Compare the Top AI Models for Linux as of May 2026 - Page 4

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    MiniMax M2.5
    MiniMax M2.5 is a frontier AI model engineered for real-world productivity across coding, agentic workflows, search, and office tasks. Extensively trained with reinforcement learning in hundreds of thousands of real-world environments, it achieves state-of-the-art performance in benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Verified and BrowseComp. The model demonstrates strong architectural thinking, decomposing complex problems before generating code across more than ten programming languages. M2.5 operates at high throughput speeds of up to 100 tokens per second, enabling faster completion of multi-step tasks. It is optimized for efficient reasoning, reducing token usage and execution time compared to previous versions. With dramatically lower pricing than competing frontier models, it delivers powerful performance at minimal cost. Integrated into MiniMax Agent, M2.5 supports professional-grade office workflows, financial modeling, and autonomous task execution.
    Starting Price: Free
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    DeepSeek-V4

    DeepSeek-V4

    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-V4 is a next-generation open-source language model designed for high-performance reasoning, coding, and long-context intelligence. It introduces a powerful architecture with up to one million token context length, enabling seamless handling of large datasets and complex multi-step workflows. The model comes in two variants: DeepSeek-V4-Pro for maximum performance and DeepSeek-V4-Flash for efficiency and speed. DeepSeek-V4-Pro features 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion activated, delivering near state-of-the-art performance comparable to leading closed-source models. It excels in agentic coding, mathematical reasoning, and world knowledge tasks. The model integrates advanced attention mechanisms, including token-wise compression and sparse attention, significantly reducing compute and memory costs. It is also optimized for AI agents, supporting tool use and multi-step workflows.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Qwen3.5

    Qwen3.5

    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5 is a next-generation open-weight multimodal large language model designed to power native vision-language agents. The flagship release, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, combines a hybrid linear attention architecture with sparse mixture-of-experts, activating only 17 billion parameters per forward pass out of 397 billion total to maximize efficiency. It delivers strong benchmark performance across reasoning, coding, multilingual understanding, visual reasoning, and agent-based tasks. The model expands language support from 119 to 201 languages and dialects while introducing a 1M-token context window in its hosted version, Qwen3.5-Plus. Built for multimodal tasks, it processes text, images, and video with advanced spatial reasoning and tool integration. Qwen3.5 also incorporates scalable reinforcement learning environments to improve general agent capabilities. Designed for developers and enterprises, it enables efficient, tool-augmented, multimodal AI workflows.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mistral Small 4
    Mistral Small 4 is an advanced open-source AI model developed by Mistral AI that combines reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities into a single system. It unifies the strengths of previous models such as Magistral for reasoning, Pixtral for multimodal processing, and Devstral for agentic coding tasks. The model can handle both text and image inputs, allowing it to perform tasks ranging from conversational chat to visual analysis and document understanding. Built with a mixture-of-experts architecture, Mistral Small 4 delivers efficient performance while scaling to complex workloads. It also features a configurable reasoning parameter that allows users to switch between fast responses and deeper analytical outputs. With a large context window and optimized inference performance, the model supports long-form interactions and complex workflows.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Leanstral

    Leanstral

    Mistral AI

    Leanstral is an open-source code agent developed by Mistral AI specifically designed to work with the Lean 4 proof assistant. The model focuses on generating code while also formally verifying its correctness against strict mathematical or software specifications. Unlike traditional coding assistants, Leanstral integrates directly with formal proof systems to ensure that generated code satisfies defined logical requirements. Its architecture is optimized for proof engineering tasks and operates efficiently with sparse model parameters. Leanstral is released under the Apache 2.0 license, making it freely accessible for developers, researchers, and organizations to use and customize. The model is designed to operate within real-world formal repositories rather than isolated problem environments. By combining code generation with formal verification, Leanstral aims to reduce the need for manual human review in complex software and mathematical development.
    Starting Price: Free
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    MiniMax M2.7
    MiniMax M2.7 is an advanced AI model designed to enhance real-world productivity across coding, search, and office workflows. It is trained with reinforcement learning across numerous real-world environments, enabling it to handle complex, multi-step tasks effectively. The model excels in problem-solving by breaking down challenges before generating solutions across multiple programming languages. It delivers high-speed performance with rapid token generation, allowing tasks to be completed efficiently. With optimized reasoning and cost-effective pricing, it provides powerful capabilities while minimizing resource usage. It also achieves strong performance in software engineering benchmarks, reducing incident response time and improving development efficiency. Additionally, it supports advanced agentic workflows and professional-grade office tasks, making it highly versatile for modern work environments.
    Starting Price: Free
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    MiMo-V2-Pro

    MiMo-V2-Pro

    Xiaomi Technology

    Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro is a flagship AI foundation model designed to power real-world agentic workflows and complex task execution. It is built to function as the core intelligence behind agent systems, enabling orchestration of multi-step processes and production-level tasks. The model demonstrates strong capabilities in coding, tool usage, and search-based tasks, performing competitively on global benchmarks. With its large-scale architecture and extended context window, it can handle long and complex interactions efficiently. MiMo-V2-Pro is optimized for practical applications, delivering reliable performance across development, automation, and enterprise workflows.
    Starting Price: $1/million tokens
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    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
    Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is part of the Qwen3.5 “Medium” model series, designed as a highly efficient, multimodal foundation model that balances strong reasoning ability with practical deployment requirements. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 35 billion total parameters but activates only about 3 billion per token, allowing it to deliver performance comparable to much larger models while significantly reducing computational cost. The model integrates a hybrid attention mechanism that combines linear attention with standard attention layers, enabling efficient long-context processing and improved scalability for complex tasks. As a native vision-language model, it can process both text and visual inputs, supporting use cases such as multimodal reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows. It is designed to function as a general-purpose “AI agent,” capable of planning, tool use, and structured problem solving rather than just conversational responses.
    Starting Price: Free
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    DeepSeek-V4-Pro
    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: Free
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    DeepSeek-V4-Flash
    DeepSeek-V4-Flash is a high-efficiency Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model designed for fast, scalable reasoning and text generation. It features 284 billion total parameters with 13 billion activated parameters, delivering strong performance while optimizing computational cost. The model supports an extensive context window of up to one million tokens, enabling it to process large documents and complex workflows with ease. Its hybrid attention architecture enhances long-context efficiency by reducing memory and compute requirements. Trained on over 32 trillion tokens, DeepSeek-V4-Flash demonstrates solid capabilities across knowledge, reasoning, and coding tasks. It is designed for scenarios where speed and efficiency are critical, offering a balance between performance and resource usage. The model also supports multiple reasoning modes, allowing users to adjust between faster outputs and deeper analysis.
    Starting Price: Free
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    NeuralWing

    NeuralWing

    Emmi AI

    NeuralWing is a real-time neural simulation and design optimization model for transonic aircraft aerodynamics. It is built around the largest 3D transonic wing dataset, created from 30,000 steady-state CFD simulations of a 3D wing in the transonic regime, with variations across four geometry parameters and two inflow conditions. Using Emmi’s AB-UPT surrogate model trained on this data, NeuralWing enables users to modify wing geometry, test optimizations, and maximize aerodynamic efficiency in seconds. The model supports transonic 3D wing simulation, geometry and inflow variations, real-time inference, and design-parameter optimization. Its inputs include a geometry mesh in STL format, speed, and angle of attack, while its outputs include pressure, friction, velocity fields, and integral forces such as lift and drag. Geometry meshes are created in real time from four design parameters in a differentiable manner, allowing fast exploration of design changes. NeuralWing achieves 99.5% accu
    Starting Price: Free
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    NeuralMould
    NeuralMould is Emmi AI’s Large Engineering Model for injection molding, described as a new gold standard in AI for engineering: any geometry, any material, any injection gates, one model. It lets users select from a range of geometries and test injection, material, and gate placement parameters to simulate filling behavior in seconds, rapidly compare multiple scenarios, optimize process KPIs, and avoid frozen flow fronts. Injection molding simulation is highly complex because it involves multi-physics calculations that model transient flow of viscous plastic through thin-walled geometries under extreme temperature and pressure conditions. NeuralMould captures these phenomena across a wide range of injecting conditions and mold geometries, achieving performance comparable to traditional solvers with a fraction of the computation time. The model supports multi-material scenarios, fast prototyping, multi-gate configurations, and multiple process parameters through a scalable transformer-b
    Starting Price: Free
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    StarCoder

    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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    Llama 2
    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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    Code Llama
    Code Llama is a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate code. Code Llama is state-of-the-art for publicly available LLMs on code tasks, and has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for current developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning to code. Code Llama has the potential to be used as a productivity and educational tool to help programmers write more robust, well-documented software. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts. Code Llama is free for research and commercial use. Code Llama is built on top of Llama 2 and is available in three models: Code Llama, the foundational code model; Codel Llama - Python specialized for Python; and Code Llama - Instruct, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.
    Starting Price: Free
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    CogVideoX

    CogVideoX

    CogVideoX

    CogVideoX is a text-to-video generation tool. Before running the model, please refer to this guide to see how we use the GLM-4 model to optimize the prompt. This is crucial because the model is trained with long prompts, and a good prompt directly affects the quality of the generated video. Contains the inference code and fine-tuning code of SAT weights. It is recommended to improve based on the CogVideoX model structure. Innovative researchers use this code to better perform rapid stacking and development. A detailed wooden toy ship with intricately carved masts and sails is seen gliding smoothly over a plush, blue carpet that mimics the waves of the sea. The ship's hull is painted a rich brown, with tiny windows. The carpet, soft and textured, provides a perfect backdrop, resembling an oceanic expanse. Surrounding the ship are various other toys and children's items, hinting at a playful environment.
    Starting Price: Free
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    TinyLlama

    TinyLlama

    TinyLlama

    The TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3 trillion tokens. With some proper optimization, we can achieve this within a span of "just" 90 days using 16 A100-40G GPUs. We adopted exactly the same architecture and tokenizer as Llama 2. This means TinyLlama can be plugged and played in many open-source projects built upon Llama. Besides, TinyLlama is compact with only 1.1B parameters. This compactness allows it to cater to a multitude of applications demanding a restricted computation and memory footprint.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Pixtral Large

    Pixtral Large

    Mistral AI

    Pixtral Large is a 124-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model developed by Mistral AI, building upon their Mistral Large 2 architecture. It integrates a 123-billion-parameter multimodal decoder with a 1-billion-parameter vision encoder, enabling advanced understanding of documents, charts, and natural images while maintaining leading text comprehension capabilities. With a context window of 128,000 tokens, Pixtral Large can process at least 30 high-resolution images simultaneously. The model has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks such as MathVista, DocVQA, and VQAv2, surpassing models like GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5 Pro. Pixtral Large is available under the Mistral Research License for research and educational use, and under the Mistral Commercial License for commercial applications.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Yi-Large
    Yi-Large is a proprietary large language model developed by 01.AI, offering a 32k context length with both input and output costs at $2 per million tokens. It stands out with its advanced capabilities in natural language processing, common-sense reasoning, and multilingual support, performing on par with leading models like GPT-4 and Claude3 in various benchmarks. Yi-Large is designed for tasks requiring complex inference, prediction, and language understanding, making it suitable for applications like knowledge search, data classification, and creating human-like chatbots. Its architecture is based on a decoder-only transformer with enhancements such as pre-normalization and Group Query Attention, and it has been trained on a vast, high-quality multilingual dataset. This model's versatility and cost-efficiency make it a strong contender in the AI market, particularly for enterprises aiming to deploy AI solutions globally.
    Starting Price: $0.19 per 1M input token
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    DeepSeek R2

    DeepSeek R2

    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek R2 is the anticipated successor to DeepSeek R1, a groundbreaking AI reasoning model launched in January 2025 by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. Building on R1’s success, which disrupted the AI industry with its cost-effective performance rivaling top-tier models like OpenAI’s o1, R2 promises a quantum leap in capabilities. It is expected to deliver exceptional speed and human-like reasoning, excelling in complex tasks such as advanced coding and high-level mathematical problem-solving. Leveraging DeepSeek’s innovative Mixture-of-Experts architecture and efficient training methods, R2 aims to outperform its predecessor while maintaining a low computational footprint, potentially expanding its reasoning abilities to languages beyond English.
    Starting Price: Free
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    BitNet

    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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    Gemma 3n

    Gemma 3n

    Google DeepMind

    Gemma 3n is our state-of-the-art open multimodal model, engineered for on-device performance and efficiency. Made for responsive, low-footprint local inference, Gemma 3n empowers a new wave of intelligent, on-the-go applications. It analyzes and responds to combined images and text, with video and audio coming soon. Build intelligent, interactive features that put user privacy first and work reliably offline. Mobile-first architecture, with a significantly reduced memory footprint. Co-designed by Google's mobile hardware teams and industry leaders. 4B active memory footprint with the ability to create submodels for quality-latency tradeoffs. Gemma 3n is our first open model built on this groundbreaking, shared architecture, allowing developers to begin experimenting with this technology today in an early preview.
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    GigaChat 3 Ultra
    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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    Composer 1.5
    Composer 1.5 is the latest agentic coding model from Cursor that balances speed and intelligence for everyday code tasks by scaling reinforcement learning approximately 20x more than its predecessor, enabling stronger performance on real-world programming challenges. It’s designed as a “thinking model” that generates internal reasoning tokens to analyze a user’s codebase and plan next steps, responding quickly to simple problems and engaging deeper reasoning on complex ones, while remaining interactive and fast for daily development workflows. To handle long-running tasks, Composer 1.5 introduces self-summarization, allowing the model to compress and carry forward context when it reaches context limits, which helps maintain accuracy across varying input lengths. Internal benchmarks show it surpasses Composer 1 in coding tasks, especially on more difficult issues, making it more capable for interactive use within Cursor’s environment.
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    Gemma 4

    Gemma 4

    Google

    Gemma 4 is an AI model introduced by Google and built on the Gemini architecture to deliver improved performance and flexibility. The model is designed to run efficiently on a single GPU or TPU, making it more accessible to developers and researchers. Gemma 4 enhances capabilities in natural language understanding and text generation, supporting a wide range of AI-driven applications. Its architecture allows it to handle complex tasks while maintaining efficient resource usage. Developers can use the model to build applications that rely on advanced language processing and automation. The design emphasizes scalability so that it can support both smaller projects and larger AI systems. By combining efficiency with powerful language capabilities, Gemma 4 helps advance the development of modern AI solutions.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Qwen3.6

    Qwen3.6

    Alibaba

    Qwen3.6 is a large language model developed by Alibaba as part of its Qwen AI model family, designed for real-world applications and advanced reasoning tasks. It focuses on improving stability, usability, and performance compared to earlier versions. The model supports multimodal capabilities, allowing it to process and reason across text, images, and other data types. Qwen3.6 is particularly strong in coding and developer workflows, offering improved accuracy for complex programming tasks. It uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, enabling efficient performance while maintaining large-scale model capabilities. The model is designed to be deployable in production environments, including enterprise and cloud-based systems. It can be integrated into applications or run locally using open-weight variants. Overall, Qwen3.6 delivers a powerful, efficient, and versatile AI solution for modern use cases.
    Starting Price: Free
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    PaLM

    PaLM

    Google

    PaLM API is an easy and safe way to build on top of our best language models. Today, we’re making an efficient model available, in terms of size and capabilities, and we’ll add other sizes soon. The API also comes with an intuitive tool called MakerSuite, which lets you quickly prototype ideas and, over time, will have features for prompt engineering, synthetic data generation and custom-model tuning — all supported by robust safety tools. Select developers can access the PaLM API and MakerSuite in Private Preview today, and stay tuned for our waitlist soon.
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    PaLM 2

    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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    Gemma

    Gemma

    Google

    Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. Developed by Google DeepMind and other teams across Google, Gemma is inspired by Gemini, and the name reflects the Latin gemma, meaning “precious stone.” Accompanying our model weights, we’re also releasing tools to support developer innovation, foster collaboration, and guide the responsible use of Gemma models. Gemma models share technical and infrastructure components with Gemini, our largest and most capable AI model widely available today. This enables Gemma 2B and 7B to achieve best-in-class performance for their sizes compared to other open models. And Gemma models are capable of running directly on a developer laptop or desktop computer. Notably, Gemma surpasses significantly larger models on key benchmarks while adhering to our rigorous standards for safe and responsible outputs.
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    Gemma 2

    Gemma 2

    Google

    A family of state-of-the-art, light-open models created from the same research and technology that were used to create Gemini models. These models incorporate comprehensive security measures and help ensure responsible and reliable AI solutions through selected data sets and rigorous adjustments. Gemma models achieve exceptional comparative results in their 2B, 7B, 9B, and 27B sizes, even outperforming some larger open models. With Keras 3.0, enjoy seamless compatibility with JAX, TensorFlow, and PyTorch, allowing you to effortlessly choose and change frameworks based on task. Redesigned to deliver outstanding performance and unmatched efficiency, Gemma 2 is optimized for incredibly fast inference on various hardware. The Gemma family of models offers different models that are optimized for specific use cases and adapt to your needs. Gemma models are large text-to-text lightweight language models with a decoder, trained in a huge set of text data, code, and mathematical content.
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