.

Agents & tool useGenerative modelsSimulation

HunyuanWorld 1.0 is Tencent's open-source model for generating explorable, mesh-exportable 3D worlds from text or images. Released in July 2025, it was followed by a series of lighter and faster versions.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

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

Skild Brain is Skild AI's general-purpose foundation model for robots, trained in a universe of 100,000 different machines and meant to be fitted to existing hardware rather than built for one task.

EnterpriseDeep learningFoundation models

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

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.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

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.

Deep learningFoundation modelsScience

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.

Large language modelsConsumer appsReasoning

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.

Consumer appsGenerative 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

Isaac GR00T N1 is an open foundation model for humanoid robots that NVIDIA announced on 18 March 2025. It is designed to be post-trained for a specific robot or task, and it pairs a planning model with quick motion control.

Open sourceFoundation modelsRobotics

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.

Large language modelsConsumer appsFoundation 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

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

NVIDIA Cosmos is a platform of world foundation models that generate physics-based video to train robots and autonomous vehicles, released as open-weight models in January 2025.

Open sourceFoundation modelsRobotics

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

Genie 2 is a foundation world model from Google DeepMind, announced on 4 December 2024, that turns a single prompt image into a playable 3D environment that a person or an AI agent can explore with keyboard and mouse controls.

Agents & tool useGenerative modelsSimulation

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

A small, low-cost language model OpenAI released on 18 July 2024, priced far below GPT-4o and reported at 82% on MMLU; it replaced GPT-3.5 Turbo in ChatGPT on launch day.

Large language modelsConsumer appsMultimodal

SmolLM is a family of small language models with 135M, 360M and 1.7B parameters, released openly by Hugging Face in July 2024 for on-device use and trained on a purpose-built corpus of generated textbooks, code and filtered web text.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

Claude 3.5 Sonnet, released on 20 June 2024, was the first model of the Claude 3.5 family. It ran twice as fast as Claude 3 Opus at the mid-tier price and powered the new Artifacts and Projects features.

Large language modelsEnterpriseConsumer apps

Apple Foundation Models (AFM, 2024) are the first generation of the models behind Apple Intelligence: a roughly 3-billion-parameter on-device model and a larger server model that runs in Private Cloud Compute.

Large language modelsConsumer appsFoundation models

ERNIE 4.0 Turbo is a large language model Baidu released in June 2024 as a faster, cheaper upgrade to ERNIE 4.0, sitting between ERNIE 4.0 and ERNIE 4.5 in the company's model line.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Baichuan 4 is a closed large language model released by the Chinese company Baichuan on 22 May 2024, the company's first multimodal model and the engine behind its first AI assistant, Baixiaoying.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Octo is an open-source generalist robot policy: a transformer-based diffusion model trained on 800,000 robot trajectories that can drive a range of robots out of the box and be fine-tuned to new setups.

Open sourceDeep learningFoundation models

Phi-3 is Microsoft's family of small language models, launched in April 2024 with Phi-3-mini, a 3.8-billion-parameter model small enough to run on a phone.

Large language modelsOpen sourceConsumer apps

Claude 3 Sonnet was the middle model of Anthropic's Claude 3 family, announced on 4 March 2024. It powered the free tier of claude.ai, offered a 200K-token context window, and was retired on 21 July 2025.

Large language modelsEnterpriseConsumer apps

A Google DeepMind generative world model with 11 billion parameters that turns text, images or sketches into controllable virtual worlds, described as the first generative interactive environment trained on unlabelled internet videos without action labels.

Research historyGenerative modelsSimulation

Midjourney V6 is a version of Midjourney's image generation model, released in alpha on 21 December 2023 and trained from scratch over nine months; its 6.1 update followed in July 2024.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Lyria is Google DeepMind's family of music-generation models, first announced in November 2023. It writes instrumental and vocal music from prompts, carries inaudible SynthID watermarks, and has reached users through YouTube Shorts, Vertex AI and the Gemini API.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

GraphCast is a Google DeepMind machine-learning model that makes global weather forecasts up to 10 days ahead, producing a 10-day forecast in under a minute on a single TPU and outperforming ECMWF's HRES on most tested variables.

Open sourceDeep learningScience