Models

Claude Fable 5.1, released on 1 September 2026, keeps the $10 and $50 per million token price of Fable 5, with cache reads 75% cheaper. Its sibling Claude Mythos 5.1 is limited to trusted-access programmes.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

Claude Opus 5, released on 24 July 2026 at $5 and $25 per million tokens, is Anthropic's most aligned model to date and its most capable generally available model for scientific research.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

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

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's Mythos-class model for general use, released on 9 June 2026. Its sibling Claude Mythos 5 is the same model with some safeguards lifted for vetted users.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

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

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

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

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

Gemini 3 Deep Think is Google's enhanced reasoning mode for Gemini 3, announced with Gemini 3 Pro on 18 November 2025 and released to Google AI Ultra subscribers on 3 December 2025, with an upgraded version following in February 2026.

Large language modelsReasoningScience

DeepSeekMath-V2, released on 27 November 2025, is a mathematical reasoning model trained to verify its own proofs. DeepSeek reported gold-level scores on IMO 2025 and CMO 2024 problems, and 118 of 120 on Putnam 2024.

Open sourceChinaReasoning

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

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

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

An enhanced reasoning mode for Gemini 2.5 Pro that weighs multiple hypotheses in parallel before answering, announced experimentally in 2025 and known for reaching gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Large language modelsReasoningScience

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

OpenAI o3-pro is a version of the o3 model released on 10 June 2025, which OpenAI described as its most capable model at the time and recommended for hard questions where reliability matters more than speed.

Large language modelsReasoningScience

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

AlphaEvolve is a Google DeepMind coding agent announced on 14 May 2025 that pairs Gemini models with automated evaluators to evolve algorithms, yielding a Borg scheduling heuristic, faster kernels and new mathematical results.

Agents & tool useReasoningScience

DeepSeek's open-source model for formal theorem proving in Lean 4, trained with a subgoal-decomposition pipeline; it reached an 88.9% pass ratio on MiniF2F-test and introduced the ProverBench benchmark.

Open sourceChinaReasoning

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

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

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

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

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

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

Molmo is a family of open vision-language models released by Ai2 on 25 September 2024 that can point at objects in images, with weights, code, data and evaluations published openly.

Open sourceMultimodalData & datasets

Llama 3.2, announced on 25 September 2024, added vision models at 11 billion and 90 billion parameters and small text-only models at 1 billion and 3 billion for edge and mobile devices.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Pixtral 12B is Mistral AI's first multimodal model, pairing a 12B language decoder with a 400M vision encoder. Released openly under Apache 2.0 in September 2024, it reads images at native resolution and was retired at the end of 2025.

Open sourceMultimodalComputer vision

NVLM is a family of multimodal large language models from NVIDIA, described in a paper posted to arXiv in September 2024; its flagship NVLM-D-72B was later released as open weights for non-commercial use.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Qwen2-VL is Alibaba's vision-language model released on 29 August 2024. It understands videos longer than 20 minutes, reads text in many languages, and can act as an agent on phones and robots.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

SAM 2 is Meta's 2024 successor to the Segment Anything Model. It segments objects in both images and videos in real time, and its release included the SA-V video dataset.

Open sourceFoundation modelsData & datasets

AlphaProof is a Google DeepMind reinforcement-learning system that proves mathematical statements in the formal language Lean. At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad it solved three problems, and together with AlphaGeometry 2 reached silver-medal level.

ReasoningScienceSymbolic AI

A 7-billion-parameter model released by Mistral AI on 16 July 2024 for mathematical and STEM reasoning, built on Mistral 7B, openly licensed, and now listed as deprecated.

Open sourceReasoningScience

ESM3 is a protein generative model announced by EvolutionaryScale in June 2024 that reasons over sequence, structure and function together, and generated a fluorescent protein estimated to sit over 500 million years of evolution away from known ones.

Open sourceFoundation modelsGenerative models

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

Grok-1.5 is xAI's upgrade to Grok-1, with better reasoning and a 128,000-token context window. Its companion Grok-1.5V was xAI's first multimodal model. Neither model's weights were released publicly.

Large language modelsMultimodalReasoning

Step-1V is a roughly 100-billion-parameter multimodal model from StepFun, unveiled in March 2024, that reads text, data and charts in images and supports video understanding; it ranked first on OpenCompass at launch and was succeeded by Step-1.5V.

Large language modelsChinaMultimodal

Claude 3 Haiku is the smallest and fastest model in Anthropic's Claude 3 family, announced in March 2024 with low per-token pricing, a 200K-token context window and image input; retired in April 2026.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

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

Claude 3 Opus, announced on 4 March 2024, was the most capable model in the Claude 3 family. It added vision and launched with a 200K-token context window and a Needle In A Haystack recall above 99%.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

DeepSeekMath is a 7B-parameter open language model built for mathematical reasoning and released in 2024. It reached 51.7% on the competition-level MATH benchmark without external tools, and introduced GRPO, a reinforcement-learning algorithm that uses less memory than PPO.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Yi-VL-34B and Yi-VL-6B are open vision-language models from 01.AI, released on 23 January 2024. They read images and text together and ranked first among open models on the MMMU and CMMMU benchmarks.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

AlphaGeometry is a Google DeepMind system that pairs a neural language model with a symbolic deduction engine to solve olympiad geometry problems, reaching near gold-medal level on a benchmark of 30 problems.

Open sourceReasoningScience

FunSearch is a method that uses a pretrained large language model inside an evolutionary loop to search for programs that solve mathematical and computational problems, rather than for answers directly. It produced new results on the cap set problem and on online bin packing.

Deep learningReasoningScience

GNoME is a Google DeepMind deep-learning tool, announced on 29 November 2023, that predicts new inorganic crystals; it produced 2.2 million candidate structures, of which 380,000 were predicted to be stable.

Deep learningData & datasetsScience

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

Fuyu-8B is a decoder-only multimodal model that Adept open-sourced in October 2023; it drops the image encoder, accepts arbitrary resolutions, and reads screens and charts.

Open sourceAgents & tool useMultimodal

GPT-4V is a version of GPT-4 that accepts image input alongside text, documented in OpenAI's system card of 25 September 2023 and released to developers through preview API models; image understanding later became native in GPT-4o.

Large language modelsMultimodalSafety & governance