Models

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

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

OpenAI's late-2026 model family: Sol, released at DevDay on 29 September 2026, and the faster, cheaper Terra on 26 October 2026. A planned Astra version was withheld over safety concerns.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

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

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

Grok 4.5 is an xAI model built for coding, agentic and knowledge work, announced on 16 July 2026. It was trained with Cursor on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs and shipped as the default model in the Grok Build coding tool.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

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

Gemma 4 is Google's fourth generation of open-weight models, released in April 2026 and built on the same research and technology as Gemini 3, ranging from phone-sized E2B and E4B to a 26B mixture-of-experts and a 31B dense model.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

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

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

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

Devstral 2 is Mistral AI's 123B-parameter agentic coding model, released in December 2025 alongside the Mistral Vibe CLI and scoring 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified. It was deprecated in May 2026 and retired that July, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

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

A fast reasoning model from xAI for agentic coding, released in August 2025 with low per-token pricing, a 70.8% score on SWE-bench Verified, and integrations with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline and other coding tools.

Agents & tool useReasoningDeveloper tools

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

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

Qwen3-Coder is an open-weight family of coding models from the Qwen team; its flagship 480B-parameter model, announced in July 2025, was built and trained specifically for agentic coding tasks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

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

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

Apple Foundation Models (2025) are the second generation of Apple's models. They add image understanding and a mixture-of-experts server design, and they open an on-device model to developers through the Foundation Models framework.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsMultimodal

Devstral is Mistral AI's family of open-weight models for agentic coding, first released in May 2025 with All Hands AI; the first version scored 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified and could run on a single consumer GPU.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

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

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

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

Gemma 3 is Google's third generation of open Gemma models, released on 12 March 2025 in 1B to 27B sizes, with a 128,000-token context window, image input on the larger variants, and support for more than 140 languages at the pretrained level.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

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

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

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

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

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash is the first model of Google's Gemini 2.0 generation, released as an experimental model in December 2024 with multimodal output and native tool calling, and made generally available in February 2025.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useMultimodal

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

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

Yi-Coder is a family of open-source code models from 01.AI, released in September 2024 in 1.5B and 9B sizes, each with base and chat versions, covering 52 programming languages with context up to 128K tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina