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

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is Nvidia's free, open-weight speech transcription model, released on 28 October 2026. It handles recordings up to an hour long, transcribes up to 40 languages and can separate up to eight speakers.

Open sourceMultimodalHardware & compute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three small dense models from Mistral AI — 3B, 8B and 14B — released in December 2025 under Apache 2.0, each in base, instruct and reasoning variants with image understanding.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

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

iFlytek's Spark X1.5 is a deep reasoning model released in November 2025 that runs on a domestic computing platform built with Huawei, using a 293-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts design.

Large language modelsChinaReasoning

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

An experimental DeepSeek model released on 29 September 2025 that introduced DeepSeek Sparse Attention to make long-context training and inference cheaper, shipped with open weights and an immediate API price cut.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

GLM-4.6 is an open-weights large language model released by Zhipu in late September 2025, with a 200K-token context window, about 357 billion parameters and an MIT licence, aimed at coding, reasoning and agent work.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

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

Nemotron Nano 2 is NVIDIA's 9B reasoning model, built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer design and released with open weights and most of its training data; NVIDIA reports much higher throughput than similar-sized models.

Large language modelsOpen sourceReasoning

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

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

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

Step 3 is StepFun's open multimodal reasoning model, with 321 billion total parameters and 38 billion active per token. It was released in July 2025 and uses Apache 2.0.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

SmolLM3 is a 3-billion-parameter open model released by Hugging Face on 8 July 2025. It supports six languages and up to 128K tokens of context, with switchable reasoning, under Apache 2.0.

Large language modelsOpen sourceReasoning

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

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

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

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

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

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

The largest model in Ai2's OLMo 2 family: a 32-billion-parameter language model released with its data, code, weights and training details, and reported to outperform GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini on academic benchmarks.

Large language modelsOpen sourceData & datasets

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

A general-purpose embodied foundation model released by AgiBot on 10 March 2025, built on a Vision-Language-Latent-Action architecture. In the company's tests across five tasks it raised average success rate from 46% to 78%.

ChinaFoundation modelsMultimodal

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

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

Helix is Figure's vision-language-action model for humanoid control, pairing a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model with a fast 80-million-parameter action policy, trained on about 500 hours of teleoperated data and run entirely on onboard GPUs.

Deep learningFoundation modelsMultimodal