Current Frontier & Open-Weight Models
31 model families, assistants and resources — proprietary frontier models, open-weight models, and sites for comparing them
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OpenAI GPT & ChatGPT
OpenAI's GPT model family and the ChatGPT assistant, also available through the OpenAI API and Codex.
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Claude (Anthropic)
Anthropic's AI assistant and model family — the Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku tiers — built with a focus on safety, helpfulness and honesty.
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Google Gemini (formerly Bard)
Google's AI assistant and multimodal Gemini model family, the successor to Bard and PaLM 2.
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xAI Grok
xAI's Grok models and assistant, aimed at coding, agentic workflows and real-time information tasks.
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Mistral AI
A European AI platform offering open and commercial models, assistants and agents that enterprises can customize, fine-tune and deploy.
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DeepSeek
The AI lab behind the open-weight DeepSeek-V4 and DeepSeek-R1 models, with a chat app and an API.
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Qwen (Alibaba)
Alibaba's Qwen models and chatbot, covering image and video understanding, document processing, web search and tool use.
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Kimi (Moonshot AI)
Moonshot AI's Kimi assistant and models, built for agentic coding and knowledge work.
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Z.ai GLM
The Z.ai assistant, powered by the GLM model family, for building websites, writing code and handling long-horizon tasks.
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MiniMax
A multimodal model company building AI-native products used by hundreds of millions of people.
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Meta Muse
Meta's Muse models, starting with Muse Spark, available through Meta AI and the Meta Model API. Muse Spark is Meta's first frontier model without open weights.
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Meta Llama
Meta's open-weight Llama model family. Meta ended the Llama line in 2026 and moved to its Muse models.
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Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat)
Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, search and getting work done across your day.
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Perplexity
An AI-powered answer engine that searches the web and responds with cited sources.
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Cohere Command
Cohere's Command family of scalable language models for enterprise applications.
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Amazon Nova
Amazon's family of foundation models and services, available through AWS.
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IBM Granite
IBM's family of open, trusted models for business, covering language, vision, speech and guardrail models.
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Microsoft Phi
Microsoft's efficient small language models for generative AI applications, available in Azure AI Foundry.
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Google Gemma
Google DeepMind's family of open models, built from the research behind Gemini.
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OpenAI open-weight models (gpt-oss)
OpenAI's open-weight language models, which can be downloaded and run on your own infrastructure.
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NVIDIA Nemotron
NVIDIA's family of open models, released with open weights, training data and recipes, for building specialized reasoning agents.
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Olmo (Ai2)
Ai2's fully open language model, released together with the complete model flow.
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Arena AI Leaderboard
A public leaderboard where people compare and vote on the best LLM, image and code models through real-world evaluation.
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Artificial Analysis
Independent benchmarks comparing AI models and API providers on quality, price, output speed and latency.
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Hugging Face Models
The open hub for exploring, comparing and downloading machine learning models, including most open-weight LLMs.
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AI21 Jamba
AI21 Labs' Jamba family — hybrid Mamba-Transformer models with a long context window, available as open weights and through an API.
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Falcon (TII)
The Technology Innovation Institute's Falcon model family from Abu Dhabi, released with open weights for research and commercial use.
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Liquid AI
Liquid Foundation Models (LFM) — compact, memory-efficient models designed to run on phones, laptops and edge devices.
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SmolLM (Hugging Face)
Hugging Face's SmolLM family of small, fully open language models, with training data and recipes published openly.
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Reka
Reka's multimodal models that understand text, images, audio and video, offered through an API and a chat assistant.
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OpenRouter Models
A single API and catalogue for hundreds of LLMs from many providers, with side-by-side pricing, context length and usage rankings.
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Earlier-Generation Models
12 models and tools from the first wave of generative AI — open-source foundations, instruction-tuned chat models and early chatbots
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OpenLLaMA
A permissively licensed open-source reproduction of Meta AI's LLaMA 7B, trained on the RedPajama dataset — ideal for research and commercial applications.
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Falcon-40B
A 40B-parameter causal decoder-only model built by TII, trained on 1,000B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. One of the top open-source LLMs.
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Gorilla LLM
Large Language Model connected with massive APIs — enables LLMs to accurately produce API calls and write programs that interact with the world.
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GPT-4 (OpenAI)
OpenAI's most advanced large multimodal model — accepts image and text inputs, produces text outputs, and exhibits human-level performance on professional and academic benchmarks.
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PaLM 2 (Google)
A state-of-the-art language model from Google with improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities — powers many Google AI products. Since succeeded by the Gemini models.
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BLOOM
An autoregressive Large Language Model trained on vast amounts of text data using industrial-scale compute — a multilingual, open-access model by BigScience.
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Stanford Alpaca
An instruction-following LLaMA model fine-tuned by Stanford — trained on 52K instruction-following demonstrations, enabling strong instruction-following behaviour at low cost.
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Flan-UL2
An encoder-decoder model based on the T5 architecture from Google, fine-tuned with the Flan collection — excels at instruction-following and diverse NLP tasks.
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Vicuna-13B
An open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT — achieves 90%+ of ChatGPT quality in evaluations.
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ChatRWKV
Like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (100% RNN) language model — the only RNN that matches transformers in quality and scaling, while being faster and saving VRAM.
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OpenChatKit
Provides a powerful, open-source base to create both specialised and general-purpose chatbots for various applications — by Together AI.
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GPT4All
A free-to-use, locally running, privacy-aware chatbot — no GPU or internet required. Run powerful LLMs on your own hardware with complete data privacy.
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