Compare the Top AI Models in the USA as of February 2026 - Page 3

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    GPT-5.1 Pro
    GPT-5.1 Pro is the highest-performance version of the GPT-5.1 model family, designed for research-grade reasoning and advanced analytical workloads. It delivers deeper, more structured thinking, making it ideal for complex problem-solving across coding, science, finance, law, and technical research. Unlike the Instant and Thinking versions, GPT-5.1 Pro is built to maintain accuracy under heavy cognitive load, producing clearer logic and more reliable multi-step reasoning. Pro users also gain access to extended context windows, allowing significantly longer inputs and deeper information processing. While it supports the full range of ChatGPT features, GPT-5.1 Pro is optimized for precision, rigor, and high-stakes tasks. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Business customers.
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    Gemini Nano
    Gemini Nano from Google is a lightweight, energy-efficient AI model designed for high performance in compact, resource-constrained environments. Tailored for edge computing and mobile applications, Gemini Nano combines Google's advanced AI architecture with cutting-edge optimization techniques to deliver seamless performance without compromising speed or accuracy. Despite its compact size, it excels in tasks like voice recognition, natural language processing, real-time translation, and personalized recommendations. With a focus on privacy and efficiency, Gemini Nano processes data locally, minimizing reliance on cloud infrastructure while maintaining robust security. Its adaptability and low power consumption make it an ideal choice for smart devices, IoT ecosystems, and on-the-go AI solutions.
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    Gemini 1.5 Pro
    The Gemini 1.5 Pro AI model is a state-of-the-art language model designed to deliver highly accurate, context-aware, and human-like responses across a variety of applications. Built with cutting-edge neural architecture, it excels in natural language understanding, generation, and reasoning tasks. The model is fine-tuned for versatility, supporting tasks like content creation, code generation, data analysis, and complex problem-solving. Its advanced algorithms ensure nuanced comprehension, enabling it to adapt to different domains and conversational styles seamlessly. With a focus on scalability and efficiency, the Gemini 1.5 Pro is optimized for both small-scale implementations and enterprise-level integrations, making it a powerful tool for enhancing productivity and innovation.
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    Gemini 1.5 Flash
    The Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model is an advanced, high-speed language model engineered for lightning-fast processing and real-time responsiveness. Designed to excel in dynamic and time-sensitive applications, it combines streamlined neural architecture with cutting-edge optimization techniques to deliver exceptional performance without compromising on accuracy. Gemini 1.5 Flash is tailored for scenarios requiring rapid data processing, instant decision-making, and seamless multitasking, making it ideal for chatbots, customer support systems, and interactive applications. Its lightweight yet powerful design ensures it can be deployed efficiently across a range of platforms, from cloud-based environments to edge devices, enabling businesses to scale their operations with unmatched agility.
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    Qwen-7B

    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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    Mistral 7B

    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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    Codestral Mamba
    As a tribute to Cleopatra, whose glorious destiny ended in tragic snake circumstances, we are proud to release Codestral Mamba, a Mamba2 language model specialized in code generation, available under an Apache 2.0 license. Codestral Mamba is another step in our effort to study and provide new architectures. It is available for free use, modification, and distribution, and we hope it will open new perspectives in architecture research. Mamba models offer the advantage of linear time inference and the theoretical ability to model sequences of infinite length. It allows users to engage with the model extensively with quick responses, irrespective of the input length. This efficiency is especially relevant for code productivity use cases, this is why we trained this model with advanced code and reasoning capabilities, enabling it to perform on par with SOTA transformer-based models.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mistral NeMo

    Mistral NeMo

    Mistral AI

    Mistral NeMo, our new best small model. A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, and released under the Apache 2.0 license. Mistral NeMo is a 12B model built in collaboration with NVIDIA. Mistral NeMo offers a large context window of up to 128k tokens. Its reasoning, world knowledge, and coding accuracy are state-of-the-art in its size category. As it relies on standard architecture, Mistral NeMo is easy to use and a drop-in replacement in any system using Mistral 7B. We have released pre-trained base and instruction-tuned checkpoints under the Apache 2.0 license to promote adoption for researchers and enterprises. Mistral NeMo was trained with quantization awareness, enabling FP8 inference without any performance loss. The model is designed for global, multilingual applications. It is trained on function calling and has a large context window. Compared to Mistral 7B, it is much better at following precise instructions, reasoning, and handling multi-turn conversations.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mixtral 8x22B

    Mixtral 8x22B

    Mistral AI

    Mixtral 8x22B is our latest open model. It sets a new standard for performance and efficiency within the AI community. It is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) model that uses only 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. It is fluent in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. It has strong mathematics and coding capabilities. It is natively capable of function calling; along with the constrained output mode implemented on la Plateforme, this enables application development and tech stack modernization at scale. Its 64K tokens context window allows precise information recall from large documents. We build models that offer unmatched cost efficiency for their respective sizes, delivering the best performance-to-cost ratio within models provided by the community. Mixtral 8x22B is a natural continuation of our open model family. Its sparse activation patterns make it faster than any dense 70B model.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mathstral

    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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    Qwen2.5

    Qwen2.5

    Alibaba

    Qwen2.5 is an advanced multimodal AI model designed to provide highly accurate and context-aware responses across a wide range of applications. It builds on the capabilities of its predecessors, integrating cutting-edge natural language understanding with enhanced reasoning, creativity, and multimodal processing. Qwen2.5 can seamlessly analyze and generate text, interpret images, and interact with complex data to deliver precise solutions in real time. Optimized for adaptability, it excels in personalized assistance, data analysis, creative content generation, and academic research, making it a versatile tool for professionals and everyday users alike. Its user-centric design emphasizes transparency, efficiency, and alignment with ethical AI practices.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Ministral 3B

    Ministral 3B

    Mistral AI

    Mistral AI introduced two state-of-the-art models for on-device computing and edge use cases, named "les Ministraux": Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B. These models set a new frontier in knowledge, commonsense reasoning, function-calling, and efficiency in the sub-10B category. They can be used or tuned for various applications, from orchestrating agentic workflows to creating specialist task workers. Both models support up to 128k context length (currently 32k on vLLM), and Ministral 8B features a special interleaved sliding-window attention pattern for faster and memory-efficient inference. These models were built to provide a compute-efficient and low-latency solution for scenarios such as on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, local analytics, and autonomous robotics. Used in conjunction with larger language models like Mistral Large, les Ministraux also serve as efficient intermediaries for function-calling in multi-step agentic workflows.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Ministral 8B

    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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    Mistral Small

    Mistral Small

    Mistral AI

    On September 17, 2024, Mistral AI announced several key updates to enhance the accessibility and performance of their AI offerings. They introduced a free tier on "La Plateforme," their serverless platform for tuning and deploying Mistral models as API endpoints, enabling developers to experiment and prototype at no cost. Additionally, Mistral AI reduced prices across their entire model lineup, with significant cuts such as a 50% reduction for Mistral Nemo and an 80% decrease for Mistral Small and Codestral, making advanced AI more cost-effective for users. The company also unveiled Mistral Small v24.09, a 22-billion-parameter model offering a balance between performance and efficiency, suitable for tasks like translation, summarization, and sentiment analysis. Furthermore, they made Pixtral 12B, a vision-capable model with image understanding capabilities, freely available on "Le Chat," allowing users to analyze and caption images without compromising text-based performance.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Tülu 3
    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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    LTXV

    LTXV

    Lightricks

    LTXV offers a suite of AI-powered creative tools designed to empower content creators across various platforms. LTX provides AI-driven video generation capabilities, allowing users to craft detailed video sequences with full control over every stage of production. It leverages Lightricks' proprietary AI models to deliver high-quality, efficient, and user-friendly editing experiences. LTX Video uses a breakthrough called multiscale rendering, starting with fast, low-res passes to capture motion and lighting, then refining with high-res detail. Unlike traditional upscalers, LTXV-13B analyzes motion over time, front-loading the heavy computation to deliver up to 30× faster, high-quality renders.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Kimi K2

    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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    Grok Code Fast 1
    Grok Code Fast 1 is a high-speed, economical reasoning model designed specifically for agentic coding workflows. Unlike traditional models that can feel slow in tool-based loops, it delivers near-instant responses, excelling in everyday software development tasks. Built from scratch with a programming-rich corpus and refined on real-world pull requests, it supports languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go. Developers can use it for everything from zero-to-one project building to precise bug fixes and codebase Q&A. With optimized inference and caching techniques, it achieves impressive responsiveness and a 90%+ cache hit rate when integrated with partners like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Cline. Offered at just $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, Grok Code Fast 1 strikes a strong balance between speed, performance, and affordability.
    Starting Price: $0.20 per million input tokens
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    Kimi K2 Thinking

    Kimi K2 Thinking

    Moonshot AI

    Kimi K2 Thinking is an advanced open source reasoning model developed by Moonshot AI, designed specifically for long-horizon, multi-step workflows where the system interleaves chain-of-thought processes with tool invocation across hundreds of sequential tasks. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with a total of 1 trillion parameters, yet only about 32 billion parameters are activated per inference pass, optimizing efficiency while maintaining vast capacity. It supports a context window of up to 256,000 tokens, enabling the handling of extremely long inputs and reasoning chains without losing coherence. Native INT4 quantization is built in, which reduces inference latency and memory usage without performance degradation. Kimi K2 Thinking is explicitly built for agentic workflows; it can autonomously call external tools, manage sequential logic steps (up to and typically between 200-300 tool calls in a single chain), and maintain consistent reasoning.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mistral Large 3
    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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    GLM-4.7

    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
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    Kimi K2.5

    Kimi K2.5

    Moonshot AI

    Kimi K2.5 is a next-generation multimodal AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, and visual understanding tasks. It features a native multimodal architecture that supports both text and visual inputs, enabling image and video comprehension alongside natural language processing. Kimi K2.5 delivers open-source state-of-the-art performance in agent workflows, software development, and general intelligence tasks. The model offers ultra-long context support with a 256K token window, making it suitable for large documents and complex conversations. It includes long-thinking capabilities that allow multi-step reasoning and tool invocation for solving challenging problems. Kimi K2.5 is fully compatible with the OpenAI API format, allowing developers to switch seamlessly with minimal changes. With strong performance, flexibility, and developer-focused tooling, Kimi K2.5 is built for production-grade AI applications.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Alpa

    Alpa

    Alpa

    Alpa aims to automate large-scale distributed training and serving with just a few lines of code. Alpa was initially developed by folks in the Sky Lab, UC Berkeley. Some advanced techniques used in Alpa have been written in a paper published in OSDI'2022. Alpa community is growing with new contributors from Google. A language model is a probability distribution over sequences of words. It predicts the next word based on all the previous words. It is useful for a variety of AI applications, such the auto-completion in your email or chatbot service. For more information, check out the language model wikipedia page. GPT-3 is very large language model, with 175 billion parameters, that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. Many researchers and news articles described GPT-3 as "one of the most interesting and important AI systems ever produced". GPT-3 is gradually being used as a backbone in the latest NLP research and applications.
    Starting Price: Free
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    InstructGPT
    InstructGPT is an open-source framework for training language models to generate natural language instructions from visual input. It uses a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) model and the state-of-the-art object detector, Mask R-CNN, to detect objects in images and generate natural language sentences that describe the image. InstructGPT is designed to be effective across domains such as robotics, gaming and education; it can assist robots in navigating complex tasks with natural language instructions, or help students learn by providing descriptive explanations of processes or events.
    Starting Price: $0.0200 per 1000 tokens
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    Azure OpenAI Service
    Apply advanced coding and language models to a variety of use cases. Leverage large-scale, generative AI models with deep understandings of language and code to enable new reasoning and comprehension capabilities for building cutting-edge applications. Apply these coding and language models to a variety of use cases, such as writing assistance, code generation, and reasoning over data. Detect and mitigate harmful use with built-in responsible AI and access enterprise-grade Azure security. Gain access to generative models that have been pretrained with trillions of words. Apply them to new scenarios including language, code, reasoning, inferencing, and comprehension. Customize generative models with labeled data for your specific scenario using a simple REST API. Fine-tune your model's hyperparameters to increase accuracy of outputs. Use the few-shot learning capability to provide the API with examples and achieve more relevant results.
    Starting Price: $0.0004 per 1000 tokens
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    NLP Cloud

    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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    AI21 Studio

    AI21 Studio

    AI21 Studio

    AI21 Studio provides API access to Jurassic-1 large-language-models. Our models power text generation and comprehension features in thousands of live applications. Take on any language task. Our Jurassic-1 models are trained to follow natural language instructions and require just a few examples to adapt to new tasks. Use our specialized APIs for common tasks like summarization, paraphrasing and more. Access superior results at a lower cost without reinventing the wheel. Need to fine-tune your own custom model? You're just 3 clicks away. Training is fast, affordable and trained models are deployed immediately. Give your users superpowers by embedding an AI co-writer in your app. Drive user engagement and success with features like long-form draft generation, paraphrasing, repurposing and custom auto-complete.
    Starting Price: $29 per month
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    Gen-2

    Gen-2

    Runway

    Gen-2: The Next Step Forward for Generative AI. A multi-modal AI system that can generate novel videos with text, images, or video clips. Realistically and consistently synthesize new videos. Either by applying the composition and style of an image or text prompt to the structure of a source video (Video to Video). Or, using nothing but words (Text to Video). It's like filming something new, without filming anything at all. Based on user studies, results from Gen-2 are preferred over existing methods for image-to-image and video-to-video translation.
    Starting Price: $15 per month
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    Jurassic-2
    Announcing the launch of Jurassic-2, the latest generation of AI21 Studio’s foundation models, a game-changer in the field of AI, with top-tier quality and new capabilities. And that's not all, we're also releasing our task-specific APIs, with plug-and-play reading and writing capabilities that outperform competitors. Our focus at AI21 Studio is to help developers and businesses leverage reading and writing AI to build real-world products with tangible value. Today marks two important milestones with the release of Jurassic-2 and Task-Specific APIs, empowering you to bring generative AI to production. Jurassic-2 (or J2, as we like to call it) is the next generation of our foundation models with significant improvements in quality and new capabilities including zero-shot instruction-following, reduced latency, and multi-language support. Task-specific APIs provide developers with industry-leading APIs that perform specialized reading and writing tasks out-of-the-box.
    Starting Price: $29 per month
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    FLAN-T5

    FLAN-T5

    Google

    FLAN-T5 was released in the paper Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models - it is an enhanced version of T5 that has been finetuned in a mixture of tasks.
    Starting Price: Free