Alternatives to Chinchilla
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Megatron-Turing
NVIDIA
Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model (MT-NLG), is the largest and the most powerful monolithic transformer English language model with 530 billion parameters. This 105-layer, transformer-based MT-NLG improves upon the prior state-of-the-art models in zero-, one-, and few-shot settings. It demonstrates unmatched accuracy in a broad set of natural language tasks such as, Completion prediction, Reading comprehension, Commonsense reasoning, Natural language inferences, Word sense disambiguation, etc. With the intent of accelerating research on the largest English language model till date and enabling customers to experiment, employ and apply such a large language model on downstream language tasks - NVIDIA is pleased to announce an Early Access program for its managed API service to MT-NLG mode. -
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Qwen2.5-Max
Alibaba
Qwen2.5-Max is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by the Qwen team, pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further refined through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). In evaluations, it outperforms models like DeepSeek V3 in benchmarks such as Arena-Hard, LiveBench, LiveCodeBench, and GPQA-Diamond, while also demonstrating competitive results in other assessments, including MMLU-Pro. Qwen2.5-Max is accessible via API through Alibaba Cloud and can be explored interactively on Qwen Chat.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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NVIDIA NeMo Megatron
NVIDIA
NVIDIA NeMo Megatron is an end-to-end framework for training and deploying LLMs with billions and trillions of parameters. NVIDIA NeMo Megatron, part of the NVIDIA AI platform, offers an easy, efficient, and cost-effective containerized framework to build and deploy LLMs. Designed for enterprise application development, it builds upon the most advanced technologies from NVIDIA research and provides an end-to-end workflow for automated distributed data processing, training large-scale customized GPT-3, T5, and multilingual T5 (mT5) models, and deploying models for inference at scale. Harnessing the power of LLMs is made easy through validated and converged recipes with predefined configurations for training and inference. Customizing models is simplified by the hyperparameter tool, which automatically searches for the best hyperparameter configurations and performance for training and inference on any given distributed GPU cluster configuration. -
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Mistral 7B
Mistral AI
Mistral 7B is a 7.3-billion-parameter language model that outperforms larger models like Llama 2 13B across various benchmarks. It employs Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) for faster inference and Sliding Window Attention (SWA) to efficiently handle longer sequences. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, Mistral 7B is accessible for deployment across diverse platforms, including local environments and major cloud services. Additionally, a fine-tuned version, Mistral 7B Instruct, demonstrates enhanced performance in instruction-following tasks, surpassing models like Llama 2 13B Chat.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 2
Meta
The next generation of our open source large language model. This release includes model weights and starting code for pretrained and fine-tuned Llama language models — ranging from 7B to 70B parameters. Llama 2 pretrained models are trained on 2 trillion tokens, and have double the context length than Llama 1. Its fine-tuned models have been trained on over 1 million human annotations. Llama 2 outperforms other open source language models on many external benchmarks, including reasoning, coding, proficiency, and knowledge tests. Llama 2 was pretrained on publicly available online data sources. The fine-tuned model, Llama-2-chat, leverages publicly available instruction datasets and over 1 million human annotations. We have a broad range of supporters around the world who believe in our open approach to today’s AI — companies that have given early feedback and are excited to build with Llama 2.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Mistral Large 2
Mistral AI
Mistral AI has launched the Mistral Large 2, an advanced AI model designed to excel in code generation, multilingual capabilities, and complex reasoning tasks. The model features a 128k context window, supporting dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, as well as over 80 programming languages. Mistral Large 2 is tailored for high-throughput single-node inference, making it ideal for large-context applications. Its improved performance on benchmarks like MMLU and its enhanced code generation and reasoning abilities ensure accuracy and efficiency. The model also incorporates better function calling and retrieval, supporting complex business applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Opus 3
Anthropic
Opus, our most intelligent model, outperforms its peers on most of the common evaluation benchmarks for AI systems, including undergraduate level expert knowledge (MMLU), graduate level expert reasoning (GPQA), basic mathematics (GSM8K), and more. It exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks, leading the frontier of general intelligence. All Claude 3 models show increased capabilities in analysis and forecasting, nuanced content creation, code generation, and conversing in non-English languages like Spanish, Japanese, and French.Starting Price: Free -
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Tülu 3
Ai2
Tülu 3 is an advanced instruction-following language model developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), designed to enhance capabilities in areas such as knowledge, reasoning, mathematics, coding, and safety. Built upon the Llama 3 Base, Tülu 3 employs a comprehensive four-stage post-training process: meticulous prompt curation and synthesis, supervised fine-tuning on a diverse set of prompts and completions, preference tuning using both off- and on-policy data, and a novel reinforcement learning approach to bolster specific skills with verifiable rewards. This open-source model distinguishes itself by providing full transparency, including access to training data, code, and evaluation tools, thereby closing the performance gap between open and proprietary fine-tuning methods. Evaluations indicate that Tülu 3 outperforms other open-weight models of similar size, such as Llama 3.1-Instruct and Qwen2.5-Instruct, across various benchmarks.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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Galactica
Meta
Information overload is a major obstacle to scientific progress. The explosive growth in scientific literature and data has made it ever harder to discover useful insights in a large mass of information. Today scientific knowledge is accessed through search engines, but they are unable to organize scientific knowledge alone. Galactica is a large language model that can store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge. We train on a large scientific corpus of papers, reference material, knowledge bases and many other sources. We outperform existing models on a range of scientific tasks. On technical knowledge probes such as LaTeX equations, Galactica outperforms the latest GPT-3 by 68.2% versus 49.0%. Galactica also performs well on reasoning, outperforming Chinchilla on mathematical MMLU by 41.3% to 35.7%, and PaLM 540B on MATH with a score of 20.4% versus 8.8%. -
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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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GigaChat 3 Ultra
Sberbank
GigaChat 3 Ultra is a 702-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model built from scratch to deliver frontier-level reasoning, multilingual capability, and deep Russian-language fluency. It activates just 36 billion parameters per token, enabling massive scale with practical inference speeds. The model was trained on a 14-trillion-token corpus combining natural, multilingual, and high-quality synthetic data to strengthen reasoning, math, coding, and linguistic performance. Unlike modified foreign checkpoints, GigaChat 3 Ultra is entirely original—giving developers full control, modern alignment, and a dataset free of inherited limitations. Its architecture leverages MoE, MTP, and MLA to match open-source ecosystems and integrate easily with popular inference and fine-tuning tools. With leading results on Russian benchmarks and competitive performance on global tasks, GigaChat 3 Ultra represents one of the largest and most capable open-source LLMs in the world.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Llama
Meta
Llama (Large Language Model Meta AI) is a state-of-the-art foundational large language model designed to help researchers advance their work in this subfield of AI. Smaller, more performant models such as Llama enable others in the research community who don’t have access to large amounts of infrastructure to study these models, further democratizing access in this important, fast-changing field. Training smaller foundation models like Llama is desirable in the large language model space because it requires far less computing power and resources to test new approaches, validate others’ work, and explore new use cases. Foundation models train on a large set of unlabeled data, which makes them ideal for fine-tuning for a variety of tasks. We are making Llama available at several sizes (7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B parameters) and also sharing a Llama model card that details how we built the model in keeping with our approach to Responsible AI practices. -
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DeepSeek-V2
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V2 is a state-of-the-art Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model introduced by DeepSeek-AI, characterized by its economical training and efficient inference capabilities. With a total of 236 billion parameters, of which only 21 billion are active per token, it supports a context length of up to 128K tokens. DeepSeek-V2 employs innovative architectures like Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) for efficient inference by compressing the Key-Value (KV) cache and DeepSeekMoE for cost-effective training through sparse computation. This model significantly outperforms its predecessor, DeepSeek 67B, by saving 42.5% in training costs, reducing the KV cache by 93.3%, and enhancing generation throughput by 5.76 times. Pretrained on an 8.1 trillion token corpus, DeepSeek-V2 excels in language understanding, coding, and reasoning tasks, making it a top-tier performer among open-source models.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Tiny Aya
Cohere AI
Tiny Aya is a family of open-weight multilingual language models from Cohere Labs designed to deliver powerful, adaptable AI that can run efficiently on local devices, including phones and laptops, without requiring constant cloud connectivity. It focuses on enabling high-quality text understanding and generation across more than 70 languages, including many lower-resource languages that are often underserved by mainstream models. Built with lightweight architectures around 3.35 billion parameters, Tiny Aya is optimized for balanced multilingual representation and realistic compute constraints, making it suitable for edge deployment and offline use. The models support downstream adaptation and instruction tuning, allowing developers to customize behavior for specific applications while maintaining strong cross-lingual performance.Starting Price: Free -
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StarCoder
BigCode
StarCoder and StarCoderBase are Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub, including from 80+ programming languages, Git commits, GitHub issues, and Jupyter notebooks. Similar to LLaMA, we trained a ~15B parameter model for 1 trillion tokens. We fine-tuned StarCoderBase model for 35B Python tokens, resulting in a new model that we call StarCoder. We found that StarCoderBase outperforms existing open Code LLMs on popular programming benchmarks and matches or surpasses closed models such as code-cushman-001 from OpenAI (the original Codex model that powered early versions of GitHub Copilot). With a context length of over 8,000 tokens, the StarCoder models can process more input than any other open LLM, enabling a wide range of interesting applications. For example, by prompting the StarCoder models with a series of dialogues, we enabled them to act as a technical assistant.Starting Price: Free -
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Mathstral
Mistral AI
As a tribute to Archimedes, whose 2311th anniversary we’re celebrating this year, we are proud to release our first Mathstral model, a specific 7B model designed for math reasoning and scientific discovery. The model has a 32k context window published under the Apache 2.0 license. We’re contributing Mathstral to the science community to bolster efforts in advanced mathematical problems requiring complex, multi-step logical reasoning. The Mathstral release is part of our broader effort to support academic projects, it was produced in the context of our collaboration with Project Numina. Akin to Isaac Newton in his time, Mathstral stands on the shoulders of Mistral 7B and specializes in STEM subjects. It achieves state-of-the-art reasoning capacities in its size category across various industry-standard benchmarks. In particular, it achieves 56.6% on MATH and 63.47% on MMLU, with the following MMLU performance difference by subject between Mathstral 7B and Mistral 7B.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest flagship model, delivering major improvements in reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and real-world problem solving. It outperforms previous models and leading competitors on benchmarks such as SWE-bench, multilingual coding tests, and advanced agent evaluations. Opus 4.5 also introduces stronger safety features, including significantly higher resistance to prompt injection and improved alignment across sensitive tasks. Developers gain new controls through the Claude API—like effort parameters, context compaction, and advanced tool use—allowing for more efficient, longer-running agentic workflows. Product updates across Claude, Claude Code, the Chrome extension, and Excel integrations expand how users interact with the model for software engineering, research, and everyday productivity. Overall, Claude Opus 4.5 marks a substantial step forward in capability, reliability, and usability for developers, enterprises, and end users. -
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PanGu-Σ
Huawei
Significant advancements in the field of natural language processing, understanding, and generation have been achieved through the expansion of large language models. This study introduces a system which utilizes Ascend 910 AI processors and the MindSpore framework to train a language model with over a trillion parameters, specifically 1.085T, named PanGu-{\Sigma}. This model, which builds upon the foundation laid by PanGu-{\alpha}, takes the traditionally dense Transformer model and transforms it into a sparse one using a concept known as Random Routed Experts (RRE). The model was efficiently trained on a dataset of 329 billion tokens using a technique called Expert Computation and Storage Separation (ECSS), leading to a 6.3-fold increase in training throughput via heterogeneous computing. Experimentation indicates that PanGu-{\Sigma} sets a new standard in zero-shot learning for various downstream Chinese NLP tasks. -
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LongLLaMA
LongLLaMA
This repository contains the research preview of LongLLaMA, a large language model capable of handling long contexts of 256k tokens or even more. LongLLaMA is built upon the foundation of OpenLLaMA and fine-tuned using the Focused Transformer (FoT) method. LongLLaMA code is built upon the foundation of Code Llama. We release a smaller 3B base variant (not instruction tuned) of the LongLLaMA model on a permissive license (Apache 2.0) and inference code supporting longer contexts on hugging face. Our model weights can serve as the drop-in replacement of LLaMA in existing implementations (for short context up to 2048 tokens). Additionally, we provide evaluation results and comparisons against the original OpenLLaMA models.Starting Price: Free -
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Solar Pro 2
Upstage AI
Solar Pro 2 is Upstage’s latest frontier‑scale large language model, designed to power complex tasks and agent‑like workflows across domains such as finance, healthcare, and legal. Packaged in a compact 31 billion‑parameter architecture, it delivers top‑tier multilingual performance, especially in Korean, where it outperforms much larger models on benchmarks like Ko‑MMLU, Hae‑Rae, and Ko‑IFEval, while also excelling in English and Japanese. Beyond superior language understanding and generation, Solar Pro 2 offers next‑level intelligence through an advanced Reasoning Mode that significantly boosts multi‑step task accuracy on challenges ranging from general reasoning (MMLU, MMLU‑Pro, HumanEval) to complex mathematics (Math500, AIME) and software engineering (SWE‑Bench Agentless), achieving problem‑solving efficiency comparable to or exceeding that of models twice its size. Enhanced tool‑use capabilities enable the model to interact seamlessly with external APIs and data sources.Starting Price: $0.1 per 1M tokens -
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Stable Beluga
Stability AI
Stability AI and its CarperAI lab proudly announce Stable Beluga 1 and its successor Stable Beluga 2 (formerly codenamed FreeWilly), two powerful new, open access, Large Language Models (LLMs). Both models demonstrate exceptional reasoning ability across varied benchmarks. Stable Beluga 1 leverages the original LLaMA 65B foundation model and was carefully fine-tuned with a new synthetically-generated dataset using Supervised Fine-Tune (SFT) in standard Alpaca format. Similarly, Stable Beluga 2 leverages the LLaMA 2 70B foundation model to achieve industry-leading performance.Starting Price: Free -
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NLP Cloud
NLP Cloud
Fast and accurate AI models suited for production. Highly-available inference API leveraging the most advanced NVIDIA GPUs. We selected the best open-source natural language processing (NLP) models from the community and deployed them for you. Fine-tune your own models - including GPT-J - or upload your in-house custom models, and deploy them easily to production. Upload or Train/Fine-Tune your own AI models - including GPT-J - from your dashboard, and use them straight away in production without worrying about deployment considerations like RAM usage, high-availability, scalability... You can upload and deploy as many models as you want to production.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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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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Vicuna
lmsys.org
Vicuna-13B is an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT. Preliminary evaluation using GPT-4 as a judge shows Vicuna-13B achieves more than 90%* quality of OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Bard while outperforming other models like LLaMA and Stanford Alpaca in more than 90%* of cases. The cost of training Vicuna-13B is around $300. The code and weights, along with an online demo, are publicly available for non-commercial use.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI
Mistral Large 3 is a next-generation, open multimodal AI model built with a powerful sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture featuring 41B active parameters out of 675B total. Designed from scratch on NVIDIA H200 GPUs, it delivers frontier-level reasoning, multilingual performance, and advanced image understanding while remaining fully open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. The model achieves top-tier results on modern instruction benchmarks, positioning it among the strongest permissively licensed foundation models available today. With native support across vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and major cloud providers, Mistral Large 3 offers exceptional accessibility and performance efficiency. Its design enables enterprise-grade customization, letting teams fine-tune or adapt the model for domain-specific workflows and proprietary applications. Mistral Large 3 represents a major advancement in open AI, offering frontier intelligence without sacrificing transparency or control.Starting Price: Free -
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Ministral 8B
Mistral AI
Mistral AI has introduced two advanced models for on-device computing and edge applications, named "les Ministraux": Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B. These models excel in knowledge, commonsense reasoning, function-calling, and efficiency within the sub-10B parameter range. They support up to 128k context length and are designed for various applications, including on-device translation, offline smart assistants, local analytics, and autonomous robotics. Ministral 8B features an interleaved sliding-window attention pattern for faster and more memory-efficient inference. Both models can function as intermediaries in multi-step agentic workflows, handling tasks like input parsing, task routing, and API calls based on user intent with low latency and cost. Benchmark evaluations indicate that les Ministraux consistently outperforms comparable models across multiple tasks. As of October 16, 2024, both models are available, with Ministral 8B priced at $0.1 per million tokens.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Alibaba
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is Alibaba’s latest flagship reasoning-enhanced large language model, built as an extension of the Qwen3-Max family and designed to deliver state-of-the-art analytical performance and multi-step reasoning capabilities. It scales up from one of the largest parameter bases in the Qwen ecosystem and incorporates advanced reinforcement learning and adaptive tool integration so the model can leverage search, memory, and code interpreter functions dynamically during inference to address difficult multi-stage tasks with higher accuracy and contextual depth compared with standard generative responses. Qwen3-Max-Thinking introduces a unique Thinking Mode that exposes deliberate, step-by-step reasoning before final outputs, enabling transparency and traceability of logical chains, and can be tuned with configurable “thinking budgets” to balance performance quality with computational cost. -
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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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GPT-NeoX
EleutherAI
An implementation of model parallel autoregressive transformers on GPUs, based on the DeepSpeed library. This repository records EleutherAI's library for training large-scale language models on GPUs. Our current framework is based on NVIDIA's Megatron Language Model and has been augmented with techniques from DeepSpeed as well as some novel optimizations. We aim to make this repo a centralized and accessible place to gather techniques for training large-scale autoregressive language models, and accelerate research into large-scale training.Starting Price: Free -
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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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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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MiMo-V2-Flash
Xiaomi Technology
MiMo-V2-Flash is an open weight large language model developed by Xiaomi based on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that blends high performance with inference efficiency. It has 309 billion total parameters but activates only 15 billion active parameters per inference, letting it balance reasoning quality and computational efficiency while supporting extremely long context handling, for tasks like long-document understanding, code generation, and multi-step agent workflows. It incorporates a hybrid attention mechanism that interleaves sliding-window and global attention layers to reduce memory usage and maintain long-range comprehension, and it uses a Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) design that accelerates inference by processing batches of tokens in parallel. MiMo-V2-Flash delivers very fast generation speeds (up to ~150 tokens/second) and is optimized for agentic applications requiring sustained reasoning and multi-turn interactions.Starting Price: Free -
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Selene 1
atla
Atla's Selene 1 API offers state-of-the-art AI evaluation models, enabling developers to define custom evaluation criteria and obtain precise judgments on their AI applications' performance. Selene outperforms frontier models on commonly used evaluation benchmarks, ensuring accurate and reliable assessments. Users can customize evaluations to their specific use cases through the Alignment Platform, allowing for fine-grained analysis and tailored scoring formats. The API provides actionable critiques alongside accurate evaluation scores, facilitating seamless integration into existing workflows. Pre-built metrics, such as relevance, correctness, helpfulness, faithfulness, logical coherence, and conciseness, are available to address common evaluation scenarios, including detecting hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation applications or comparing outputs to ground truth data. -
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Mixtral 8x7B
Mistral AI
Mixtral 8x7B is a high-quality sparse mixture of experts model (SMoE) with open weights. Licensed under Apache 2.0. Mixtral outperforms Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks with 6x faster inference. It is the strongest open-weight model with a permissive license and the best model overall regarding cost/performance trade-offs. In particular, it matches or outperforms GPT-3.5 on most standard benchmarks.Starting Price: Free -
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Phi-4-reasoning
Microsoft
Phi-4-reasoning is a 14-billion parameter transformer-based language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks, including math, coding, algorithmic problem solving, and planning. Trained via supervised fine-tuning of Phi-4 on carefully curated "teachable" prompts and reasoning demonstrations generated using o3-mini, it generates detailed reasoning chains that effectively leverage inference-time compute. Phi-4-reasoning incorporates outcome-based reinforcement learning to produce longer reasoning traces. It outperforms significantly larger open-weight models such as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B and approaches the performance levels of the full DeepSeek-R1 model across a wide range of reasoning tasks. Phi-4-reasoning is designed for environments with constrained computing or latency. Fine-tuned with synthetic data generated by DeepSeek-R1, it provides high-quality, step-by-step problem solving. -
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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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Llama 3.1
Meta
The open source AI model you can fine-tune, distill and deploy anywhere. Our latest instruction-tuned model is available in 8B, 70B and 405B versions. Using our open ecosystem, build faster with a selection of differentiated product offerings to support your use cases. Choose from real-time inference or batch inference services. Download model weights to further optimize cost per token. Adapt for your application, improve with synthetic data and deploy on-prem or in the cloud. Use Llama system components and extend the model using zero shot tool use and RAG to build agentic behaviors. Leverage 405B high quality data to improve specialized models for specific use cases.Starting Price: Free -
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LFM2
Liquid AI
LFM2 is a next-generation series of on-device foundation models built to deliver the fastest generative-AI experience across a wide range of endpoints. It employs a new hybrid architecture that achieves up to 2x faster decode and prefill performance than comparable models, and up to 3x improvements in training efficiency compared to the previous generation. These models strike an optimal balance of quality, latency, and memory for deployment on embedded systems, allowing real-time, on-device AI across smartphones, laptops, vehicles, wearables, and other endpoints, enabling millisecond inference, device resilience, and full data sovereignty. Available in three dense checkpoints (0.35 B, 0.7 B, and 1.2 B parameters), LFM2 demonstrates benchmark performance that outperforms similarly sized models in tasks such as knowledge recall, mathematics, multilingual instruction-following, and conversational dialogue evaluations. -
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Nemotron 3 Super
NVIDIA
Nemotron-3 Super is part of NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 family of open models designed to enable advanced agentic AI systems that can reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows across complex environments. The model introduces a hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts architecture that combines the efficiency of state-space Mamba layers with the contextual understanding of transformer attention, allowing it to process long sequences and complex reasoning tasks with high accuracy and throughput. This architecture activates only a subset of model parameters for each token, improving computational efficiency while maintaining strong reasoning capabilities and enabling scalable inference for large workloads. Nemotron-3 Super contains roughly 120 billion parameters with around 12 billion active during inference, accelerating multi-step reasoning and collaborative agent interactions across large contexts. -
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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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Ferret
Apple
An End-to-End MLLM that Accept Any-Form Referring and Ground Anything in Response. Ferret Model - Hybrid Region Representation + Spatial-aware Visual Sampler enable fine-grained and open-vocabulary referring and grounding in MLLM. GRIT Dataset (~1.1M) - A Large-scale, Hierarchical, Robust ground-and-refer instruction tuning dataset. Ferret-Bench - A multimodal evaluation benchmark that jointly requires Referring/Grounding, Semantics, Knowledge, and Reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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Aya
Cohere AI
Aya is a new state-of-the-art, open-source, massively multilingual, generative large language research model (LLM) covering 101 different languages — more than double the number of languages covered by existing open-source models. Aya helps researchers unlock the powerful potential of LLMs for dozens of languages and cultures largely ignored by most advanced models on the market today. We are open-sourcing both the Aya model, as well as the largest multilingual instruction fine-tuned dataset to-date with a size of 513 million covering 114 languages. This data collection includes rare annotations from native and fluent speakers all around the world, ensuring that AI technology can effectively serve a broad global audience that have had limited access to-date. -
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Qwen-7B
Alibaba
Qwen-7B is the 7B-parameter version of the large language model series, Qwen (abbr. Tongyi Qianwen), proposed by Alibaba Cloud. Qwen-7B is a Transformer-based large language model, which is pretrained on a large volume of data, including web texts, books, codes, etc. Additionally, based on the pretrained Qwen-7B, we release Qwen-7B-Chat, a large-model-based AI assistant, which is trained with alignment techniques. The features of the Qwen-7B series include: Trained with high-quality pretraining data. We have pretrained Qwen-7B on a self-constructed large-scale high-quality dataset of over 2.2 trillion tokens. The dataset includes plain texts and codes, and it covers a wide range of domains, including general domain data and professional domain data. Strong performance. In comparison with the models of the similar model size, we outperform the competitors on a series of benchmark datasets, which evaluates natural language understanding, mathematics, coding, etc. And more.Starting Price: Free -
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ByteDance Seed
ByteDance
Seed Diffusion Preview is a large-scale, code-focused language model that uses discrete-state diffusion to generate code non-sequentially, achieving dramatically faster inference without sacrificing quality by decoupling generation from the token-by-token bottleneck of autoregressive models. It combines a two-stage curriculum, mask-based corruption followed by edit-based augmentation, to robustly train a standard dense Transformer, striking a balance between speed and accuracy and avoiding shortcuts like carry-over unmasking to preserve principled density estimation. The model delivers an inference speed of 2,146 tokens/sec on H20 GPUs, outperforming contemporary diffusion baselines while matching or exceeding their accuracy on standard code benchmarks, including editing tasks, thereby establishing a new speed-quality Pareto frontier and demonstrating discrete diffusion’s practical viability for real-world code generation.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.7
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.7 is an advanced large language model designed to significantly elevate coding, reasoning, and agentic task performance. It delivers major improvements over GLM-4.6 in multilingual coding, terminal-based tasks, and real-world software engineering benchmarks such as SWE-bench and Terminal Bench. GLM-4.7 supports “thinking before acting,” enabling more stable, accurate, and controllable behavior in complex coding and agent workflows. The model also introduces strong gains in UI and frontend generation, producing cleaner webpages, better layouts, and more polished slides. Enhanced tool-using capabilities allow GLM-4.7 to perform more effectively in web browsing, automation, and agent benchmarks. Its reasoning and mathematical performance has improved substantially, showing strong results on advanced evaluation suites. GLM-4.7 is available via Z.ai, API platforms, coding agents, and local deployment for flexible adoption.Starting Price: Free
