Best Large Language Models in Africa - Page 8
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DBRX
Databricks
Today, we are excited to introduce DBRX, an open, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks. Across a range of standard benchmarks, DBRX sets a new state-of-the-art for established open LLMs. Moreover, it provides the open community and enterprises building their own LLMs with capabilities that were previously limited to closed model APIs; according to our measurements, it surpasses GPT-3.5, and it is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. It is an especially capable code model, surpassing specialized models like CodeLLaMA-70B in programming, in addition to its strength as a general-purpose LLM. This state-of-the-art quality comes with marked improvements in training and inference performance. DBRX advances the state-of-the-art in efficiency among open models thanks to its fine-grained mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture. Inference is up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B, and DBRX is about 40% of the size of Grok-1 in terms of both total and active parameter counts. -
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Claude Haiku 3
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 3 is the fastest and most affordable model in its intelligence class. With state-of-the-art vision capabilities and strong performance on industry benchmarks, Haiku is a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise applications. The model is now available alongside Sonnet and Opus in the Claude API and on claude.ai for our Claude Pro subscribers. -
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Gemma 2
Google
A family of state-of-the-art, light-open models created from the same research and technology that were used to create Gemini models. These models incorporate comprehensive security measures and help ensure responsible and reliable AI solutions through selected data sets and rigorous adjustments. Gemma models achieve exceptional comparative results in their 2B, 7B, 9B, and 27B sizes, even outperforming some larger open models. With Keras 3.0, enjoy seamless compatibility with JAX, TensorFlow, and PyTorch, allowing you to effortlessly choose and change frameworks based on task. Redesigned to deliver outstanding performance and unmatched efficiency, Gemma 2 is optimized for incredibly fast inference on various hardware. The Gemma family of models offers different models that are optimized for specific use cases and adapt to your needs. Gemma models are large text-to-text lightweight language models with a decoder, trained in a huge set of text data, code, and mathematical content. -
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Moshi
Kyutai
Moshi is an experimental conversational AI. Moshi thinks and speaks at the same time. Moshi can listen and talk at all time: maximum flow between you and Moshi.Starting Price: Free -
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Phi-3
Microsoft
A family of powerful, small language models (SLMs) with groundbreaking performance at low cost and low latency. Maximize AI capabilities, lower resource use, and ensure cost-effective generative AI deployments across your applications. Accelerate response times in real-time interactions, autonomous systems, apps requiring low latency, and other critical scenarios. Run Phi-3 in the cloud, at the edge, or on device, resulting in greater deployment and operation flexibility. Phi-3 models were developed in accordance with Microsoft AI principles: accountability, transparency, fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, and inclusiveness. Operate effectively in offline environments where data privacy is paramount or connectivity is limited. Generate more coherent, accurate, and contextually relevant outputs with an expanded context window. Deploy at the edge to deliver faster responses. -
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NVIDIA Nemotron
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Nemotron is a family of open-source models developed by NVIDIA, designed to generate synthetic data for training large language models (LLMs) for commercial applications. The Nemotron-4 340B model, in particular, is a significant release by NVIDIA, offering developers a powerful tool to generate high-quality data and filter it based on various attributes using a reward model. -
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Jamba
AI21 Labs
Jamba is the most powerful & efficient long context model, open for builders and built for the enterprise. Jamba's latency outperforms all leading models of comparable sizes. Jamba's 256k context window is the longest openly available. Jamba's Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture is designed for cost & efficiency gains. Jamba offers key features of OOTB including function calls, JSON mode output, document objects, and citation mode. Jamba 1.5 models maintain high performance across the full length of their context window. Jamba 1.5 models achieve top scores across common quality benchmarks. Secure deployment that suits your enterprise. Seamlessly start using Jamba on our production-grade SaaS platform. The Jamba model family is available for deployment across our strategic partners. We offer VPC & on-prem deployments for enterprises that require custom solutions. For enterprises that have unique, bespoke requirements, we offer hands-on management, continuous pre-training, etc. -
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DataGemma
Google
DataGemma represents a pioneering effort by Google to enhance the accuracy and reliability of large language models (LLMs) when dealing with statistical and numerical data. Launched as a set of open models, DataGemma leverages Google's Data Commons, a vast repository of public statistical data—to ground its responses in real-world facts. This initiative employs two innovative approaches: Retrieval Interleaved Generation (RIG) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). The RIG method integrates real-time data checks during the generation process to ensure factual accuracy, while RAG retrieves relevant information before generating responses, thereby reducing the likelihood of AI hallucinations. By doing so, DataGemma aims to provide users with more trustworthy and factually grounded answers, marking a significant step towards mitigating the issue of misinformation in AI-generated content. -
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LFM-40B
Liquid AI
LFM-40B offers a new balance between model size and output quality. It leverages 12B activated parameters at use. Its performance is comparable to models larger than itself, while its MoE architecture enables higher throughput and deployment on more cost-effective hardware. -
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LFM-3B
Liquid AI
LFM-3B delivers incredible performance for its size. It positions itself as first place among 3B parameter transformers, hybrids, and RNN models, but also outperforms the previous generation of 7B and 13B models. It is also on par with Phi-3.5-mini on multiple benchmarks, while being 18.4% smaller. LFM-3B is the ideal choice for mobile and other edge text-based applications. -
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OLMo 2
Ai2
OLMo 2 is a family of fully open language models developed by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), designed to provide researchers and developers with transparent access to training data, open-source code, reproducible training recipes, and comprehensive evaluations. These models are trained on up to 5 trillion tokens and are competitive with leading open-weight models like Llama 3.1 on English academic benchmarks. OLMo 2 emphasizes training stability, implementing techniques to prevent loss spikes during long training runs, and utilizes staged training interventions during late pretraining to address capability deficiencies. The models incorporate state-of-the-art post-training methodologies from AI2's Tülu 3, resulting in the creation of OLMo 2-Instruct models. An actionable evaluation framework, the Open Language Modeling Evaluation System (OLMES), was established to guide improvements through development stages, consisting of 20 evaluation benchmarks assessing core capabilities. -
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Amazon Nova
Amazon
Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, available exclusively on Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Lite, and Amazon Nova Pro are understanding models that accept text, image, or video inputs and generate text output. They provide a broad selection of capability, accuracy, speed, and cost operation points. Amazon Nova Micro is a text only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at very low cost. Amazon Nova Lite is a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs. Amazon Nova Pro is a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. Amazon Nova Pro’s capabilities, coupled with its industry-leading speed and cost efficiency, makes it a compelling model for almost any task, including video summarization, Q&A, math & more. -
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Phi-4
Microsoft
Phi-4 is a 14B parameter state-of-the-art small language model (SLM) that excels at complex reasoning in areas such as math, in addition to conventional language processing. Phi-4 is the latest member of our Phi family of small language models and demonstrates what’s possible as we continue to probe the boundaries of SLMs. Phi-4 is currently available on Azure AI Foundry under a Microsoft Research License Agreement (MSRLA) and will be available on Hugging Face. Phi-4 outperforms comparable and larger models on math related reasoning due to advancements throughout the processes, including the use of high-quality synthetic datasets, curation of high-quality organic data, and post-training innovations. Phi-4 continues to push the frontier of size vs quality. -
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Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning, developed by 01.AI under the leadership of Kai-Fu Lee, represents the latest advancement in large language models with a focus on high performance and cost-efficiency. It boasts a maximum context length of 16K tokens and is priced at $0.14 per million tokens for both input and output, making it remarkably competitive. Yi-Lightning leverages an enhanced Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, incorporating fine-grained expert segmentation and advanced routing strategies, which contribute to its efficiency in training and inference. This model has excelled in various domains, achieving top rankings in categories like Chinese, math, coding, and hard prompts on the chatbot arena, where it secured the 6th position overall and 9th in style control. Its development included comprehensive pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning from human feedback, ensuring both performance and safety, with optimizations in memory usage and inference speed. -
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OpenEuroLLM
OpenEuroLLM
OpenEuroLLM is a collaborative initiative among Europe's leading AI companies and research institutions to develop a series of open-source foundation models for transparent AI in Europe. The project emphasizes transparency by openly sharing data, documentation, training, testing code, and evaluation metrics, fostering community involvement. It ensures compliance with EU regulations, aiming to provide performant large language models that align with European standards. A key focus is on linguistic and cultural diversity, extending multilingual capabilities to encompass all EU official languages and beyond. The initiative seeks to enhance access to foundational models ready for fine-tuning across various applications, expand evaluation results in multiple languages, and increase the availability of training datasets and benchmarks. Transparency is maintained throughout the training processes by sharing tools, methodologies, and intermediate results. -
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is an advanced AI model developed by Google DeepMind, designed to enhance reasoning capabilities by explicitly displaying its thought processes. This transparency allows the model to tackle complex problems more effectively and provides users with clear explanations of its decision-making steps. By showcasing its internal reasoning, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking not only improves performance but also offers greater explainability, making it a valuable tool for applications requiring deep understanding and trust in AI-driven solutions. -
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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is Google DeepMind's lighter AI model, designed to offer a cost-effective solution without compromising performance. As the most economical model in the Gemini 2.0 lineup, Flash-Lite is tailored for developers and businesses seeking efficient AI capabilities at a lower cost. It supports multimodal inputs and features a context window of one million tokens, making it suitable for a variety of applications. Flash-Lite is currently available in public preview, allowing users to explore its potential in enhancing their AI-driven projects. -
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Gemini 2.0 Pro
Google
Gemini 2.0 Pro is Google DeepMind's most advanced AI model, designed to excel in complex tasks such as coding and intricate problem-solving. Currently in its experimental phase, it features an extensive context window of two million tokens, enabling it to process and analyze vast amounts of information efficiently. A standout feature of Gemini 2.0 Pro is its seamless integration with external tools like Google Search and code execution environments, enhancing its ability to provide accurate and comprehensive responses. This model represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, offering developers and users a powerful resource for tackling sophisticated challenges. -
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Inception Labs
Inception Labs
Inception Labs is pioneering the next generation of AI with diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs), a breakthrough in AI that offers 10x faster performance and 5-10x lower cost than traditional autoregressive models. Inspired by the success of diffusion models in image and video generation, Inception’s dLLMs introduce enhanced reasoning, error correction, and multimodal capabilities, allowing for more structured and accurate text generation. With applications spanning enterprise AI, research, and content generation, Inception’s approach sets a new standard for speed, efficiency, and control in AI-driven workflows. -
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Hunyuan T1
Tencent
Hunyuan T1 is Tencent's deep-thinking AI model, now fully open to all users through the Tencent Yuanbao platform. This model excels in understanding multiple dimensions and potential logical relationships, making it suitable for handling complex tasks. Users can experience various AI models on the platform, including DeepSeek-R1 and Tencent Hunyuan Turbo. The official version of the Tencent Hunyuan T1 model will also be launched soon, providing external API access and other services. Built upon Tencent's Hunyuan large language model, Yuanbao excels in Chinese language understanding, logical reasoning, and task execution. It offers AI-based search, summaries, and writing capabilities, enabling users to analyze documents and engage in prompt-based interactions. -
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ERNIE X1
Baidu
ERNIE X1 is an advanced conversational AI model developed by Baidu as part of their ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration) series. Unlike previous versions, ERNIE X1 is designed to be more efficient in understanding and generating human-like responses. It incorporates cutting-edge machine learning techniques to handle complex queries, making it capable of not only processing text but also generating images and engaging in multimodal communication. ERNIE X1 is often used in natural language processing applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and enterprise automation, offering significant improvements in accuracy, contextual understanding, and response quality.Starting Price: $0.28 per 1M tokens -
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Reka Flash 3
Reka
Reka Flash 3 is a 21-billion-parameter multimodal AI model developed by Reka AI, designed to excel in general chat, coding, instruction following, and function calling. It processes and reasons with text, images, video, and audio inputs, offering a compact, general-purpose solution for various applications. Trained from scratch on diverse datasets, including publicly accessible and synthetic data, Reka Flash 3 underwent instruction tuning on curated, high-quality data to optimize performance. The final training stage involved reinforcement learning using REINFORCE Leave One-Out (RLOO) with both model-based and rule-based rewards, enhancing its reasoning capabilities. With a context length of 32,000 tokens, Reka Flash 3 performs competitively with proprietary models like OpenAI's o1-mini, making it suitable for low-latency or on-device deployments. The model's full precision requires 39GB (fp16), but it can be compressed to as small as 11GB using 4-bit quantization. -
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google
Gemini 2.5 Flash is a powerful, low-latency AI model introduced by Google on Vertex AI, designed for high-volume applications where speed and cost-efficiency are key. It delivers optimized performance for use cases like customer service, virtual assistants, and real-time data processing. With its dynamic reasoning capabilities, Gemini 2.5 Flash automatically adjusts processing time based on query complexity, offering granular control over the balance between speed, accuracy, and cost. It is ideal for businesses needing scalable AI solutions that maintain quality and efficiency. -
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Amazon Nova Micro
Amazon
Amazon Nova Micro is an AI model designed for high-speed, low-cost text processing and generation. It excels in language understanding, translation, code completion, and mathematical problem-solving, providing fast responses with a generation speed of over 200 tokens per second. The model supports fine-tuning for text input and is ideal for applications requiring real-time processing and efficiency. With support for 200+ languages and a maximum of 128k tokens, Nova Micro is perfect for interactive AI applications that prioritize speed and affordability. -
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Amazon Nova Lite
Amazon
Amazon Nova Lite is a cost-efficient, multimodal AI model designed for rapid processing of image, video, and text inputs. It delivers impressive performance at an affordable price, making it ideal for interactive, high-volume applications where cost is a key consideration. With support for fine-tuning across text, image, and video inputs, Nova Lite excels in a variety of tasks that require fast, accurate responses, such as content generation and real-time analytics. -
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Amazon Nova Pro
Amazon
Amazon Nova Pro is a versatile, multimodal AI model designed for a wide range of complex tasks, offering an optimal combination of accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency. It excels in video summarization, Q&A, software development, and AI agent workflows that require executing multi-step processes. With advanced capabilities in text, image, and video understanding, Nova Pro supports tasks like mathematical reasoning and content generation, making it ideal for businesses looking to implement cutting-edge AI in their operations. -
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Amazon Nova Premier
Amazon
Amazon Nova Premier is the most advanced model in their Nova family, designed to handle complex tasks and act as a teacher for model distillation. Available on Amazon Bedrock, Nova Premier can process text, images, and video inputs, making it capable of managing intricate workflows, multi-step planning, and the precise execution of tasks across various data sources. The model features a context length of one million tokens, enabling it to handle large-scale documents and code bases efficiently. Furthermore, Nova Premier allows users to create smaller, faster, and more cost-effective versions of its models, such as Nova Pro and Nova Micro, for specific use cases through model distillation. -
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Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think
Google
Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think is a cutting-edge AI model designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of machine learning models, offering improved performance and accuracy. This advanced version of the Gemini 2.5 series incorporates a feature called "Deep Think," allowing the model to reason through its thoughts before responding. It excels in coding, handling complex prompts, and multimodal tasks, offering smarter, more efficient execution. Whether for coding tasks, visual reasoning, or handling long-context input, Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think provides unparalleled performance. It also introduces features like native audio for more expressive conversations and optimizations that make it faster and more accurate than previous versions. -
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OpenAI o4-mini-high
OpenAI
OpenAI o4-mini-high is an enhanced version of the o4-mini, optimized for higher reasoning capacity and performance. It maintains the same compact size but significantly boosts its ability to handle more complex tasks with improved efficiency. Whether you're dealing with large datasets, advanced mathematical computations, or intricate coding problems, o4-mini-high provides faster, more accurate responses, making it perfect for high-demand applications. -
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Google
Gemini 2.5 is Google DeepMind’s latest generation AI model family, designed to deliver advanced reasoning and native multimodality with a long context window. It improves performance and accuracy by reasoning through its thoughts before responding. The model offers different versions tailored for complex coding tasks, fast everyday performance, and cost-efficient high-volume workloads. Gemini 2.5 supports multiple data types including text, images, video, audio, and PDFs, enabling versatile AI applications. It features adaptive thinking budgets and fine-grained control for developers to balance cost and output quality. Available via Google AI Studio and Gemini API, Gemini 2.5 powers next-generation AI experiences.
