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

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is Baidu's openly published base checkpoint from November 2026: a text-only sparse mixture-of-experts model with 280B total and 14B activated parameters, released for fine-tuning rather than as a finished assistant.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

iFlytek's Spark X2.6 is a device-cloud model family unveiled in October 2026, pairing a 293-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts cloud model with smaller on-device models and a router that decides where each task runs.

Large language modelsChinaAgents & tool use

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

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from MiniMax with about 428B total parameters, 23B activated per token, text, image and video input and up to 1M tokens of context, released on Hugging Face in October 2026.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's October 2026 open-weights model, the first in the K3.1 series, built for financial research, 3D modeling and coding. It keeps K3's mixture-of-experts scale but swaps in sparse attention layers.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, released on 10 September 2026 under the API name deepseek-flash, is a 552-billion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a causal encoder-decoder design and a 1M-token context.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

iFlytek Spark X2.5 is a 293B-A30B mixture-of-experts language model released on 7 September 2026, trained and served entirely on domestic computing power, with a 256K context window and support for more than 200 languages.

Large language modelsChinaAgents & tool use

Step 5 Preview is a preview release of StepFun's flagship foundation model: a sparse mixture-of-experts system with 600 billion total parameters, a 1-million-token context window and published weights, released in September 2026.

Large language modelsChinaAgents & tool use

Tencent Hy4 preview is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model released on 28 August 2026 with 770 billion total parameters, 49 billion active and a context of over one million tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

SenseNova U1.5 is SenseTime's open-weight, 8-billion-parameter model that handles image understanding, reasoning and native 4K generation in a single network, without separate vision encoders or VAEs. It is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

GLM-5.3 is Zhipu's open-weight language model released on 14 August 2026. It keeps the GLM-5.2 base model and gains its improvements from post-training, with reported state-of-the-art open results on agentic coding and cybersecurity benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Qwen3.8 is Alibaba's 2026 flagship line. Its open 2.4-trillion-parameter model, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, released in August 2026, has 95B active parameters and a custom license.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

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

Tencent Hy3 is an open-weight reasoning model released on 6 July 2026 under Apache 2.0, with 295 billion total parameters, 21 billion active and a 256K context.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

ByteDance Seed's Seed2.1, released in June 2026 in Pro and Turbo versions, is a Doubao-family model aimed at real productivity work, with reported gains in agent ability, coding, knowledge, reasoning and multimodal understanding.

Large language modelsChinaAgents & tool use

Zhipu's open-weight language model released in June 2026 under the MIT License, with a 1M-token context, a shared sparse-attention indexer, and higher reasoning and coding scores than GLM-5.1.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

A mixture-of-experts language model released by MiniMax in June 2026, with about 428B total parameters, a 1M-token context window and a new sparse attention scheme built for long-context and agent-style work. [^1]

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Step 3.7 Flash is a StepFun open-weights model released on 29 May 2026. It adds native image input to Step 3.5 Flash, supports a 256K context, and is licensed under Apache 2.0.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

MiniCPM5 is a series of small, dense, open-weight language models from the MiniCPM team, beginning with a 1B model released in May 2026 and followed by a 2B model in September 2026, all aimed at on-device and other resource-constrained deployment.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

ERNIE 5.1 is Baidu's large language model released on 9 May 2026, derived from ERNIE 5.0's pre-training at about 6% of the usual pre-training cost, and it placed at the top of Chinese models on LMArena text and search.[^1][^3]

Large language modelsChinaAgents & 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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