Best AI Models in China
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What are AI Models in China?
AI models are systems designed to simulate human intelligence by learning from data and solving complex tasks. They include specialized types like Large Language Models (LLMs) for text generation, image models for visual recognition and editing, and video models for processing and analyzing dynamic content. These models power applications such as chatbots, facial recognition, video summarization, and personalized recommendations. Their capabilities rely on advanced algorithms, extensive training datasets, and robust computational resources. AI models are transforming industries by automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and enabling creative innovations. Compare and read user reviews of the best AI Models in China currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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AI Models in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform offer businesses access to pre-trained and customizable models for a variety of use cases, from natural language processing to image recognition. These models are powered by the latest advancements in machine learning and can be tailored to meet specific business requirements. By offering flexible model-building and deployment tools, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform enables businesses to integrate AI into their operations seamlessly. New customers receive $300 in free credits, allowing them to explore different AI models and experiment with adapting them to their specific needs. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform's extensive catalog of models provides a foundation for businesses to implement cutting-edge AI solutions and drive innovation.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits)
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Google AI Studio
Google
Google AI Studio provides a wide range of pre-built AI models that users can leverage for various applications, from natural language processing to image recognition. These models are designed to be flexible and adaptable, allowing businesses to integrate AI capabilities into their systems with minimal setup. The platform offers both general-purpose models for common tasks as well as specialized models for more advanced use cases, such as sentiment analysis or predictive maintenance. Furthermore, Google AI Studio allows users to customize and fine-tune these models to meet specific business needs, making it easier to deploy AI solutions that are both accurate and scalable.Starting Price: Free -
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LM-Kit.NET
LM-Kit
LM-Kit.NET now lets your .NET apps run the latest open models entirely on device, including Meta Llama 4, DeepSeek V3-0324, Microsoft Phi 4 (plus mini and multimodal variants), Mistral Mixtral 8x22B, Google Gemma 3, and Alibaba Qwen 2.5 VL, so you get cutting-edge language, vision, and audio performance without calling any external service. A continuously updated model catalog with setup instructions and quantized builds is available at docs.lm-kit.com/lm-kit-net/guides/getting-started/model-catalog.html, letting you integrate new releases quickly while keeping latency low and data fully private.Starting Price: Free (Community) or $1000/year -
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s advanced everyday AI model built for coding, knowledge work, problem-solving, visual outputs, and production AI workflows. The model delivers stronger performance than Opus 4.8 at the same base price and is positioned as a cost-effective alternative close to Claude Fable 5 frontier intelligence. Claude Opus 5 supports configurable effort settings so users can optimize for intelligence, speed, or token efficiency. It performs especially well on software engineering, automation, computer use, scientific research, and knowledge work evaluations. The model is available on Claude Max, Claude Pro, Claude API, Claude Code, and other Claude platforms, with Fast mode available at a higher price. Built for developers, researchers, enterprises, and everyday Claude users, Claude Opus 5 helps teams complete complex tasks with stronger verification, careful iteration, and practical cost efficiency.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s newest Flash model built for efficient, reliable, production-scale AI agents. The model improves on Gemini 3.5 Flash with stronger coding, knowledge work, multimodal performance, computer use, and agentic workflow execution. Gemini 3.6 Flash is designed to use fewer output tokens, take fewer reasoning steps, reduce unnecessary tool calls, and lower the cost of complex AI tasks. It supports document parsing, chart analysis, data analysis, report drafting, code migrations, visual understanding, and multi-agent orchestration. The model is available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, Google Antigravity, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Gemini Enterprise app, and the Gemini app. Built for developers and enterprises, Gemini 3.6 Flash helps teams build faster, lower-cost, and more capable AI agents across coding, analysis, productivity, and multimodal workloads.Starting Price: $1.50 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's latest AI model, designed to deliver stronger agentic capabilities for coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work while maintaining the efficiency of the Sonnet family. The model can independently plan tasks, use external tools such as browsers and terminals, and complete complex workflows that previously required larger AI models. Sonnet 5 significantly improves upon Claude Sonnet 4.6 with better reasoning, coding performance, reduced hallucinations, stronger safety behavior, and more effective autonomous task execution. It is available across Claude plans and through the Claude API with OpenAI-style developer access for application integration. Anthropic also introduced lower introductory API pricing, making Sonnet 5 a cost-effective option for developers building AI-powered products. By combining advanced agentic capabilities with improved safety and competitive pricing, Claude Sonnet 5 helps developers build more capable AI applications.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Luna is the fast and affordable model in OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 series, built to bring strong capability to users and developers who need practical intelligence with lower overhead. In the new GPT-5.6 naming system, the number identifies the model generation, while Sol, Terra, and Luna identify durable capability tiers that can advance on their own cadence, giving people and developers clearer choices across intelligence, speed, and cost. Luna sits alongside Sol, the flagship model, and Terra, the balanced model for everyday work, as part of a family designed for broader access to next-generation AI. During the limited preview, GPT-5.6 models are initially available through the API and Codex to a select group of trusted partners and organizations, with plans for broader availability in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. OpenAI developed GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with its most robust safeguards to date, with configurations matched to each model’s capabilities.Starting Price: $0.20 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol is a next-generation OpenAI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, biology analysis, cybersecurity support, and complex knowledge work. It is part of the GPT-5.6 model family alongside Terra and Luna, with Sol positioned as the flagship model for the most demanding tasks. The model introduces a new max reasoning effort for deeper thinking and an ultra mode that uses subagents to accelerate complex work beyond a single-agent approach. GPT-5.6 Sol shows strong performance in command-line coding workflows, long-horizon security tasks, genomics analysis, vulnerability research, debugging, patch development, and defensive testing. OpenAI pairs the model’s stronger capabilities with layered safeguards, real-time misuse classifiers, account-level review, automated red-teaming, and enterprise controls for sensitive workflows. GPT-5.6 Sol helps developers, enterprises, researchers, and security teams complete sophisticated technical work.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Max is Qwen’s most capable model to date, built as a Max-class AI model for coding, work, research, long-horizon tasks, and multimodal agents. It scales to 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion active parameters and is available through QwenCloud. The model is designed to complete complex, open-ended tasks end to end with greater reliability and minimal human involvement. Qwen3.8-Max supports autonomous coding workflows, agentic development, research reproduction, visual reasoning, document understanding, video analysis, and real-world productivity tasks. It can integrate with popular agent frameworks and coding assistants, including Claude Code, Codex, Qoder CLI, Qwen Code, and OpenClaw. Built for developers, researchers, enterprises, and AI agent builders, Qwen3.8-Max helps teams automate sophisticated work across code, documents, tools, interfaces, and multimodal content.Starting Price: $2 per 1M (input) -
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GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Terra is a balanced model in the GPT-5.6 series designed for everyday work, coding, agentic workflows, cybersecurity support, biology analysis, and enterprise automation. It sits between GPT-5.6 Sol, the flagship model, and GPT-5.6 Luna, the faster and lower-cost option. Terra is positioned to deliver competitive performance to GPT-5.5 while being significantly cheaper to run. The model supports improved reasoning, coding, tool coordination, long-horizon workflows, and legitimate defensive security work. It is part of a model family built with layered safeguards, including trained refusals, real-time misuse classifiers, account-level review, differentiated access, monitoring, and continued red-team testing. GPT-5.6 Terra helps developers, enterprises, and technical teams access strong AI capabilities with a more practical balance of intelligence, speed, and cost.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GLM-5.2
Zhipu AI
GLM-5.2 is an advanced AI foundation model designed to support complex reasoning, coding, and long-range agentic tasks. It helps developers, teams, and organizations build intelligent systems that can understand instructions, solve technical problems, and assist with demanding workflows. The model is especially useful for software engineering, automation, research, and productivity-focused applications. GLM-5.2 is built to handle large amounts of context, making it suitable for projects that require deeper understanding across extended conversations, documents, or codebases. Its mixture-of-experts design helps balance strong performance with more efficient model operation. GLM-5.2 gives businesses and developers a powerful AI tool for creating smarter applications, improving technical workflows, and supporting advanced digital experiences.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic
Claude Mythos 5 is Anthropic’s most advanced restricted-access AI model, designed for trusted cyberdefenders, infrastructure providers, and select research organizations. It uses the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5 but provides lifted safeguards in approved areas for specialized high-trust use cases. The model delivers exceptional capabilities in cybersecurity, software engineering, scientific research, long-context reasoning, vision, and autonomous task execution. Anthropic initially deployed Claude Mythos 5 through Project Glasswing in collaboration with the U.S. government to help protect critical software and infrastructure. The model also shows strong potential in life sciences, including protein design, molecular biology hypothesis generation, and genomics research. Claude Mythos 5 is built for organizations that need frontier AI capabilities under controlled, trusted-access conditions.Starting Price: $10 per 1 million (input) -
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Grok 4.5
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI’s advanced AI model built for coding, agentic tasks, engineering work, and knowledge-intensive productivity. The model is trained on coding, science, engineering, and math data, with reinforcement learning focused on multi-step software engineering and technical workflows. It is designed to handle real-world development tasks such as debugging, Rust and C/C++ work, terminal tasks, long-running agentic rollouts, and end-to-end app creation from a single prompt. Grok 4.5 is also built for fast serving, token efficiency, and lower-cost execution, with pricing based on input and output token usage. Beyond coding, the model supports business productivity tasks in Grok Build, including Excel modeling, PowerPoint diagram creation, Word writing, and research-assisted office workflows. Available through Grok Build, Cursor, and the SpaceXAI API console, Grok 4.5 gives developers and teams a high-performance model for building software, automating work, and more.Starting Price: $2 per million input tokens -
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Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5 is an advanced AI model from Anthropic designed to assist with software engineering, research, knowledge work, vision tasks, and complex reasoning. Built on the Mythos-class architecture, it delivers significantly improved performance across coding, analysis, and long-context workflows. The model can handle extended autonomous tasks while maintaining focus and consistency over large amounts of information. Claude Fable 5 integrates advanced reasoning, multimodal understanding, and memory capabilities to support professional and enterprise use cases. Anthropic has implemented specialized safeguards that automatically route certain high-risk cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and model distillation requests to a different model. Claude Fable 5 helps organizations and professionals accelerate complex work while maintaining strong safety and governance controls.Starting Price: $10 per 1 million (input) -
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s most capable model, built for frontier intelligence scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep reasoning, and multimodal understanding. The model has 2.8 trillion parameters and uses Kimi Delta Attention, a hybrid linear attention mechanism, along with Attention Residuals for long-context performance. Kimi K3 supports a 1 million token context window, making it useful for analyzing large codebases, long documents, complex knowledge bases, and multi-step workflows. It includes native visual understanding for images and videos, with support for structured message formats, base64 image input, uploaded video files, and multimodal reasoning. Developers can use Kimi K3 through an OpenAI-compatible API with support for streaming, structured JSON output, partial mode, custom tools, dynamic tool loading, and automatic context caching.Starting Price: $3 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Gemini 3.5 Pro
Google
Gemini 3.5 Pro is Google’s anticipated next-generation Pro model in the Gemini 3.5 series, designed for advanced reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, and agentic workflows. It is expected to build on Google’s Gemini 3 family with stronger performance for complex tasks that require planning, context handling, tool use, and deep problem solving. The model is aimed at users who need more power than faster Flash models for demanding development, research, automation, and enterprise AI use cases. Gemini 3.5 Pro is expected to support sophisticated workflows across text, code, files, multimodal inputs, and connected tools. Developers and organizations will likely use it through Google’s AI platforms for building assistants, agents, coding tools, analysis systems, and productivity applications. As an upcoming Pro-tier model, Gemini 3.5 Pro is positioned for high-value workloads where accuracy, reasoning quality, and advanced task execution matter more than maximum speed. -
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Kimi K2.7 Code
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.7 Code is an open-source, coding-focused agentic AI model developed by Moonshot AI for long-horizon software engineering tasks. It is designed to improve coding performance, agent workflows, and real-world development assistance compared with earlier Kimi K2 versions. The model supports a 256K context window, making it useful for working with large codebases, long technical documents, and complex multi-step programming tasks. Kimi K2.7 Code is available through Kimi Code and API access, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible options for easier integration into developer workflows. It is also listed on Hugging Face and supports deployment through inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, and KTransformers. With improved agentic capabilities, long-context support, and reduced thinking-token usage compared with K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code gives developers a flexible open-source option for AI-assisted coding.Starting Price: Free -
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Muse Spark 1.2
Meta
Muse Spark 1.2 is Meta’s coding-focused model update designed to power Muse Code and improve software engineering workflows. The model is built for code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding, long-horizon development tasks, and end-to-end developer workflows. Muse Spark 1.2 was co-trained with Muse Code to improve performance inside the terminal coding agent environment. It supports planning, goal conditioning, context compaction, subagent coordination, and iterative coding workflows across large repositories. The model was trained with expanded coding compute, diverse development environments, self-improvement loops, and long-running engineering tasks. Built for AI developers and software teams, Muse Spark 1.2 helps agents plan, write, validate, debug, and optimize code with greater autonomy.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Muse Spark 1.1
Meta
Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta Superintelligence Labs built for agentic tasks, coding, computer use, tool use, and multimodal understanding. The model improves on the original Muse Spark with stronger performance in planning, orchestration, long-context work, coding workflows, and external app interactions. Muse Spark 1.1 can manage a 1 million token context window, remember earlier actions, retrieve important information, compact context, and delegate tasks across parallel subagents. It is designed to operate across tools, MCP servers, custom skills, browsers, native apps, scripts, images, video, PDFs, and audio-based workflows. Developers can access Muse Spark 1.1 through the new Meta Model API public preview, while users can try it in Thinking mode in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google’s latest frontier AI model designed to combine advanced intelligence, high-speed performance, and agentic workflow execution for developers, enterprises, and everyday users. Built as part of the Gemini 3.5 family, the model excels at coding, long-horizon reasoning, multimodal understanding, and complex multi-step automation tasks while delivering significantly faster output speeds than many competing frontier models. Gemini 3.5 Flash powers AI agents capable of planning, executing, and managing workflows such as application development, codebase maintenance, data analysis, and financial document preparation through the Antigravity harness. The model also supports rich multimodal experiences by generating interactive graphics, dynamic web interfaces, animations, and advanced visual content. Gemini 3.5 Flash is integrated across Google products including the Gemini app, Google Search AI Mode, Google Antigravity, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, and more.Starting Price: $1.50 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Composer 2.5
Cursor
Composer 2.5 is the latest AI coding model released by Cursor, offering major improvements in intelligence, collaboration, and long-task performance compared to Composer 2. The model is designed to follow complex instructions more accurately while providing a smoother and more natural user experience during coding sessions. Cursor enhanced Composer 2.5 through larger-scale training, more advanced reinforcement learning environments, and improved behavioral tuning focused on communication and effort calibration. The model uses targeted reinforcement learning with textual feedback to correct specific mistakes during training, helping it avoid issues like invalid tool calls or poor coding behavior. Composer 2.5 was also trained using significantly more synthetic coding tasks, enabling it to handle increasingly difficult programming challenges and real-world development scenarios.Starting Price: $0.50/M input -
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DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Pro is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-context understanding. It features 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion activated parameters, enabling high performance while maintaining efficiency. The model supports an exceptionally large context window of up to one million tokens, allowing it to process extensive documents and workflows. It uses a hybrid attention architecture to optimize long-context performance and reduce computational cost. DeepSeek-V4-Pro is trained on over 32 trillion tokens, improving its knowledge and reasoning capabilities. It also includes advanced optimization techniques for stability and faster convergence during training. The model supports multiple reasoning modes, allowing users to balance speed and accuracy based on their needs. Overall, it provides a powerful open-source solution for complex AI tasks and large-scale applications.Starting Price: $0.435 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-5.5
OpenAI
GPT-5.5 is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex, real-world tasks with greater autonomy and efficiency. It quickly understands user intent and can execute multi-step workflows such as coding, research, data analysis, and document creation with minimal guidance. Instead of requiring step-by-step instructions, GPT-5.5 plans tasks, uses tools, evaluates outputs, and continues working until completion. It excels in knowledge work, software development, and analytical problem-solving, helping users move from idea to execution faster. The model is built to operate across tools and environments, making it highly effective for modern digital workflows. With strong reasoning and persistence, GPT-5.5 enables individuals and teams to complete demanding work more efficiently and accurately.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8 is a powerful AI model from Anthropic designed to deliver stronger coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and advanced collaboration capabilities for developers, enterprises, and AI-powered productivity tasks. The model builds on Claude Opus 4.7 with improvements across coding benchmarks, practical knowledge work, alignment, and reliability while maintaining the same pricing structure. Claude Opus 4.8 introduces enhanced honesty and reasoning behavior, making it less likely to generate unsupported claims or overlook flaws during complex tasks such as software development and agent execution. The release also includes new features such as effort control settings, fast mode for lower-cost high-speed processing, and dynamic workflows in Claude Code that allow the system to coordinate hundreds of parallel subagents for large-scale tasks.Starting Price: $5 per 1M (input) -
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Laguna S 2.1
Poolside
Laguna S 2.1 is an open weight agentic coding model designed to pursue longer-horizon work and make effective use of reasoning. It uses a 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 8 billion active parameters per token and supports a context window of up to one million tokens in both thinking and no-thinking modes. Its compact active size makes it suitable for complex work on local machines while remaining competitive with models many times larger on terminal, software-engineering, codebase-question-answering, and tool-use benchmarks. Laguna S 2.1 is built to keep working through difficult tasks with greater persistence, verification, and willingness to backtrack instead of declaring success too early. In demonstrated runs, it built and validated a browser rendering engine from an empty folder, optimized an agent harness for faster execution and substantially lower memory allocation, and completed extended mathematical research using the tools in its environment. -
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Sakana Fugu Ultra
Sakana AI
Sakana Fugu Ultra is the higher-performance version of Sakana Fugu, built to coordinate a deeper pool of expert AI agents for demanding, high-stakes tasks. The model operates through a single OpenAI-compatible API while dynamically orchestrating multiple powerful models behind the scenes. It is designed to maximize answer quality for complex workflows such as coding, code review, paper reproduction, cybersecurity analysis, scientific reasoning, patent investigation, and autonomous research. Fugu Ultra uses learned orchestration techniques to assemble, route, and coordinate agents instead of relying on hand-designed workflows or a single frontier model. Users can access advanced multi-agent intelligence without manually managing separate models, prompts, or collaboration patterns. Sakana Fugu Ultra is built for teams that need stronger performance, deeper reasoning, and more reliable results on difficult multi-step problems.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
Google
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a specialized cyber-focused model built on Gemini 3.5 Flash and fine-tuned to find, validate, and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities efficiently at scale. It is designed for defensive security workflows where organizations need to identify critical weaknesses faster and generate reliable patches before those issues can be exploited. Flash’s combination of performance and efficiency makes it a strong foundation for scanning code, reasoning about security flaws, validating whether findings are real, and proposing targeted remediations across large software environments. Within CodeMender, multiple Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber agents work together and combine their findings into a single report, helping the system investigate vulnerabilities from different angles and improve the quality of the final result. This coordinated agent setup delivers competitive frontier performance on CyberGym, a benchmark for evaluating cybersecurity capabilities. -
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Seed2.1 Pro
ByteDance
Seed2.1 Pro is a next-generation AI productivity model built to handle complex, real-world work across general agents, code engineering, and multimodal understanding. It reliably executes multi-step tasks for high-value office work and everyday consultation, including project planning, file processing, research, tool use, spreadsheet analysis, lesson-plan slide generation, and industry report creation across tools and environments. In software development workflows, Seed2.1 Pro strengthens end-to-end delivery by improving requirement understanding, architecture design, coding, debugging, implementation, and validation. Its agent capabilities are designed to make steady progress on difficult tasks and return practical, verifiable results rather than isolated responses. The model also advances knowledge, reasoning, visual understanding, spatial reasoning, and long-context processing, giving agents a stronger foundation for complex decision-making and execution. -
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Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Nano is a compact, open large language model in NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 family, designed for efficient agentic reasoning, conversational AI, and coding tasks. It uses a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts Mamba-Transformer architecture that activates only a small subset of parameters per token, enabling low-latency inference while maintaining strong accuracy and reasoning performance. It has approximately 31.6 billion total parameters with around 3.2 billion active (3.6 billion including embeddings), allowing it to achieve higher accuracy than previous Nemotron 2 Nano while using less computation per forward pass. Nemotron 3 Nano supports long-context processing of up to one million tokens, enabling it to handle large documents, multi-step workflows, and extended reasoning chains in a single pass. It is designed for high-throughput, real-time execution, excelling in multi-turn conversations, tool calling, and agent-based workflows where tasks require planning, reasoning, and more. -
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MiniMax M3
MiniMax
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight multimodal AI model designed for coding, agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and complex automation tasks. The model combines frontier-level coding performance, native multimodal understanding, and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. MiniMax M3 uses MiniMax Sparse Attention to improve long-context efficiency while reducing compute requirements for large-scale inputs. It supports text, image, and video understanding, making it useful for workflows that combine code, documents, visual references, and tool-driven tasks. The model is built for repository-scale reasoning, software engineering, autonomous task execution, tool calling, and multi-step agent workflows. MiniMax M3 helps developers, AI teams, and enterprises build capable agents that can reason across large contexts and work with multimodal information.Starting Price: Free