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

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

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

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

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

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

Released on 16 April 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7 added an xhigh effort level and accepted much larger images. It was the first model to test automatic blocking of high-risk cybersecurity requests.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

EXAONE 4.5 is LG AI Research's first open-weight vision language model: a 33-billion-parameter model with a 1.2-billion-parameter vision encoder, trained on documents and text, with a 256K-token context window, released in April 2026.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

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

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

Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is Microsoft's 15-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model, released on 4 March 2026 under the MIT licence, built to switch between step-by-step reasoning for math and science and direct answers for image perception tasks.

Open sourceMultimodalReasoning

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

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

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

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

Molmo 2 is the second generation of Ai2's open vision-language models, released on 11 December 2025, which extends the Molmo line from still images to video with pointing, tracking and timestamped answers.

Open sourceMultimodalComputer vision

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

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

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

Baidu's open-weight multimodal reasoning model from November 2025: 28B total parameters with 3B active per token, "Thinking with Images" zoom-and-tool reasoning, and Apache 2.0 weights.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

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

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

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

UI-TARS-2 is a GUI agent trained with multi-turn reinforcement learning and released in September 2025 as an all-in-one upgrade to UI-TARS-1.5, with benchmark scores across web, desktop, Android, games and software-engineering tasks.

ChinaAgents & tool useComputer vision

Qwen3-VL is Alibaba's open vision-language model family, released in September 2025 under Apache 2.0. Its 235B flagship handles long video, GUI operation and 2D and 3D grounding.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Cohere's first reasoning model, announced in August 2025: a 111-billion-parameter hybrid model that can switch its thinking on or off, built for agentic tasks and tool use, with open non-commercial weights.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

A vision-language model released by Zhipu on 11 August 2025, built on GLM-4.5-Air and covering image, video, long-document and GUI tasks; Zhipu reports state-of-the-art results at its scale on 42 benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Command A Vision is Cohere's first vision-language model in the Command family, released in July 2025. It pairs a 112-billion-parameter Command A language model with a SigLIP2 image encoder to read images, charts and documents and answer in text.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

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

Jamba 1.7 is a July 2025 update to the Jamba family, with Large and Mini versions offering 256k-token context, nine languages, and improved grounding and steerability.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the lowest-cost model in Google's Gemini 2.5 family, built for high-throughput work such as classification and summarisation, with thinking off by default and a controllable thinking budget.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

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

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

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

ByteDance Seed's GUI agent model from April 2025 and the successor to UI-TARS. Its 7B version is open-source under Apache-2.0, and the family reports state-of-the-art results on several screen-control benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

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

xLAM-2 is Salesforce's family of large action models, from 1 billion to 70 billion parameters, trained on simulated agent–human data and tuned for multi-turn tool use rather than single-call function calling.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

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

Llama Nemotron is NVIDIA's family of open reasoning models in Nano, Super and Ultra sizes, launched in March 2025 and built on Meta's Llama 3 models.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Command A is Cohere's 111-billion-parameter model, released in March 2025 with a 256k-token context window. Cohere said it runs on two GPUs and delivers 150% higher throughput than Command R+ 08-2024.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

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

Mistral OCR is a document-understanding API released by Mistral AI on 6 March 2025 that reads text, tables, equations and embedded media across thousands of scripts and languages, and was later superseded by newer OCR versions.

EnterpriseData & datasetsComputer vision

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

AI21 Labs' March 2025 hybrid SSM-Transformer instruction-following models, released as Jamba Large 1.6 and Jamba Mini 1.6 with 256k-token context, gated open weights and benchmarks AI21 compared against Mistral Large 2, Llama 3.3 70B and Command R+.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Hunyuan3D 2.0 is Tencent's large-scale system for generating high-resolution textured 3D assets: a shape diffusion transformer plus a texture model, released with code and pretrained models on 21 January 2025 alongside its technical report.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

UI-TARS is a GUI agent model from ByteDance Seed: it takes only screenshots as input and outputs keyboard and mouse actions, reported state-of-the-art results on more than 10 benchmarks, and was released with open weights under Apache-2.0.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

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

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

Amazon Nova is Amazon's family of foundation models, introduced on 3 December 2024 and offered exclusively in Amazon Bedrock. It spans text understanding models from Micro to Pro, plus Canvas for images and Reel for video, and was succeeded by Nova 2 in December 2025.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

Pixtral Large is Mistral AI's open-weight multimodal model announced on 18 November 2024, built on Mistral Large 2, combining a 123B-parameter decoder with a 1B vision encoder and a 128K-token context window. It was retired in May 2026.

EnterpriseMultimodalComputer vision

Anthropic's small, fast language model announced in October 2024 as the successor to Claude 3 Haiku, claimed to reach the intelligence of the previous flagship at Haiku-like speed and to be especially strong at coding.

Large language modelsEnterpriseCode

The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, announced on 22 October 2024, raised coding and agentic scores and introduced computer use in public beta, the first such offer from a frontier AI model.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use