Best AI Models in the USA - Page 15
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SEELE AI
SEELE AI
SEELE AI is an end-to-end multimodal platform that transforms simple text prompts into immersive, interactive 3D game worlds, enabling users to generate environments, assets, characters, and interactions, then remix and evolve them dynamically. It supports real-time asset generation, spatial generation, and infinite remixing of game content; users can build natural scenery, parkour, or racing game levels, and interactive spaces simply by describing them. Backed by cutting-edge models (including those from Baidu), it aims to reduce traditional 3D game development complexity, giving creators the ability to rapidly prototype and explore virtual worlds without needing deep technical expertise. SEELE’s core features include text-to-3D generation, infinite remixing, interactive world editing, and the generation of game content that is playable and modifiable. -
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Qwen3-Omni
Alibaba
Qwen3-Omni is a natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation model that processes text, images, audio, and video and delivers real-time streaming responses in text and natural speech. It uses a Thinker-Talker architecture with a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design, early text-first pretraining, and mixed multimodal training to support strong performance across all modalities without sacrificing text or image quality. The model supports 119 text languages, 19 speech input languages, and 10 speech output languages. It achieves state-of-the-art results: across 36 audio and audio-visual benchmarks, it hits open-source SOTA on 32 and overall SOTA on 22, outperforming or matching strong closed-source models such as Gemini-2.5 Pro and GPT-4o. To reduce latency, especially in audio/video streaming, Talker predicts discrete speech codecs via a multi-codebook scheme and replaces heavier diffusion approaches. -
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier model, designed to excel in long-horizon coding, agentic workflows, and intensive computer use while maintaining safety and alignment. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark (for software engineering) and leads on OSWorld (a computer use benchmark), with the ability to sustain focus over 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. The model introduces improvements in tool handling, memory management, and context processing, enabling more sophisticated reasoning, better domain understanding (from finance and law to STEM), and deeper code comprehension. It supports context editing and memory tools to sustain long conversations or multi-agent tasks, and allows code execution and file creation within Claude apps. Sonnet 4.5 is deployed at AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3), with classifiers protecting against inputs or outputs tied to risky domains, and includes mitigations against prompt injection. -
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Sora 2
OpenAI
Sora is OpenAI’s advanced text-to-video generation model that takes text, images, or short video inputs and produces new videos up to 20 seconds long (1080p, vertical or horizontal format). It also supports remixing or extending existing video clips and blending media inputs. Sora is accessible via ChatGPT Plus/Pro and through a web interface. The system includes a featured/recent feed showcasing community creations. It embeds strong content policies to restrict sensitive or copyrighted content, and videos generated include metadata tags to indicate AI provenance. With the announcement of Sora 2, OpenAI is pushing the next iteration: Sora 2 is being released with enhancements in physical realism, controllability, audio generation (speech and sound effects), and deeper expressivity. Alongside Sora 2, OpenAI launched a standalone iOS app called Sora, which resembles a short-video social experience. -
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Veo 3.1
Google
Veo 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous model to enable longer and more versatile AI-generated videos. With this version, users can create multi-shot clips guided by multiple prompts, generate sequences from three reference images, and use frames in video workflows that transition between a start and end image, both with native, synchronized audio. The scene extension feature allows extension of a final second of a clip by up to a full minute of newly generated visuals and sound. Veo 3.1 supports editing of lighting and shadow parameters to improve realism and scene consistency, and offers advanced object removal that reconstructs backgrounds to remove unwanted items from generated footage. These enhancements make Veo 3.1 sharper in prompt-adherence, more cinematic in presentation, and broader in scale compared to shorter-clip models. Developers can access Veo 3.1 via the Gemini API or through the tool Flow, targeting professional video workflows. -
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MAI-Image-1
Microsoft AI
MAI-Image-1 is the first fully in-house text-to-image generation model from Microsoft that has debuted in the top ten on the LMArena benchmark. It was engineered with a goal of delivering genuine value for creators by emphasizing rigorous data selection and nuanced evaluation tailored to real-world creative use cases, and by incorporating direct feedback from professionals in the creative industries. The model is designed to deliver real flexibility, visual diversity, and practical value. MAI-Image-1 excels at generating photorealistic imagery, for example, realistic lighting (bounce light, reflections), landscapes, and more, and it offers a compelling balance of speed and quality, enabling users to get their ideas on screen faster, iterate quickly, and then transfer work into other tools for refinement. It stands out when compared with many larger, slower models. -
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Ultralytics
Ultralytics
Ultralytics offers a full-stack vision-AI platform built around its flagship YOLO model suite that enables teams to train, validate, and deploy computer-vision models with minimal friction. The platform allows you to drag and drop datasets, select from pre-built templates or fine-tune custom models, then export to a wide variety of formats for cloud, edge or mobile deployment. With support for tasks including object detection, instance segmentation, image classification, pose estimation and oriented bounding-box detection, Ultralytics’ models deliver high accuracy and efficiency and are optimized for both embedded devices and large-scale inference. The product also includes Ultralytics HUB, a web-based tool where users can upload their images/videos, train models online, preview results (even on a phone), collaborate with team members, and deploy via an inference API. -
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Odyssey
Odyssey ML
Odyssey is a frontier interactive video model that enables instant, real-time generation of video you can interact with. Just type a prompt, and the system begins streaming minutes of video that respond to your input. It shifts video from a static playback format to a dynamic, action-aware stream: the model is causal and autoregressive, generating each frame based solely on prior frames and your actions rather than a fixed timeline, enabling continuous adaptation of camera angles, scenery, characters, and events. The platform begins streaming video almost instantly, producing new frames every ~50 milliseconds (about 20 fps), so you don’t wait minutes for a clip, you engage in an evolving experience. Under the hood, the model is trained via a novel multi-stage pipeline to transition from fixed-clip generation to open-ended interactive video, allowing you to type or speak commands and explore an AI-imagined world that reacts in real time. -
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SWE-1.5
Cognition
SWE-1.5 is the latest agent-model release by Cognition, purpose-built for software engineering and characterized by a “frontier-size” architecture comprising hundreds of billions of parameters and optimized end-to-end (model, inference engine, and agent harness) for both speed and intelligence. It achieves near-state-of-the-art coding performance and sets a new benchmark in latency, delivering inference speeds up to 950 tokens/second, roughly six times faster than its predecessor Haiku 4.5 and thirteen times faster than Sonnet 4.5. The model was trained using extensive reinforcement learning in realistic coding-agent environments with multi-turn workflows, unit tests, quality rubrics, and browser-based agentic execution; it also benefits from tightly integrated software tooling and high-throughput hardware (including thousands of GB200 NVL72 chips and a custom hypervisor infrastructure). -
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GPT-5-Codex-Mini
OpenAI
GPT-5-Codex-Mini is a compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex designed to deliver roughly four times more usage with only a slight tradeoff in capability. It’s optimized for handling routine or lighter programming tasks while maintaining reliable output quality. Developers can access it through the CLI and IDE extension by signing in with ChatGPT, with API access coming soon. The system automatically suggests switching to GPT-5-Codex-Mini when users near 90% of their rate limits, helping extend uninterrupted usage. ChatGPT Plus, Business, and Edu users receive 50% higher rate limits, offering more flexibility for frequent workflows. Pro and Enterprise accounts are prioritized for faster processing, ensuring smoother, high-speed performance across larger workloads. -
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GPT-5.1 Instant
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Instant is a high-performance AI model designed for everyday users that combines speed, responsiveness, and improved conversational warmth. The model uses adaptive reasoning to instantly select how much computation is required for a task, allowing it to deliver fast answers without sacrificing understanding. It emphasizes stronger instruction-following, enabling users to give precise directions and expect consistent compliance. The model also introduces richer personality controls so chat tone can be set to Default, Friendly, Professional, Candid, Quirky, or Efficient, with experiments in deeper voice modulation. Its core value is to make interactions feel more natural and less robotic while preserving high intelligence across writing, coding, analysis, and reasoning. GPT-5.1 Instant routes user requests automatically from the base interface, with the system choosing whether this variant or the deeper “Thinking” model is applied. -
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GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking is the advanced reasoning model variant in the GPT-5.1 series, designed to more precisely allocate “thinking time” based on prompt complexity, responding faster to simpler requests and spending more effort on difficult problems. On a representative task distribution, it is roughly twice as fast on the fastest tasks and twice as slow on the slowest compared with its predecessor. Its responses are crafted to be clearer, with less jargon and fewer undefined terms, making deep analytical work more accessible and understandable. The model dynamically adjusts its reasoning depth, achieving a better balance between speed and thoroughness, particularly when dealing with technical concepts or multi-step questions. By combining high reasoning capacity with improved clarity, GPT-5.1 Thinking offers a powerful tool for tackling complex tasks, such as detailed analysis, coding, research, or technical explanations, while reducing unnecessary latency for routine queries. -
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Gemini 3 Deep Think
Google
The most advanced model from Google DeepMind, Gemini 3, sets a new bar for model intelligence by delivering state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal understanding across text, image, and video. It surpasses its predecessor on key AI benchmarks and excels at deeper problems such as scientific reasoning, complex coding, spatial logic, and visual-/video-based understanding. The new “Deep Think” mode pushes the boundaries even further, offering enhanced reasoning for very challenging tasks, outperforming Gemini 3 Pro on benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam and ARC-AGI. Gemini 3 is now available across Google’s ecosystem, enabling users to learn, build, and plan at new levels of sophistication. With context windows up to one million tokens, more granular media-processing options, and specialized configurations for tool use, the model brings better precision, depth, and flexibility for real-world workflows. -
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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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HunyuanOCR
Tencent
Tencent Hunyuan is a large-scale, multimodal AI model family developed by Tencent that spans text, image, video, and 3D modalities, designed for general-purpose AI tasks like content generation, visual reasoning, and business automation. Its model lineup includes variants optimized for natural language understanding, multimodal vision-language comprehension (e.g., image & video understanding), text-to-image creation, video generation, and 3D content generation. Hunyuan models leverage a mixture-of-experts architecture and other innovations (like hybrid “mamba-transformer” designs) to deliver strong performance on reasoning, long-context understanding, cross-modal tasks, and efficient inference. For example, the vision-language model Hunyuan-Vision-1.5 supports “thinking-on-image”, enabling deep multimodal understanding and reasoning on images, video frames, diagrams, or spatial data. -
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Gen-4.5
Runway
Runway Gen-4.5 is a cutting-edge text-to-video AI model from Runway that delivers cinematic, highly realistic video outputs with unmatched control and fidelity. It represents a major advance in AI video generation, combining efficient pre-training data usage and refined post-training techniques to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Gen-4.5 excels at dynamic, controllable action generation, maintaining temporal consistency and allowing precise command over camera choreography, scene composition, timing, and atmosphere, all from a single prompt. According to independent benchmarks, it currently holds the highest rating on the “Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video” leaderboard with 1,247 Elo points, outperforming competing models from larger labs. It enables creators to produce professional-grade video content, from concept to execution, without needing traditional film equipment or expertise. -
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Wan2.5
Alibaba
Wan2.5-Preview introduces a next-generation multimodal architecture designed to redefine visual generation across text, images, audio, and video. Its unified framework enables seamless multimodal inputs and outputs, powering deeper alignment through joint training across all media types. With advanced RLHF tuning, the model delivers superior video realism, expressive motion dynamics, and improved adherence to human preferences. Wan2.5 also excels in synchronized audio-video generation, supporting multi-voice output, sound effects, and cinematic-grade visuals. On the image side, it offers exceptional instruction following, creative design capabilities, and pixel-accurate editing for complex transformations. Together, these features make Wan2.5-Preview a breakthrough platform for high-fidelity content creation and multimodal storytelling.Starting Price: Free -
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Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
Nova 2 Lite is a lightweight, high-speed reasoning model designed to handle everyday AI workloads across text, images, and video. It can generate clear, context-aware responses and lets users fine-tune how much internal reasoning the model performs before producing an answer. This adjustable “thinking depth” gives teams the flexibility to choose faster replies or more detailed problem-solving depending on the task. It stands out for customer service bots, automated document handling, and general business workflow support. Nova 2 Lite delivers strong performance across standard evaluation tests. It performs on par with or better than comparable compact models in most benchmark categories, demonstrating reliable comprehension and response quality. Its strengths include interpreting complex documents, pulling accurate insights from video content, generating usable code, and delivering grounded answers based on provided information. -
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GPT-5.2
OpenAI
GPT-5.2 is the newest evolution in the GPT-5 series, engineered to deliver even greater intelligence, adaptability, and conversational depth. This release introduces enhanced model variants that refine how ChatGPT reasons, communicates, and responds to complex user intent. GPT-5.2 Instant remains the primary, high-usage model—now faster, more context-aware, and more precise in following instructions. GPT-5.2 Thinking takes advanced reasoning further, offering clearer step-by-step logic, improved consistency on multi-stage problems, and more efficient handling of long or intricate tasks. The system automatically routes each query to the most suitable variant, ensuring optimal performance without requiring user selection. Beyond raw intelligence gains, GPT-5.2 emphasizes more natural dialogue flow, stronger intent alignment, and a smoother, more humanlike communication style. -
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Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS
Google
Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS is the latest text-to-speech (TTS) model variant in Google’s Gemini 2.5 lineup, designed for faster, low-latency speech synthesis with expressive, controllable audio output. It offers significant enhancements in tone versatility and expressivity so that developers can generate speech that better matches style prompts, from storytelling narrations to character voices, with more natural emotional range. It features precision pacing, which allows it to adjust speech tempo based on context, delivering faster sections or slowing for emphasis more accurately according to instructions. It also supports multi-speaker dialogues with consistent character voices for scenarios like podcasts, interviews, or conversational agents, and improved multilingual handling so each speaker’s unique tone and style persist across languages. Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS is optimized for lower latency, making it ideal for interactive applications and real-time voice interfaces. -
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Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS
Google
Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS is Google’s advanced text-to-speech model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for high-quality, expressive, controllable speech synthesis for structured and professional audio generation tasks. The model delivers natural-sounding voice output with enhanced expressivity, tone control, pacing, and pronunciation fidelity, enabling developers to dictate style, accent, rhythm, and emotional nuance through text-based prompts, making it suitable for applications like podcasts, audiobooks, customer assistance, tutorials, and multimedia narration that require premium audio output. It supports both single-speaker and multi-speaker audio, allowing distinct voices and conversational flows in the same output, and can synthesize speech across multiple languages with consistent style adherence. Compared with lower-latency variants like Flash TTS, the Pro TTS model prioritizes sound quality, depth of expression, and nuanced control. -
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Google has released updated Gemini audio models that significantly expand the platform’s capabilities for natural, expressive voice interactions and real-time conversational AI with the introduction of Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio and improved text-to-speech technology. The updated native audio model powers live voice agents that can handle complex workflows, follow detailed user instructions more reliably, and maintain smoother multi-turn conversations by better recalling context from previous turns. It is now available across Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, Gemini Live, and Search Live, enabling developers and products to build interactive voice experiences such as intelligent assistants and enterprise voice agents. In addition to the real-time voice improvements, Google enhanced the underlying Text-to-Speech (TTS) models in the Gemini 2.5 family to offer greater expressivity, tone control, pacing adjustments, and multilingual support, so synthesized speech feels more natural.
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Grok 4.1 Thinking is xAI’s advanced reasoning-focused AI model designed for deeper analysis, reflection, and structured problem-solving. It uses explicit thinking tokens to reason through complex prompts before delivering a response, resulting in more accurate and context-aware outputs. The model excels in tasks that require multi-step logic, nuanced understanding, and thoughtful explanations. Grok 4.1 Thinking demonstrates a strong, coherent personality while maintaining analytical rigor and reliability. It has achieved the top overall ranking on the LMArena Text Leaderboard, reflecting strong human preference in blind evaluations. The model also shows leading performance in emotional intelligence and creative reasoning benchmarks. Grok 4.1 Thinking is built for users who value clarity, depth, and defensible reasoning in AI interactions.
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Wan2.6
Alibaba
Wan 2.6 is Alibaba’s advanced multimodal video generation model designed to create high-quality, audio-synchronized videos from text or images. It supports video creation up to 15 seconds in length while maintaining strong narrative flow and visual consistency. The model delivers smooth, realistic motion with cinematic camera movement and pacing. Native audio-visual synchronization ensures dialogue, sound effects, and background music align perfectly with visuals. Wan 2.6 includes precise lip-sync technology for natural mouth movements. It supports multiple resolutions, including 480p, 720p, and 1080p. Wan 2.6 is well-suited for creating short-form video content across social media platforms.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5.2-Codex
OpenAI
GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, built for complex, real-world software engineering and defensive cybersecurity work. It is a specialized version of GPT-5.2 optimized for long-horizon coding tasks such as large refactors, migrations, and feature development. The model maintains full context over extended sessions through native context compaction. GPT-5.2-Codex delivers state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0. It operates reliably across large repositories and native Windows environments. Stronger vision capabilities allow it to interpret screenshots, diagrams, and UI designs during development. GPT-5.2-Codex is designed to be a dependable partner for professional engineering workflows. -
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GWM-1
Runway AI
GWM-1 is Runway’s state-of-the-art General World Model designed to simulate the real world in real time. It is an interactive, controllable, and general-purpose model built on top of Runway’s Gen-4.5 architecture. GWM-1 generates high-fidelity video frame by frame while maintaining long-term spatial and behavioral consistency. The model supports action-conditioning through inputs such as camera movement, robot actions, events, and speech. GWM-1 enables realistic visual simulation paired with synchronized video and audio outputs. It is designed to help AI systems experience environments rather than just describe them. GWM-1 represents a major step toward general-purpose simulation beyond language-only models. -
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Kling 2.6
Kuaishou Technology
Kling 2.6 is an advanced AI video generation model that produces fully immersive audio-visual content in a single pass. Unlike earlier AI video tools that generated silent visuals, Kling 2.6 creates synchronized visuals, natural voiceovers, sound effects, and ambient audio together. The model supports both text-to-audio-visual and image-to-audio-visual workflows for fast content creation. Kling 2.6 automatically aligns sound, rhythm, emotion, and camera movement to deliver a cohesive viewing experience. Native Audio allows creators to control voices, sound effects, and atmosphere without external editing. The platform is designed to be accessible for beginners while offering creative depth for advanced users. Kling 2.6 transforms AI video from basic visuals into fully realized, story-driven media. -
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PlayerZero
PlayerZero
PlayerZero is an AI-driven predictive quality platform designed to help engineering, QA, and support teams monitor, diagnose, and resolve software issues before they impact customers by deeply understanding complex codebases and simulating how code will behave in real-world conditions. It applies proprietary AI models and semantic graph analysis to integrate signals from source code, runtime telemetry, customer tickets, documentation, and historical data, giving users unified, context-rich insights into what their software does, why it’s broken, and how to fix or improve it. Its agentic debugging agents can autonomously triage, root cause analyze, and even suggest fixes for issues, reducing escalations and accelerating resolution times while preserving audit trails, governance, and approval workflows. PlayerZero also includes CodeSim, an agentic code simulation capability powered by the Sim-1 model that predicts the impact of changes. -
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BLOOM
BigScience
BLOOM is an autoregressive Large Language Model (LLM), trained to continue text from a prompt on vast amounts of text data using industrial-scale computational resources. As such, it is able to output coherent text in 46 languages and 13 programming languages that is hardly distinguishable from text written by humans. BLOOM can also be instructed to perform text tasks it hasn't been explicitly trained for, by casting them as text generation tasks. -
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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.
