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Gemma 3
Google
Gemma 3, introduced by Google, is a new AI model built on the Gemini 2.0 architecture, designed to offer enhanced performance and versatility. This model is capable of running efficiently on a single GPU or TPU, making it accessible for a wide range of developers and researchers. Gemma 3 focuses on improving natural language understanding, generation, and other AI-driven tasks. By offering scalable, powerful AI capabilities, Gemma 3 aims to advance the development of AI systems across various industries and use cases.Starting Price: Free -
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ERNIE 4.5
Baidu
ERNIE 4.5 is a cutting-edge conversational AI platform developed by Baidu, leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP) models to enable highly sophisticated human-like interactions. The platform is part of Baidu’s ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration) series, which integrates multimodal capabilities, including text, image, and voice. ERNIE 4.5 enhances the ability of AI models to understand complex context and deliver more accurate, nuanced responses, making it suitable for various applications, from customer service and virtual assistants to content creation and enterprise-level automation.Starting Price: $0.55 per 1M tokens -
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LearnLM
Google
LearnLM is an experimental, task-specific model designed to align with learning science principles for teaching and learning applications. It is trained to respond to system instructions like "You are an expert tutor," and is capable of inspiring active learning by encouraging practice and providing timely feedback. The model effectively manages cognitive load by presenting relevant, well-structured information across multiple modalities, while dynamically adapting to the learner’s goals and needs, grounding responses in appropriate materials. LearnLM also stimulates curiosity, motivating learners throughout their educational journey, and supports metacognition by helping learners plan, monitor, and reflect on their progress. This innovative model is available for experimentation in AI Studio.Starting Price: Free -
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BitNet
Microsoft
The BitNet b1.58 2B4T is a cutting-edge 1-bit Large Language Model (LLM) developed by Microsoft, designed to enhance computational efficiency while maintaining high performance. This model, built with approximately 2 billion parameters and trained on 4 trillion tokens, uses innovative quantization techniques to optimize memory usage, energy consumption, and latency. The platform supports multiple modalities and is particularly valuable for applications in AI-powered text generation, offering substantial efficiency gains compared to full-precision models.Starting Price: Free -
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ERNIE X1 Turbo
Baidu
ERNIE X1 Turbo, developed by Baidu, is an advanced deep reasoning AI model introduced at the Baidu Create 2025 conference. Designed to handle complex multi-step tasks such as problem-solving, literary creation, and code generation, this model outperforms competitors like DeepSeek R1 in terms of reasoning abilities. With a focus on multimodal capabilities, ERNIE X1 Turbo supports text, audio, and image processing, making it an incredibly versatile AI solution. Despite its cutting-edge technology, it is priced at just a fraction of the cost of other top-tier models, offering a high-value solution for businesses and developers.Starting Price: $0.14 per 1M tokens -
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Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition) by Google is an advanced AI model designed to streamline coding tasks and enhance web app development. This powerful tool allows developers to efficiently transform and edit code, reducing errors and improving function calling accuracy. With enhanced capabilities in video understanding and web app creation, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview excels at building aesthetically pleasing and functional web applications. Available through Google’s Gemini API and AI platforms, this model provides a seamless solution for developers to create innovative applications with improved performance and reliability.Starting Price: $19.99/month
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Orpheus TTS
Canopy Labs
Canopy Labs has introduced Orpheus, a family of state-of-the-art speech large language models (LLMs) designed for human-level speech generation. These models are built on the Llama-3 architecture and are trained on over 100,000 hours of English speech data, enabling them to produce natural intonation, emotion, and rhythm that surpasses current state-of-the-art closed source models. Orpheus supports zero-shot voice cloning, allowing users to replicate voices without prior fine-tuning, and offers guided emotion and intonation control through simple tags. The models achieve low latency, with approximately 200ms streaming latency for real-time applications, reducible to around 100ms with input streaming. Canopy Labs has released both pre-trained and fine-tuned 3B-parameter models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, with plans to release smaller models of 1B, 400M, and 150M parameters for use on resource-constrained devices. -
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OpenAI o3-pro
OpenAI
OpenAI’s o3-pro is a high-performance reasoning model designed for tasks that require deep analysis and precision. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, succeeding the earlier o1-pro model. The model excels in complex fields like mathematics, science, and coding by employing detailed step-by-step reasoning. It integrates advanced tools such as real-time web search, file analysis, Python execution, and visual input processing. While powerful, o3-pro has slower response times and lacks support for features like image generation and temporary chats. Despite these trade-offs, o3-pro demonstrates superior clarity, accuracy, and adherence to instructions compared to its predecessor.Starting Price: $20 per 1 million tokens -
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MiniMax-M1
MiniMax
MiniMax‑M1 is a large‑scale hybrid‑attention reasoning model released by MiniMax AI under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports an unprecedented 1 million‑token context window and up to 80,000-token outputs, enabling extended reasoning across long documents. Trained using large‑scale reinforcement learning with a novel CISPO algorithm, MiniMax‑M1 completed full training on 512 H800 GPUs in about three weeks. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on benchmarks in mathematics, coding, software engineering, tool usage, and long‑context understanding, matching or outperforming leading models. Two model variants are available (40K and 80K thinking budgets), with weights and deployment scripts provided via GitHub and Hugging Face. -
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DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
DeepSeek
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, our latest experimental model built on V3.1-Terminus, debuting DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) for faster and more efficient inference and training on long contexts. DSA enables fine-grained sparse attention with minimal loss in output quality, boosting performance for long-context tasks while reducing compute costs. Benchmarks indicate that V3.2-Exp performs on par with V3.1-Terminus despite these efficiency gains. The model is now live across app, web, and API. Alongside this, the DeepSeek API prices have been cut by over 50% immediately to make access more affordable. For a transitional period, users can still access V3.1-Terminus via a temporary API endpoint until October 15, 2025. DeepSeek welcomes feedback on DSA via its feedback portal. In conjunction with the release, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp has been open-sourced: the model weights and supporting technology (including key GPU kernels in TileLang and CUDA) are available on Hugging Face. -
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GPT-5.1
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 is the latest update in the GPT-5 series, designed to make ChatGPT dramatically smarter and more conversational. The release introduces two distinct model variants: GPT-5.1 Instant, which is described as the most-used model and is now warmer, better at following instructions, and more intelligent; and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is the advanced reasoning engine that’s been tuned to be easier to understand, faster on straightforward tasks, and more persistent on complex ones. Users' queries are now routed automatically to the variant best-suited to the task. The update emphasizes not just improved raw intelligence but also enhanced communication style; the models are tuned to be more natural, enjoyable to talk to, and better aligned with user intents. The system card addendum notes that GPT-5.1 Instant uses “adaptive reasoning” that lets it decide when to think more deeply before responding, while GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its thinking time accurately to the question at hand. -
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LUIS
Microsoft
Language Understanding (LUIS): A machine learning-based service to build natural language into apps, bots, and IoT devices. Quickly create enterprise-ready, custom models that continuously improve. Add natural language to your apps. Designed to identify valuable information in conversations, LUIS interprets user goals (intents) and distills valuable information from sentences (entities), for a high quality, nuanced language model. LUIS integrates seamlessly with the Azure Bot Service, making it easy to create a sophisticated bot. Powerful developer tools are combined with customizable pre-built apps and entity dictionaries, such as Calendar, Music, and Devices, so you can build and deploy a solution more quickly. Dictionaries are mined from the collective knowledge of the web and supply billions of entries, helping your model to correctly identify valuable information from user conversations. Active learning is used to continuously improve the quality of the models. -
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Sparrow
DeepMind
Sparrow is a research model and proof of concept, designed with the goal of training dialogue agents to be more helpful, correct, and harmless. By learning these qualities in a general dialogue setting, Sparrow advances our understanding of how we can train agents to be safer and more useful – and ultimately, to help build safer and more useful artificial general intelligence (AGI). Sparrow is not yet available for public use. Training a conversational AI is an especially challenging problem because it’s difficult to pinpoint what makes a dialogue successful. To address this problem, we turn to a form of reinforcement learning (RL) based on people's feedback, using the study participants’ preference feedback to train a model of how useful an answer is. To get this data, we show our participants multiple model answers to the same question and ask them which answer they like the most. -
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NVIDIA NeMo
NVIDIA
NVIDIA NeMo LLM is a service that provides a fast path to customizing and using large language models trained on several frameworks. Developers can deploy enterprise AI applications using NeMo LLM on private and public clouds. They can also experience Megatron 530B—one of the largest language models—through the cloud API or experiment via the LLM service. Customize your choice of various NVIDIA or community-developed models that work best for your AI applications. Within minutes to hours, get better responses by providing context for specific use cases using prompt learning techniques. Leverage the power of NVIDIA Megatron 530B, one of the largest language models, through the NeMo LLM Service or the cloud API. Take advantage of models for drug discovery, including in the cloud API and NVIDIA BioNeMo framework. -
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ERNIE Bot
Baidu
ERNIE Bot is an AI-powered conversational assistant developed by Baidu, designed to facilitate seamless and natural interactions with users. Built on the ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration) model, ERNIE Bot excels at understanding complex queries and generating human-like responses across various domains. Its capabilities include processing text, generating images, and engaging in multimodal communication, making it suitable for a wide range of applications such as customer support, virtual assistants, and enterprise automation. With its advanced contextual understanding, ERNIE Bot offers an intuitive and efficient solution for businesses seeking to enhance their digital interactions and automate workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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PaLM
Google
PaLM API is an easy and safe way to build on top of our best language models. Today, we’re making an efficient model available, in terms of size and capabilities, and we’ll add other sizes soon. The API also comes with an intuitive tool called MakerSuite, which lets you quickly prototype ideas and, over time, will have features for prompt engineering, synthetic data generation and custom-model tuning — all supported by robust safety tools. Select developers can access the PaLM API and MakerSuite in Private Preview today, and stay tuned for our waitlist soon. -
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Med-PaLM 2
Google Cloud
Healthcare breakthroughs change the world and bring hope to humanity through scientific rigor, human insight, and compassion. We believe AI can contribute to this, with thoughtful collaboration between researchers, healthcare organizations, and the broader ecosystem. Today, we're sharing exciting progress on these initiatives, with the announcement of limited access to Google’s medical large language model, or LLM, called Med-PaLM 2. It will be available in the coming weeks to a select group of Google Cloud customers for limited testing, to explore use cases and share feedback as we investigate safe, responsible, and meaningful ways to use this technology. Med-PaLM 2 harnesses the power of Google’s LLMs, aligned to the medical domain to more accurately and safely answer medical questions. As a result, Med-PaLM 2 was the first LLM to perform at an “expert” test-taker level performance on the MedQA dataset of US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)-style questions. -
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Gopher
DeepMind
Language, and its role in demonstrating and facilitating comprehension - or intelligence - is a fundamental part of being human. It gives people the ability to communicate thoughts and concepts, express ideas, create memories, and build mutual understanding. These are foundational parts of social intelligence. It’s why our teams at DeepMind study aspects of language processing and communication, both in artificial agents and in humans. As part of a broader portfolio of AI research, we believe the development and study of more powerful language models – systems that predict and generate text – have tremendous potential for building advanced AI systems that can be used safely and efficiently to summarise information, provide expert advice and follow instructions via natural language. Developing beneficial language models requires research into their potential impacts, including the risks they pose. -
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PaLM 2
Google
PaLM 2 is our next generation large language model that builds on Google’s legacy of breakthrough research in machine learning and responsible AI. It excels at advanced reasoning tasks, including code and math, classification and question answering, translation and multilingual proficiency, and natural language generation better than our previous state-of-the-art LLMs, including PaLM. It can accomplish these tasks because of the way it was built – bringing together compute-optimal scaling, an improved dataset mixture, and model architecture improvements. PaLM 2 is grounded in Google’s approach to building and deploying AI responsibly. It was evaluated rigorously for its potential harms and biases, capabilities and downstream uses in research and in-product applications. It’s being used in other state-of-the-art models, like Med-PaLM 2 and Sec-PaLM, and is powering generative AI features and tools at Google, like Bard and the PaLM API. -
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Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI is the new state of the art (SOTA) model, outperforming GPT-4 on 105 of 114 healthcare exams and certifications. Hippocratic AI has outperformed GPT-4 on 105 out of 114 tests and certifications, outperformed by a margin of five percent or more on 74 of the certifications, and outperformed by a margin of ten percent or more on 43 of the certifications. Most language models pre-train on the common crawl of the Internet, which may include incorrect and misleading information. Unlike these LLMs, Hippocratic AI is investing heavily in legally acquiring evidence-based healthcare content. We’re conducting a unique Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback process using healthcare professionals to train and validate the model’s readiness for deployment. We call this RLHF-HP. Hippocratic AI will not release the model until a large number of these licensed professionals deem it safe. -
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YandexGPT
Yandex
Take advantage of the capabilities of generative language models to improve and optimize your applications and web services. Get an aggregated result of accumulated textual data whether it be information from work chats, user reviews, or other types of data. YandexGPT will help both summarize and interpret the information. Speed up text creation as you improve their quality and style. Create template texts for newsletters, product descriptions for online stores and other applications. Develop a chatbot for your support service: teach the bot to answer various user questions, both common and more complicated. Use the API to integrate the service with your applications and automate processes. -
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Ntropy
Ntropy
Ship faster integrating with our Python SDK or Rest API in minutes. No prior setups or data formatting. You can get going straight away as soon as you have incoming data and your first customers. We have built and fine-tuned custom language models to recognize entities, automatically crawl the web in real-time and pick the best match, as well as assign labels with superhuman accuracy in a fraction of the time. Everybody has a data enrichment model that is trying to be good at one thing, US or Europe, business or consumer. These models are poor at generalizing and are not capable of human-level output. With us, you can leverage the power of the world's largest and most performant models embedded in your products, at a fraction of cost and time. -
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Giga ML
Giga ML
We just launched X1 large series of Models. Giga ML's most powerful model is available for pre-training and fine-tuning with on-prem deployment. Since we are Open AI compatible, your existing integrations with long chain, llama-index, and all others work seamlessly. You can continue pre-training of LLM's with domain-specific data books or docs or company docs. The world of large language models (LLMs) rapidly expanding, offering unprecedented opportunities for natural language processing across various domains. However, some critical challenges have remained unaddressed. At Giga ML, we proudly introduce the X1 Large 32k model, a pioneering on-premise LLM solution that addresses these critical issues. -
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Martian
Martian
By using the best-performing model for each request, we can achieve higher performance than any single model. Martian outperforms GPT-4 across OpenAI's evals (open/evals). We turn opaque black boxes into interpretable representations. Our router is the first tool built on top of our model mapping method. We are developing many other applications of model mapping including turning transformers from indecipherable matrices into human-readable programs. If a company experiences an outage or high latency period, automatically reroute to other providers so your customers never experience any issues. Determine how much you could save by using the Martian Model Router with our interactive cost calculator. Input your number of users, tokens per session, and sessions per month, and specify your cost/quality tradeoff. -
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Phi-2
Microsoft
We are now releasing Phi-2, a 2.7 billion-parameter language model that demonstrates outstanding reasoning and language understanding capabilities, showcasing state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters. On complex benchmarks Phi-2 matches or outperforms models up to 25x larger, thanks to new innovations in model scaling and training data curation. With its compact size, Phi-2 is an ideal playground for researchers, including for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, or fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks. We have made Phi-2 available in the Azure AI Studio model catalog to foster research and development on language models. -
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Hyperplane
Hyperplane
Better audiences from the richness of transaction data. Create nuanced personas and effective marketing campaigns based on financial behaviors and consumer interests. Increase user limits, without worrying about default. Leverage user income estimates that are precise and always up-to-date. The Hyperplane platform enables financial institutions to launch personalized consumer experiences through specialized foundation models (LLMs). Upgrade your feature sets with embeddings for credit, collections, and lookalike modeling. Segment users based on various criteria, enabling you to target specific audience groups for personalized marketing campaigns, content delivery, and user analysis. Segmentation is achieved through facets, which are key attributes or characteristics used to categorize users, Hyperplane offers the capability to enrich user segmentation by employing additional attributes to fine-tune the filtering of responses from certain audience segmentation endpoints. -
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Smaug-72B
Abacus
Smaug-72B is a powerful open-source large language model (LLM) known for several key features: High Performance: It currently holds the top spot on the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard, surpassing models like GPT-3.5 in various benchmarks. This means it excels at tasks like understanding, responding to, and generating human-like text. Open Source: Unlike many other advanced LLMs, Smaug-72B is freely available for anyone to use and modify, fostering collaboration and innovation in the AI community. Focus on Reasoning and Math: It specifically shines in handling reasoning and mathematical tasks, attributing this strength to unique fine-tuning techniques developed by Abacus AI, the creators of Smaug-72B. Based on Qwen-72B: It's technically a fine-tuned version of another powerful LLM called Qwen-72B, released by Alibaba, further improving upon its capabilities. Overall, Smaug-72B represents a significant step forward in open-source AI.Starting Price: Free -
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Gemma
Google
Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. Developed by Google DeepMind and other teams across Google, Gemma is inspired by Gemini, and the name reflects the Latin gemma, meaning “precious stone.” Accompanying our model weights, we’re also releasing tools to support developer innovation, foster collaboration, and guide the responsible use of Gemma models. Gemma models share technical and infrastructure components with Gemini, our largest and most capable AI model widely available today. This enables Gemma 2B and 7B to achieve best-in-class performance for their sizes compared to other open models. And Gemma models are capable of running directly on a developer laptop or desktop computer. Notably, Gemma surpasses significantly larger models on key benchmarks while adhering to our rigorous standards for safe and responsible outputs. -
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Eternity AI
Eternity AI
Eternity AI is building an HTLM-7B, a machine learning model that knows what the internet is and how to access it to generate responses. Humans don't make decisions based on 2-year-old data. For a model to think like a human, it needs to get access to real-time knowledge and everything about how humans behave. Members of our team have previously published white papers and articles on topics related to on-chain vulnerability coordination, GPT database retrieval, decentralized dispute resolution, etc. -
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Adept
Adept
Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively. Designed and trained specifically for taking actions on computers in response to your natural language commands. ACT-1 is our first step towards a foundation model that can use every software tool, API and website that exists. Adept is building an entirely new way to get things done. It takes your goals, in plain language, and turns them into actions on the software you use every day. We believe that AI systems should be built with users at the center — where machines work together with people in the driver's seat, discovering new solutions, enabling more informed decisions, and giving us more time for the work we love.