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    ERNIE X1 Turbo
    ERNIE X1 Turbo, developed by Baidu, is an advanced deep reasoning AI model introduced at the Baidu Create 2025 conference. Designed to handle complex multi-step tasks such as problem-solving, literary creation, and code generation, this model outperforms competitors like DeepSeek R1 in terms of reasoning abilities. With a focus on multimodal capabilities, ERNIE X1 Turbo supports text, audio, and image processing, making it an incredibly versatile AI solution. Despite its cutting-edge technology, it is priced at just a fraction of the cost of other top-tier models, offering a high-value solution for businesses and developers.
    Starting Price: $0.14 per 1M tokens
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    OpenAI o3-pro
    OpenAI’s o3-pro is a high-performance reasoning model designed for tasks that require deep analysis and precision. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, succeeding the earlier o1-pro model. The model excels in complex fields like mathematics, science, and coding by employing detailed step-by-step reasoning. It integrates advanced tools such as real-time web search, file analysis, Python execution, and visual input processing. While powerful, o3-pro has slower response times and lacks support for features like image generation and temporary chats. Despite these trade-offs, o3-pro demonstrates superior clarity, accuracy, and adherence to instructions compared to its predecessor.
    Starting Price: $20 per 1 million tokens
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    MiniMax M1

    MiniMax M1

    MiniMax

    MiniMax‑M1 is a large‑scale hybrid‑attention reasoning model released by MiniMax AI under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports an unprecedented 1 million‑token context window and up to 80,000-token outputs, enabling extended reasoning across long documents. Trained using large‑scale reinforcement learning with a novel CISPO algorithm, MiniMax‑M1 completed full training on 512 H800 GPUs in about three weeks. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on benchmarks in mathematics, coding, software engineering, tool usage, and long‑context understanding, matching or outperforming leading models. Two model variants are available (40K and 80K thinking budgets), with weights and deployment scripts provided via GitHub and Hugging Face.
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    GPT-5.1

    GPT-5.1

    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1 is the latest update in the GPT-5 series, designed to make ChatGPT dramatically smarter and more conversational. The release introduces two distinct model variants: GPT-5.1 Instant, which is described as the most-used model and is now warmer, better at following instructions, and more intelligent; and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is the advanced reasoning engine that’s been tuned to be easier to understand, faster on straightforward tasks, and more persistent on complex ones. Users' queries are now routed automatically to the variant best-suited to the task. The update emphasizes not just improved raw intelligence but also enhanced communication style; the models are tuned to be more natural, enjoyable to talk to, and better aligned with user intents. The system card addendum notes that GPT-5.1 Instant uses “adaptive reasoning” that lets it decide when to think more deeply before responding, while GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its thinking time accurately to the question at hand.
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    GPT-5.2 Thinking
    GPT-5.2 Thinking is the highest-capability configuration in OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model family, engineered for deep, expert-level reasoning, complex task execution, and advanced problem solving across long contexts and professional domains. Built on the foundational GPT-5.2 architecture with improvements in grounding, stability, and reasoning quality, this variant applies more compute and reasoning effort to generate responses that are more accurate, structured, and contextually rich when handling highly intricate workflows, multi-step analysis, and domain-specific challenges. GPT-5.2 Thinking excels at tasks that require sustained logical coherence, such as detailed research synthesis, advanced coding and debugging, complex data interpretation, strategic planning, and sophisticated technical writing, and it outperforms lighter variants on benchmarks that test professional skills and deep comprehension.
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    GPT-5.2 Instant
    GPT-5.2 Instant is the fast, capable variant of OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model family designed for everyday work and learning with clear improvements in information-seeking questions, how-tos and walkthroughs, technical writing, and translation compared to prior versions. It builds on the warmer conversational tone introduced in GPT-5.1 Instant and produces clearer explanations that surface key information upfront, making it easier for users to get concise, accurate answers quickly. GPT-5.2 Instant delivers speed and responsiveness for typical tasks like answering queries, generating summaries, assisting with research, and helping with writing and editing, while incorporating broader enhancements from the GPT-5.2 series in reasoning, long-context handling, and factual grounding. As part of the GPT-5.2 lineup, it shares the same foundational improvements that boost overall reliability and performance across a wide range of everyday activities.
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    GPT-5.2 Pro
    GPT-5.2 Pro is the highest-capability variant of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.2 model family, built to deliver professional-grade reasoning, complex task performance, and enhanced accuracy for demanding knowledge work, creative problem-solving, and enterprise-level applications. It builds on the foundational improvements of GPT-5.2, including stronger general intelligence, superior long-context understanding, better factual grounding, and improved tool use, while using more compute and deeper processing to produce more thoughtful, reliable, and context-rich responses for users with intricate, multi-step requirements. GPT-5.2 Pro is designed to handle challenging workflows such as advanced coding and debugging, deep data analysis, research synthesis, extensive document comprehension, and complex project planning with greater precision and fewer errors than lighter variants.
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    Gemini 3 Flash
    Gemini 3 Flash is Google’s latest AI model built to deliver frontier intelligence with exceptional speed and efficiency. It combines Pro-level reasoning with Flash-level latency, making advanced AI more accessible and affordable. The model excels in complex reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic workflows while using fewer tokens for everyday tasks. Gemini 3 Flash is designed to scale across consumer apps, developer tools, and enterprise platforms. It supports rapid coding, data analysis, video understanding, and interactive application development. By balancing performance, cost, and speed, Gemini 3 Flash redefines what fast AI can achieve.
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    Higgsfield Soul 2.0
    Higgsfield Soul 2.0 is a foundation AI image generation model built for creative, fashion-aware, culture-native visual production. It is designed specifically for aesthetics, producing realistic images with “taste built into every image” and outputs that feel photographed rather than artificially generated. It enables users to generate visuals from either text prompts or reference images, with the model interpreting composition, lighting, styling cues, and mood to deliver editorial-quality results. Soul 2.0 includes curated presets that act as visual anchors, allowing creators to establish mood and style instantly without complex prompt engineering. A key component is Soul ID, a personalization layer that lets users train a consistent digital character from their own photos and reuse that identity across different scenes, poses, and lighting setups.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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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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    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model and an early preview of the architecture planned for Qwen4. It systematically upgrades attention, residual connections, embeddings, and optimization to improve capability, computational efficiency, model capacity, and training stability. Its hybrid architecture combines Gated DeltaNet, which efficiently compresses historical information, with Qwen Sparse Attention, which selects important context at the micro-block level to reduce attention and indexing costs on long sequences. Gated Residual widens the residual stream into four branches and dynamically controls information flow across layers, while N-gram Embedding adds large-scale local-pattern memory with very little extra per-token computation and can be offloaded to host memory. The model uses a 125B-parameter main network plus 51B N-gram embedding parameters, while activating only 6B parameters per token.
    Starting Price: $2 per 1M (input)
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  • 12
    TabPFN-3.5

    TabPFN-3.5

    Prior Labs

    TabPFN-3.5 is a tabular foundation model built for state-of-the-art predictions on structured data. It supports a wide range of prediction tasks, including churn, fraud, pricing, demand forecasting, risk, and other real-world data science problems, allowing teams to serve multiple use cases with one model. The model works with data as it is, handling missing values, outliers, categorical features, multi-table datasets, free text as a feature, thousands of distinct IDs without encoding, and hundreds of measurements per row. Users can feed in raw data, skip feature engineering and preprocessing, and get production-grade predictions from the first predict call. TabPFN-3.5 performs predictions in a single forward pass and is designed for both accuracy and speed, with fast inference for latency-critical predictive workflows. It supports production-scale datasets of up to one million rows natively and delivers 20x faster inference than previous model versions.
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    Phi-2

    Phi-2

    Microsoft

    We are now releasing Phi-2, a 2.7 billion-parameter language model that demonstrates outstanding reasoning and language understanding capabilities, showcasing state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters. On complex benchmarks Phi-2 matches or outperforms models up to 25x larger, thanks to new innovations in model scaling and training data curation. With its compact size, Phi-2 is an ideal playground for researchers, including for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, or fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks. We have made Phi-2 available in the Azure AI Studio model catalog to foster research and development on language models.
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    Smaug-72B
    Smaug-72B is a powerful open-source large language model (LLM) known for several key features: High Performance: It currently holds the top spot on the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard, surpassing models like GPT-3.5 in various benchmarks. This means it excels at tasks like understanding, responding to, and generating human-like text. Open Source: Unlike many other advanced LLMs, Smaug-72B is freely available for anyone to use and modify, fostering collaboration and innovation in the AI community. Focus on Reasoning and Math: It specifically shines in handling reasoning and mathematical tasks, attributing this strength to unique fine-tuning techniques developed by Abacus AI, the creators of Smaug-72B. Based on Qwen-72B: It's technically a fine-tuned version of another powerful LLM called Qwen-72B, released by Alibaba, further improving upon its capabilities. Overall, Smaug-72B represents a significant step forward in open-source AI.
    Starting Price: Free
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    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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    DBRX

    DBRX

    Databricks

    Today, we are excited to introduce DBRX, an open, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks. Across a range of standard benchmarks, DBRX sets a new state-of-the-art for established open LLMs. Moreover, it provides the open community and enterprises building their own LLMs with capabilities that were previously limited to closed model APIs; according to our measurements, it surpasses GPT-3.5, and it is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. It is an especially capable code model, surpassing specialized models like CodeLLaMA-70B in programming, in addition to its strength as a general-purpose LLM. This state-of-the-art quality comes with marked improvements in training and inference performance. DBRX advances the state-of-the-art in efficiency among open models thanks to its fine-grained mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture. Inference is up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B, and DBRX is about 40% of the size of Grok-1 in terms of both total and active parameter counts.
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    Claude Haiku 3
    Claude Haiku 3 is the fastest and most affordable model in its intelligence class. With state-of-the-art vision capabilities and strong performance on industry benchmarks, Haiku is a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise applications. The model is now available alongside Sonnet and Opus in the Claude API and on claude.ai for our Claude Pro subscribers.
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    Phi-3

    Phi-3

    Microsoft

    A family of powerful, small language models (SLMs) with groundbreaking performance at low cost and low latency. Maximize AI capabilities, lower resource use, and ensure cost-effective generative AI deployments across your applications. Accelerate response times in real-time interactions, autonomous systems, apps requiring low latency, and other critical scenarios. Run Phi-3 in the cloud, at the edge, or on device, resulting in greater deployment and operation flexibility. Phi-3 models were developed in accordance with Microsoft AI principles: accountability, transparency, fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, and inclusiveness. Operate effectively in offline environments where data privacy is paramount or connectivity is limited. Generate more coherent, accurate, and contextually relevant outputs with an expanded context window. Deploy at the edge to deliver faster responses.
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    NVIDIA Nemotron
    NVIDIA Nemotron is a family of open-source models developed by NVIDIA, designed to generate synthetic data for training large language models (LLMs) for commercial applications. The Nemotron-4 340B model, in particular, is a significant release by NVIDIA, offering developers a powerful tool to generate high-quality data and filter it based on various attributes using a reward model.
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    LFM-40B

    LFM-40B

    Liquid AI

    LFM-40B offers a new balance between model size and output quality. It leverages 12B activated parameters at use. Its performance is comparable to models larger than itself, while its MoE architecture enables higher throughput and deployment on more cost-effective hardware.
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    LFM-3B

    LFM-3B

    Liquid AI

    LFM-3B delivers incredible performance for its size. It positions itself as first place among 3B parameter transformers, hybrids, and RNN models, but also outperforms the previous generation of 7B and 13B models. It is also on par with Phi-3.5-mini on multiple benchmarks, while being 18.4% smaller. LFM-3B is the ideal choice for mobile and other edge text-based applications.
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  • 22
    Amazon Nova
    Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, available exclusively on Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Lite, and Amazon Nova Pro are understanding models that accept text, image, or video inputs and generate text output. They provide a broad selection of capability, accuracy, speed, and cost operation points. Amazon Nova Micro is a text only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at very low cost. Amazon Nova Lite is a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs. Amazon Nova Pro is a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. Amazon Nova Pro’s capabilities, coupled with its industry-leading speed and cost efficiency, makes it a compelling model for almost any task, including video summarization, Q&A, math & more.
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    Amazon Nova Canvas
    Amazon Nova Canvas is a state-of-the-art image generation model that creates professional grade images from text or images provided in prompts. Amazon Nova Canvas also provides features that make it easy to edit images using text inputs, controls for adjusting color scheme and layout, and built-in controls to support safe and responsible use of AI.
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    Amazon Nova Reel
    Amazon Nova Reel is a state-of-the-art video generation model that allows customers to easily create high quality video from text and images. Amazon Nova Reel supports use of natural language prompts to control visual style and pacing, including camera motion control, and built-in controls to support safe and responsible use of AI.
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  • 25
    OpenEuroLLM

    OpenEuroLLM

    OpenEuroLLM

    OpenEuroLLM is a collaborative initiative among Europe's leading AI companies and research institutions to develop a series of open-source foundation models for transparent AI in Europe. The project emphasizes transparency by openly sharing data, documentation, training, testing code, and evaluation metrics, fostering community involvement. It ensures compliance with EU regulations, aiming to provide performant large language models that align with European standards. A key focus is on linguistic and cultural diversity, extending multilingual capabilities to encompass all EU official languages and beyond. The initiative seeks to enhance access to foundational models ready for fine-tuning across various applications, expand evaluation results in multiple languages, and increase the availability of training datasets and benchmarks. Transparency is maintained throughout the training processes by sharing tools, methodologies, and intermediate results.
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    Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
    Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is an advanced AI model developed by Google DeepMind, designed to enhance reasoning capabilities by explicitly displaying its thought processes. This transparency allows the model to tackle complex problems more effectively and provides users with clear explanations of its decision-making steps. By showcasing its internal reasoning, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking not only improves performance but also offers greater explainability, making it a valuable tool for applications requiring deep understanding and trust in AI-driven solutions.
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    Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
    Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is Google DeepMind's lighter AI model, designed to offer a cost-effective solution without compromising performance. As the most economical model in the Gemini 2.0 lineup, Flash-Lite is tailored for developers and businesses seeking efficient AI capabilities at a lower cost. It supports multimodal inputs and features a context window of one million tokens, making it suitable for a variety of applications. Flash-Lite is currently available in public preview, allowing users to explore its potential in enhancing their AI-driven projects.
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    Gemini 2.0 Pro
    Gemini 2.0 Pro is Google DeepMind's most advanced AI model, designed to excel in complex tasks such as coding and intricate problem-solving. Currently in its experimental phase, it features an extensive context window of two million tokens, enabling it to process and analyze vast amounts of information efficiently. A standout feature of Gemini 2.0 Pro is its seamless integration with external tools like Google Search and code execution environments, enhancing its ability to provide accurate and comprehensive responses. This model represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, offering developers and users a powerful resource for tackling sophisticated challenges.
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  • 29
    Evo 2

    Evo 2

    Arc Institute

    Evo 2 is a genomic foundation model capable of generalist prediction and design tasks across DNA, RNA, and proteins. It utilizes a frontier deep learning architecture to model biological sequences at single-nucleotide resolution, achieving near-linear scaling of compute and memory relative to context length. Trained with 40 billion parameters and a 1 megabase context length, Evo 2 processes over 9 trillion nucleotides from diverse eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. This extensive training enables Evo 2 to perform zero-shot function prediction across multiple biological modalities, including DNA, RNA, and proteins, and to generate novel sequences with plausible genomic architecture. The model's capabilities have been demonstrated in tasks such as designing functional CRISPR systems and predicting disease-causing mutations in human genes. Evo 2 is publicly accessible via Arc's GitHub repository and is integrated into the NVIDIA BioNeMo framework.
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    ERNIE X1
    ERNIE X1 is an advanced conversational AI model developed by Baidu as part of their ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration) series. Unlike previous versions, ERNIE X1 is designed to be more efficient in understanding and generating human-like responses. It incorporates cutting-edge machine learning techniques to handle complex queries, making it capable of not only processing text but also generating images and engaging in multimodal communication. ERNIE X1 is often used in natural language processing applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and enterprise automation, offering significant improvements in accuracy, contextual understanding, and response quality.
    Starting Price: $0.28 per 1M tokens
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