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Mistral Medium 3
Mistral AI
Mistral Medium 3 is a powerful AI model designed to deliver state-of-the-art performance at a fraction of the cost compared to other models. It offers simpler deployment options, allowing for hybrid or on-premises configurations. Mistral Medium 3 excels in professional applications like coding and multimodal understanding, making it ideal for enterprise use. Its low-cost structure makes it highly accessible while maintaining top-tier performance, outperforming many larger models in specific domains.Starting Price: Free -
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Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art open source large language model series built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, featuring 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion activated parameters for task-specific efficiency. Trained with the Muon optimizer on over 15.5 trillion tokens and stabilized by MuonClip’s attention-logit clamping, it delivers exceptional performance in frontier knowledge, reasoning, mathematics, coding, and general agentic workflows. Moonshot AI provides two variants, Kimi-K2-Base for research-level fine-tuning and Kimi-K2-Instruct pre-trained for immediate chat and tool-driven interactions, enabling both custom development and drop-in agentic capabilities. Benchmarks show it outperforms leading open source peers and rivals top proprietary models in coding tasks and complex task breakdowns, while its 128 K-token context length, tool-calling API compatibility, and support for industry-standard inference engines.Starting Price: Free -
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NuExtract
NuExtract
NuExtract is a large language model specialized in extracting structured information from documents of any format, including raw text, scanned images, PDFs, PowerPoints, spreadsheets, and more, supporting over a dozen languages and mixed‑language inputs. It delivers JSON‑formatted output that faithfully follows user‑defined templates, with built‑in verification and null‑value handling to minimize hallucinations. Users define extraction tasks by creating a template, either by describing the desired fields or importing existing schemas—and can improve accuracy by adding document, output examples in the example set. The NuExtract Platform provides an intuitive workspace for designing templates, testing extractions in a playground, managing teaching examples, and fine‑tuning settings such as model temperature and document rasterization DPI. Once validated, projects can be deployed via a RESTful API endpoint that processes documents in real time.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens -
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GLM-4.5-Air
Z.ai
Z.ai is a free AI assistant that brings presentations, writing, and coding into one conversational interface. Leveraging large language models, it lets you generate polished slide decks with AI slides, craft professional‑grade text for emails, reports, or blogs, and write or debug complex code. Beyond content creation, Z.ai supports deep research and information search, helping you gather facts, summarize long documents, and overcome writer’s block, while its code agent can explain snippets, refactor functions, or build scripts from scratch. An intuitive chat interface means no steep learning curves: simply tell Z.ai what you need, a strategic deck, marketing copy, or a data‑analysis script, and get instant, contextually relevant results. With support for multiple languages (including Chinese), native function calling, and up to 128K token context length, Z.ai handles everything from brainstorming ideas to automating repetitive writing or coding.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5 mini
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini is a streamlined, faster, and more affordable variant of OpenAI’s GPT-5, optimized for well-defined tasks and precise prompts. It supports text and image inputs and delivers high-quality text outputs with a 400,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. This model excels at rapid response times, making it suitable for applications requiring fast, accurate language understanding without the full overhead of GPT-5. Pricing is cost-effective, with input tokens at $0.25 per million and output tokens at $2 per million, providing savings over the flagship model. GPT-5 mini supports advanced features like streaming, function calling, structured outputs, and fine-tuning, but does not support audio input or image generation. It integrates well with various API endpoints including chat completions, responses, and embeddings, making it versatile for many AI-powered tasks.Starting Price: $0.25 per 1M tokens -
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GPT-5 nano
OpenAI
GPT-5 nano is OpenAI’s fastest and most affordable version of the GPT-5 family, designed for high-speed text processing tasks like summarization and classification. It supports text and image inputs, generating high-quality text outputs with a large 400,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. GPT-5 nano offers very fast response times, making it ideal for applications requiring quick turnaround without sacrificing quality. Pricing is extremely competitive, with input tokens costing $0.05 per million and output tokens $0.40 per million, making it accessible for budget-conscious projects. The model supports advanced API features such as streaming, function calling, structured outputs, and fine-tuning. While it supports image input, it does not handle audio input or web search, focusing on core text tasks efficiently.Starting Price: $0.05 per 1M tokens -
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DeepSeek V3.1
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3.1 is a groundbreaking open-weight large language model featuring a massive 685-billion parameters and an extended 128,000‑token context window, enabling it to process documents equivalent to 400-page books in a single prompt. It delivers integrated capabilities for chat, reasoning, and code generation within a unified hybrid architecture, seamlessly blending these functions into one coherent model. V3.1 supports a variety of tensor formats to give developers flexibility in optimizing performance across different hardware. Early benchmark results show robust performance, including a 71.6% score on the Aider coding benchmark, putting it on par with or ahead of systems like Claude Opus 4 and doing so at a far lower cost. Made available under an open source license on Hugging Face with minimal fanfare, DeepSeek V3.1 is poised to reshape access to high-performance AI, challenging traditional proprietary models.Starting Price: Free -
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Hermes 4
Nous Research
Hermes 4 is the latest evolution in Nous Research’s line of neutrally aligned, steerable foundational models, featuring novel hybrid reasoners that can dynamically shift between expressive, creative responses and efficient, standard replies based on user prompts. The model is designed to respond to system and user instructions, rather than adhering to any corporate ethics framework, producing interactions that feel more humanistic, less lecturing or sycophantic, and encouraging roleplay and creativity. By incorporating a special tag in prompts, users can trigger deeper, internally token-intensive reasoning when tackling complex problems, while retaining prompt efficiency when such depth isn't required. Trained on a dataset 50 times larger than that of Hermes 3, much of which was synthetically generated using Atropos, Hermes 4 shows significant performance improvements.Starting Price: Free -
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K2 Think
Institute of Foundation Models
K2 Think is an open source advanced reasoning model developed collaboratively by the Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI and G42. Despite only having 32 billion parameters, it delivers performance comparable to flagship models with many more parameters. It excels in mathematical reasoning, achieving top scores on competitive benchmarks such as AIME ’24/’25, HMMT ’25, and OMNI-Math-HARD. K2 Think is part of a suite of UAE-developed open models, alongside Jais (Arabic), NANDA (Hindi), and SHERKALA (Kazakh), and builds on the foundation laid by K2-65B, the fully reproducible open source foundation model released in 2024. The model is designed to be open, fast, and flexible, offering a web app interface for exploration, and with its efficiency in parameter positioning, it is a breakthrough in compact architectures for advanced AI reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
DeepSeek
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus, which enhances the V3.1 architecture by incorporating user feedback to improve output stability, consistency, and agent performance. It notably reduces instances of mixed Chinese/English character output and unintended garbled characters, resulting in cleaner, more consistent language generation. The update upgrades both the code agent and search agent subsystems to yield stronger, more reliable performance across benchmarks. DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is also available as an open source model, and its weights are published on Hugging Face. The model structure remains the same as DeepSeek-V3, ensuring compatibility with existing deployment methods, with updated inference demos provided for community use. While trained at a scale of 685B parameters, the model includes FP8, BF16, and F32 tensor formats, offering flexibility across environments.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3-Max
Alibaba
Qwen3-Max is Alibaba’s latest trillion-parameter large language model, designed to push performance in agentic tasks, coding, reasoning, and long-context processing. It is built atop the Qwen3 family and benefits from the architectural, training, and inference advances introduced there; mixing thinker and non-thinker modes, a “thinking budget” mechanism, and support for dynamic mode switching based on complexity. The model reportedly processes extremely long inputs (hundreds of thousands of tokens), supports tool invocation, and exhibits strong performance on benchmarks in coding, multi-step reasoning, and agent benchmarks (e.g., Tau2-Bench). While its initial variant emphasizes instruction following (non-thinking mode), Alibaba plans to bring reasoning capabilities online to enable autonomous agent behavior. Qwen3-Max inherits multilingual support and extensive pretraining on trillions of tokens, and it is delivered via API interfaces compatible with OpenAI-style functions.Starting Price: Free -
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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.Starting Price: Free -
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Gemini Enterprise
Google
Gemini Enterprise is a comprehensive AI platform built by Google Cloud designed to bring the full power of Google’s advanced AI models, agent-creation tools, and enterprise-grade data access into everyday workflows. The solution offers a unified chat interface that lets employees interact with internal documents, applications, data sources, and custom AI agents. At its core, Gemini Enterprise comprises six key components: the Gemini family of large multimodal models, an agent orchestration workbench (formerly Google Agentspace), pre-built starter agents, robust data-integration connectors to business systems, extensive security and governance controls, and a partner ecosystem for tailored integrations. It is engineered to scale across departments and enterprises, enabling users to build no-code or low-code agents that automate tasks, such as research synthesis, customer support response, code assist, contract analysis, and more, while operating within corporate compliance standards.Starting Price: $21 per month -
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Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 4.5, its latest small-language model designed to deliver near-frontier performance at significantly lower cost. The model provides similar coding and reasoning quality as the company’s mid-tier Sonnet 4, yet it runs at roughly one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed. In benchmarks cited by Anthropic, Haiku 4.5 meets or exceeds Sonnet 4’s performance in key tasks such as code generation and multi-step “computer use” workflows. It is optimized for real-time, low-latency scenarios such as chat assistants, customer service agents, and pair-programming support. Haiku 4.5 is made available via the Claude API under the identifier “claude-haiku-4-5” and supports large-scale deployments where cost, responsiveness, and near-frontier intelligence matter. Claude Haiku 4.5 is available now on Claude Code and our apps. Its efficiency means you can accomplish more within your usage limits while maintaining premium model performance.Starting Price: $1 per million input tokens -
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MiniMax M2
MiniMax
MiniMax M2 is an open source foundation model built specifically for agentic applications and coding workflows, striking a new balance of performance, speed, and cost. It excels in end-to-end development scenarios, handling programming, tool-calling, and complex, long-chain workflows with capabilities such as Python integration, while delivering inference speeds of around 100 tokens per second and offering API pricing at just ~8% of the cost of comparable proprietary models. The model supports “Lightning Mode” for high-speed, lightweight agent tasks, and “Pro Mode” for in-depth full-stack development, report generation, and web-based tool orchestration; its weights are fully open source and available for local deployment with vLLM or SGLang. MiniMax M2 positions itself as a production-ready model that enables agents to complete independent tasks, such as data analysis, programming, tool orchestration, and large-scale multi-step logic at real organizational scale.Starting Price: $0.30 per million input tokens -
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Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking is an advanced open source reasoning model developed by Moonshot AI, designed specifically for long-horizon, multi-step workflows where the system interleaves chain-of-thought processes with tool invocation across hundreds of sequential tasks. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with a total of 1 trillion parameters, yet only about 32 billion parameters are activated per inference pass, optimizing efficiency while maintaining vast capacity. It supports a context window of up to 256,000 tokens, enabling the handling of extremely long inputs and reasoning chains without losing coherence. Native INT4 quantization is built in, which reduces inference latency and memory usage without performance degradation. Kimi K2 Thinking is explicitly built for agentic workflows; it can autonomously call external tools, manage sequential logic steps (up to and typically between 200-300 tool calls in a single chain), and maintain consistent reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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Olmo 3
Ai2
Olmo 3 is a fully open model family spanning 7 billion and 32 billion parameter variants that delivers not only high-performing base, reasoning, instruction, and reinforcement-learning models, but also exposure of the entire model flow, including raw training data, intermediate checkpoints, training code, long-context support (65,536 token window), and provenance tooling. Starting with the Dolma 3 dataset (≈9 trillion tokens) and its disciplined mix of web text, scientific PDFs, code, and long-form documents, the pre-training, mid-training, and long-context phases shape the base models, which are then post-trained via supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimisation, and RL with verifiable rewards to yield the Think and Instruct variants. The 32 B Think model is described as the strongest fully open reasoning model to date, competitively close to closed-weight peers in math, code, and complex reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2 is a next-generation open large language model designed for efficient reasoning, complex problem solving, and advanced agentic behavior. It introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a long-context attention mechanism that dramatically reduces computation while preserving performance. The model is trained with a scalable reinforcement learning framework, allowing it to achieve results competitive with GPT-5 and even surpass it in its Speciale variant. DeepSeek-V3.2 also includes a large-scale agent task synthesis pipeline that generates structured reasoning and tool-use demonstrations for post-training. The model features an updated chat template with new tool-calling logic and the optional developer role for agent workflows. With gold-medal performance in the IMO and IOI 2025 competitions, DeepSeek-V3.2 demonstrates elite reasoning capabilities for both research and applied AI scenarios.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of the DeepSeek-V3.2 model, created specifically for deep reasoning and advanced problem-solving tasks. It builds on DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a custom long-context attention mechanism that reduces computational overhead while preserving high performance. Through a large-scale reinforcement learning framework and extensive post-training compute, the Speciale variant surpasses GPT-5 on reasoning benchmarks and matches the capabilities of Gemini-3.0-Pro. The model achieved gold-medal performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2025 and International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2025. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale does not support tool-calling, making it purely optimized for uninterrupted reasoning and analytical accuracy. Released under the MIT license, it provides researchers and developers an open, state-of-the-art model focused entirely on high-precision reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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Ministral 3
Mistral AI
Mistral 3 is the latest generation of open-weight AI models from Mistral AI, offering a full family of models, from small, edge-optimized versions to a flagship, large-scale multimodal model. The lineup includes three compact “Ministral 3” models (3B, 8B, and 14B parameters) designed for efficiency and deployment on constrained hardware (even laptops, drones, or edge devices), plus the powerful “Mistral Large 3,” a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 675 billion total parameters (41 billion active). The models support multimodal and multilingual tasks, not only text, but also image understanding, and have demonstrated best-in-class performance on general prompts, multilingual conversations, and multimodal inputs. The base and instruction-fine-tuned versions are released under the Apache 2.0 license, enabling broad customization and integration in enterprise and open source projects.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepScaleR
Agentica Project
DeepScaleR is a 1.5-billion-parameter language model fine-tuned from DeepSeek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-1.5B using distributed reinforcement learning and a novel iterative context-lengthening strategy that gradually increases its context window from 8K to 24K tokens during training. It was trained on ~40,000 carefully curated mathematical problems drawn from competition-level datasets like AIME (1984–2023), AMC (pre-2023), Omni-MATH, and STILL. DeepScaleR achieves 43.1% accuracy on AIME 2024, a roughly 14.3 percentage point boost over the base model, and surpasses the performance of the proprietary O1-Preview model despite its much smaller size. It also posts strong results on a suite of math benchmarks (e.g., MATH-500, AMC 2023, Minerva Math, OlympiadBench), demonstrating that small, efficient models tuned with RL can match or exceed larger baselines on reasoning tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.6V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6V is a state-of-the-art open source multimodal vision-language model from the Z.ai (GLM-V) family designed for reasoning, perception, and action. It ships in two variants: a full-scale version (106B parameters) for cloud or high-performance clusters, and a lightweight “Flash” variant (9B) optimized for local deployment or low-latency use. GLM-4.6V supports a native context window of up to 128K tokens during training, enabling it to process very long documents or multimodal inputs. Crucially, it integrates native Function Calling, meaning the model can take images, screenshots, documents, or other visual media as input directly (without manual text conversion), reason about them, and trigger tool calls, bridging “visual perception” with “executable action.” This enables a wide spectrum of capabilities; interleaved image-and-text content generation (for example, combining document understanding with text summarization or generation of image-annotated responses).Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.1V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.1V is a vision-language model, providing a powerful, compact multimodal model designed for reasoning and perception across images, text, and documents. The 9-billion-parameter variant (GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking) is built on the GLM-4-9B foundation and enhanced through a specialized training paradigm using Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum Sampling (RLCS). It supports a 64k-token context window and accepts high-resolution inputs (up to 4K images, any aspect ratio), enabling it to handle complex tasks such as optical character recognition, image captioning, chart and document parsing, video and scene understanding, GUI-agent workflows (e.g., interpreting screenshots, recognizing UI elements), and general vision-language reasoning. In benchmark evaluations at the 10 B-parameter scale, GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking achieved top performance on 23 of 28 tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.5V-Flash
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5V-Flash is an open source vision-language model, designed to bring strong multimodal capabilities into a lightweight, deployable package. It supports image, video, document, and GUI inputs, enabling tasks such as scene understanding, chart and document parsing, screen reading, and multi-image analysis. Compared to larger models in the series, GLM-4.5V-Flash offers a compact footprint while retaining core VLM capabilities like visual reasoning, video understanding, GUI task handling, and complex document parsing. It can serve in “GUI agent” workflows, meaning it can interpret screenshots or desktop captures, recognize icons or UI elements, and assist with automated desktop or web-based tasks. Although it forgoes some of the largest-model performance gains, GLM-4.5V-Flash remains versatile for real-world multimodal tasks where efficiency, lower resource usage, and broad modality support are prioritized.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.5V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5V builds on the GLM-4.5-Air foundation, using a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 106 billion total parameters and 12 billion activation parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source VLMs of similar scale across 42 public benchmarks, excelling in image, video, document, and GUI-based tasks. It supports a broad range of multimodal capabilities, including image reasoning (scene understanding, spatial recognition, multi-image analysis), video understanding (segmentation, event recognition), complex chart and long-document parsing, GUI-agent workflows (screen reading, icon recognition, desktop automation), and precise visual grounding (e.g., locating objects and returning bounding boxes). GLM-4.5V also introduces a “Thinking Mode” switch, allowing users to choose between fast responses or deeper reasoning when needed.Starting Price: Free -
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RoBERTa
Meta
RoBERTa builds on BERT’s language masking strategy, wherein the system learns to predict intentionally hidden sections of text within otherwise unannotated language examples. RoBERTa, which was implemented in PyTorch, modifies key hyperparameters in BERT, including removing BERT’s next-sentence pretraining objective, and training with much larger mini-batches and learning rates. This allows RoBERTa to improve on the masked language modeling objective compared with BERT and leads to better downstream task performance. We also explore training RoBERTa on an order of magnitude more data than BERT, for a longer amount of time. We used existing unannotated NLP datasets as well as CC-News, a novel set drawn from public news articles.Starting Price: Free -
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ESMFold
Meta
ESMFold shows how AI can give us new tools to understand the natural world, much like the microscope, which enabled us to see into the world at an infinitesimal scale and opened up a whole new understanding of life. AI can help us understand the immense scope of natural diversity, and see biology in a new way. Much of AI research has focused on helping computers understand the world in a way similar to how humans do. The language of proteins is one that is beyond human comprehension and has eluded even the most powerful computational tools. AI has the potential to open up this language to our understanding. Studying AI in new domains such as biology can also give insight into artificial intelligence more broadly. Our work reveals connections across domains: large language models that are behind advances in machine translation, natural language understanding, speech recognition, and image generation are also able to learn deep information about biology.Starting Price: Free -
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XLNet
XLNet
XLNet is a new unsupervised language representation learning method based on a novel generalized permutation language modeling objective. Additionally, XLNet employs Transformer-XL as the backbone model, exhibiting excellent performance for language tasks involving long context. Overall, XLNet achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on various downstream language tasks including question answering, natural language inference, sentiment analysis, and document ranking.Starting Price: Free -
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FreedomGPT
Age of AI
FreedomGPT is a 100% uncensored and private AI chatbot launched by Age of AI, LLC. Our VC firm invests in startups that will define the age of Artificial Intelligence and we hold openness as core. We believe AI will dramatically improve the lives of everyone on this planet if it is deployed responsibly with individual freedom as paramount. It was created to showcase the inevitability and necessity of unbiased and censor free AI. Most importantly it is 100% private. If generative AI is going to be an extension of the human psyche it must not be involuntarily exposed to others. A central Age of AI investing thesis is that everyone and every organization will need their own private LLM. We strive to invest in companies that make this a reality across numerous industry verticals.Starting Price: Free -
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CodeGen
Salesforce
CodeGen is an open-source model for program synthesis. Trained on TPU-v4. Competitive with OpenAI Codex.Starting Price: Free