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MiMo-V2.5-Pro
Xiaomi Technology
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro is an advanced open-source AI model designed to handle complex, long-horizon tasks with strong agentic capabilities. It features a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with over one trillion parameters and a large context window of up to one million tokens. The model is built to perform sophisticated reasoning, coding, and problem-solving across extended workflows. It demonstrates high performance on benchmark tests related to software engineering, reasoning, and general intelligence. MiMo-V2.5-Pro can autonomously complete complex projects, such as building full software systems or optimizing engineering designs. It uses hybrid attention mechanisms to balance efficiency and performance across long contexts. The model is also optimized for token efficiency, reducing computational cost while maintaining strong results. By combining scalability, efficiency, and advanced reasoning, MiMo-V2.5-Pro represents a major step forward in open-source AI models. -
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MiMo-V2.5
Xiaomi Technology
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is an advanced open-source AI model designed to combine strong agentic capabilities with native multimodal understanding. It can process and reason across text, images, and audio within a single unified system. The model uses a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with hundreds of billions of parameters for efficient performance. It supports an extended context window of up to one million tokens, enabling long and complex workflows. MiMo-V2.5 is built to handle tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal analysis with high accuracy. It incorporates dedicated visual and audio encoders to enhance perception and cross-modal reasoning. The model demonstrates strong benchmark performance across coding, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. By combining multimodality, efficiency, and agentic intelligence, MiMo-V2.5 advances the capabilities of open-source AI systems. -
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ERNIE 5.1
Baidu
ERNIE 5.1 is Baidu’s latest large language model designed to deliver advanced reasoning, agentic AI capabilities, creative writing, and world knowledge performance while operating with significantly improved efficiency. The model builds on the foundation of ERNIE 5.0 while reducing total parameters and training costs, allowing it to achieve flagship-level intelligence at a fraction of the computational expense of comparable models. ERNIE 5.1 performs strongly across international benchmarks for reasoning, search, knowledge, and agentic tasks, ranking among the top global AI models and leading among Chinese-developed models on multiple leaderboards. The platform introduces a new fully asynchronous reinforcement learning infrastructure that improves training efficiency, scalability, and stability for complex long-horizon AI tasks. ERNIE 5.1 also features advanced creative writing capabilities. -
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Seed2.1 Turbo
ByteDance
Seed2.1 Turbo is a next-generation AI productivity model designed to execute complex real-world tasks with strong general-agent, coding, and multimodal capabilities. It goes beyond one-off answers by carrying multi-step workflows toward defined goals and producing practical, usable outcomes across tools, environments, and interaction modes. For professional work and everyday consultation, it can support project planning, document and file processing, information analysis, solution design, content planning, tool use, and results consolidation. It also handles teaching, office, and research scenarios such as generating lesson-plan slides, analyzing complex spreadsheets, and producing industry reports. In software engineering, Seed2.1 Turbo supports end-to-end delivery across requirement analysis, feature implementation, bug fixing, environment setup, terminal usage, and result validation, while understanding codebase architecture, dependencies, and business logic to coordinate changes. -
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Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
Alibaba
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is the largest open model in the Qwen3.8 family, bringing Qwen-Max-class capabilities to an open release. Built on the architectural foundation of Qwen3.5, it delivers substantial improvements across coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks, with a focus on carrying complex, multi-step work through to completion more reliably. The causal language model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion activated parameters, including 512 experts with 10 routed and one shared expert active at a time. It supports a native context length of 262,144 tokens that can be extended to approximately 1.01 million tokens. Agent execution is strengthened through better autonomous planning and improved handling of environment feedback, while broader compatibility with popular agent harnesses and development tools simplifies integration into existing stacks. -
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Hy4
Tencent
Hy4 preview is a new-generation open source Mixture-of-Experts flagship model built for real-world productivity tasks across software engineering, office work, game development, and scientific research. The model contains 770B total parameters with 49B activated per token and supports a 1M-token context window, giving it the capacity to work through large codebases, extensive document collections, and long multi-step tasks. Its 78-layer architecture combines Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention with IndexCache for cross-layer sparse index reuse and identity Hyper-Connections to expand information flow between layers. A native Multi-Token Prediction layer is included for speculative decoding. Hy4 preview is designed to understand, plan, debug, and verify long-horizon engineering tasks, with additional gains in front-end visual quality and interaction design. -
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TimesFM-3
Google
TimesFM-3 is a state-of-the-art time series foundation model designed for highly accurate multivariate forecasting in a single forward pass. The 330 million parameter model is pre-trained on a real-world and synthetic time-series corpus comprising more than 1 trillion time points, building on the efficiency and zero-shot generalization of earlier TimesFM models. It can jointly predict multiple coevolving time series and capture dependencies that improve accuracy without task-specific fine-tuning. The model supports multiple targets with point and quantile forecasts, past covariates that are known only historically, and past-future dynamic covariates such as planned promotions, holidays, or weather forecasts. TimesFM-3 uses a decoder-only transformer architecture, processes contiguous data in patches of 32 time steps, and applies alternating causal temporal attention and full variate attention to combine patterns across time and related series. -
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Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is Google’s most capable cybersecurity model, providing frontier-level performance in vulnerability detection and automated patching with the speed needed for quick iteration. It is designed specifically for trusted defenders and is available through the Fairwind Program. On CyberGym, a standard industry benchmark for finding vulnerabilities, the model demonstrates frontier-level autonomous vulnerability discovery and surpasses both Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber and significantly larger frontier models. Google also evaluated it on an internal benchmark covering complex codebases across 20 programming languages, where it achieved a success rate exceeding 70% in discovering a wide range of vulnerabilities. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber prioritizes vulnerability fixing over offensive capabilities such as exploitation, equipping defenders with expert capabilities that can help them maintain an advantage over attackers. -
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Grok 4.8
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.8 is an upcoming AI model from xAI expected to advance the Grok family in reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and professional knowledge work. Elon Musk has described the model as having approximately 2.5 trillion parameters and being trained using a new C++ software stack. The model is expected to complete its initial training before entering reinforcement learning, with final capabilities and performance still subject to change. Grok 4.8 is anticipated to build on Grok 4.7’s strengths in software development, tool calling, configurable reasoning, multimodal input, and long-running agentic tasks. xAI has not yet released official benchmarks, pricing, context-window specifications, API identifiers, or a public launch date for Grok 4.8. The model is expected to target developers, researchers, enterprises, and advanced AI users who need high-capability reasoning and autonomous task execution. -
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Command R
Cohere AI
Command’s model outputs come with clear citations that mitigate the risk of hallucinations and enable the surfacing of additional context from the source materials. Command can write product descriptions, help draft emails, suggest example press releases, and much more. Ask Command multiple questions about a document to assign a category to the document, extract a piece of information, or answer a general question about the document. Where answering a few questions about a document can save you a few minutes, doing it for thousands of documents can save a company years. This family of scalable models balances high efficiency with strong accuracy to enable enterprises to move from proof of concept into production-grade AI. -
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OpenAI o3-mini
OpenAI
OpenAI o3-mini is a lightweight version of the advanced o3 AI model, offering powerful reasoning capabilities in a more efficient and accessible package. Designed to break down complex instructions into smaller, manageable steps, o3-mini excels in coding tasks, competitive programming, and problem-solving in mathematics and science. This compact model provides the same high-level precision and logic as its larger counterpart but with reduced computational requirements, making it ideal for use in resource-constrained environments. With built-in deliberative alignment, o3-mini ensures safe, ethical, and context-aware decision-making, making it a versatile tool for developers, researchers, and businesses seeking a balance between performance and efficiency. -
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Amazon Titan
Amazon
Amazon Titan is a series of advanced foundation models (FMs) from AWS, designed to enhance generative AI applications with high performance and flexibility. Built on AWS's 25 years of AI and machine learning experience, Titan models support a range of use cases such as text generation, summarization, semantic search, and image generation. Titan models are optimized for responsible AI use, incorporating built-in safety features and fine-tuning capabilities. They can be customized with your own data through Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to improve accuracy and relevance, making them ideal for both general-purpose and specialized AI tasks. -
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OpenAI o4-mini
OpenAI
The o4-mini model is a compact and efficient version of the o3 model, released following the launch of GPT-4.1. It offers enhanced reasoning capabilities, with improved performance in tasks that require complex reasoning and problem-solving. The o4-mini is designed to meet the growing demand for advanced AI solutions, serving as a more efficient alternative while maintaining the capabilities of its predecessor. This model is part of OpenAI's strategy to refine and advance their AI technologies ahead of the anticipated GPT-5 launch. -
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Microsoft Foundry Models
Microsoft
Microsoft Foundry Models is a unified model catalog that gives enterprises access to more than 11,000 AI models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AI, Meta, Cohere, DeepSeek, xAI, and others. It allows teams to explore, test, and deploy models quickly using a task-centric discovery experience and integrated playground. Organizations can fine-tune models with ready-to-use pipelines and evaluate performance using their own datasets for more accurate benchmarking. Foundry Models provides secure, scalable deployment options with serverless and managed compute choices tailored to enterprise needs. With built-in governance, compliance, and Azure’s global security framework, businesses can safely operationalize AI across mission-critical workflows. The platform accelerates innovation by enabling developers to build, iterate, and scale AI solutions from one centralized environment. -
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Grok 4.1
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.1 is an advanced AI model developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, designed to push the limits of reasoning and natural language understanding. Built on the powerful Colossus supercomputer, it processes multimodal inputs including text and images, with upcoming support for video. The model delivers exceptional accuracy in scientific, technical, and linguistic tasks. Its architecture enables complex reasoning and nuanced response generation that rivals the best AI systems in the world. Enhanced moderation ensures more responsible and unbiased outputs than earlier versions. Grok 4.1 is a breakthrough in creating AI that can think, interpret, and respond more like a human. -
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Amazon Nova 2 Omni
Amazon
Nova 2 Omni is a fully unified multimodal reasoning and generation model capable of understanding and producing content across text, images, video, and speech. It can take in extremely large inputs, ranging from hundreds of thousands of words to hours of audio and lengthy videos, while maintaining coherent analysis across formats. This allows it to digest full product catalogs, long-form documents, customer testimonials, and complete video libraries all at the same time, giving teams a single system that replaces the need for multiple specialized models. With its ability to handle mixed media in one workflow, Nova 2 Omni opens new possibilities for creative and operational automation. A marketing team, for example, can feed in product specs, brand guidelines, reference images, and video content and instantly generate an entire campaign, including messaging, social content, and visuals, in one pass. -
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GPT-5.4
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 is an advanced artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI to support complex professional and technical work. The model combines improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows into a single system designed for real-world productivity tasks. GPT-5.4 can generate, analyze, and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other work outputs with greater accuracy and efficiency. It also features improved tool integration, enabling the model to interact with software environments and external tools to complete multi-step workflows. With enhanced context capabilities supporting up to one million tokens, GPT-5.4 can process and reason over very large amounts of information. The model also improves factual accuracy and reduces errors compared to earlier versions. By combining strong reasoning, coding ability, and tool use, GPT-5.4 helps users complete complex tasks faster and with fewer iterations. -
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MiMo-V2-Omni
Xiaomi Technology
MiMo-V2-Omni is an advanced multimodal AI model designed to handle a wide range of real-world tasks across text, code, and other data formats. It is built to support agentic workflows, enabling seamless execution of complex, multi-step processes. The model integrates strong reasoning, tool usage, and contextual understanding to deliver reliable outputs. With its ability to process diverse inputs, it enhances productivity across development, automation, and enterprise use cases. MiMo-V2-Omni focuses on delivering consistent performance in both general and specialized tasks. -
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Claude Mythos
Anthropic
Claude Mythos Preview is a highly advanced AI model developed with strong capabilities in cybersecurity, particularly in identifying and exploiting software vulnerabilities. It demonstrates the ability to autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems, browsers, and critical software systems. The model can also generate complex exploit chains, including privilege escalation and remote code execution attacks. Its capabilities extend beyond vulnerability detection to reverse engineering and exploit development in both open-source and closed-source environments. Mythos Preview operates through agentic workflows, enabling it to analyze codebases, test hypotheses, and validate exploits independently. These abilities represent a significant leap compared to previous models, which struggled with exploit generation. Overall, Claude Mythos Preview highlights a new era where AI can both strengthen and challenge global cybersecurity practices. -
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Qwen 4
Alibaba
Qwen 4 is Alibaba’s next-generation Qwen foundation model, announced on September 22, 2026, and currently in training. It will follow the Qwen3.8 generation as part of Alibaba’s broader roadmap for increasingly capable foundation and agentic AI models. Alibaba has not yet published Qwen 4’s parameter count, architecture, benchmark results, context window, pricing, release date, or availability details. The announcement places Qwen 4 within a research strategy focused on large-scale model training, agentic reinforcement learning, multimodal intelligence, and recursive self-improvement. Alibaba separately said that later Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 models are expected to scale into the 5-to-10-trillion-parameter range, but that figure was not attributed specifically to Qwen 4. Because Qwen 4 has not yet been released, detailed performance comparisons and production capabilities remain unconfirmed. -
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Claude Fable 5.5
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5.5 is not currently an announced or released Anthropic model as of September 30, 2026. Anthropic's current model documentation lists Claude Fable 5.1 as the latest Fable model alongside Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5. Fable 5.1 remains Anthropic's premium model for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic workloads, with a 1-million-token context window and maximum output of 128,000 tokens. It uses adaptive thinking that is always enabled and defaults to a high reasoning effort level. Fable 5.1 is priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with cache reads priced at $0.25 per million tokens. Anthropic has released Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, but there is currently no official model documentation, pricing, release date, benchmark data, or API identifier for Claude Fable 5.5. -
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Llama
Meta
Llama (Large Language Model Meta AI) is a state-of-the-art foundational large language model designed to help researchers advance their work in this subfield of AI. Smaller, more performant models such as Llama enable others in the research community who don’t have access to large amounts of infrastructure to study these models, further democratizing access in this important, fast-changing field. Training smaller foundation models like Llama is desirable in the large language model space because it requires far less computing power and resources to test new approaches, validate others’ work, and explore new use cases. Foundation models train on a large set of unlabeled data, which makes them ideal for fine-tuning for a variety of tasks. We are making Llama available at several sizes (7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B parameters) and also sharing a Llama model card that details how we built the model in keeping with our approach to Responsible AI practices. -
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OpenAI o3-mini-high
OpenAI
The o3-mini-high model from OpenAI advances AI reasoning by refining deep problem-solving in coding, mathematics, and complex tasks. It features adaptive thinking time with adjustable reasoning modes (low, medium, high) to optimize performance based on task complexity. Outperforming the o1 series by 200 Elo points on Codeforces, it delivers high efficiency at a lower cost while maintaining speed and accuracy. As part of the o3 family, it pushes AI problem-solving boundaries while remaining accessible, offering a free tier and expanded limits for Plus subscribers. -
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ERNIE 4.5 Turbo
Baidu
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo, unveiled by Baidu at the 2025 Baidu Create conference, is a cutting-edge AI model designed to handle a variety of data inputs, including text, images, audio, and video. It offers powerful multimodal processing capabilities that enable it to perform complex tasks across industries such as customer support automation, content creation, and data analysis. With enhanced reasoning abilities and reduced hallucinations, ERNIE 4.5 Turbo ensures that businesses can achieve higher accuracy and reliability in AI-driven processes. Additionally, this model is priced at just 1% of GPT-4.5’s cost, making it a highly cost-effective alternative for enterprises looking for top-tier AI performance. -
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ERNIE X1.1
Baidu
ERNIE X1.1 is Baidu’s upgraded reasoning model that delivers major improvements over its predecessor. It achieves 34.8% higher factual accuracy, 12.5% better instruction following, and 9.6% stronger agentic capabilities compared to ERNIE X1. In benchmark testing, it surpasses DeepSeek R1-0528 and performs on par with GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Built on the foundation of ERNIE 4.5, it has been enhanced with extensive mid-training and post-training, including reinforcement learning. The model is available through ERNIE Bot, the Wenxiaoyan app, and Baidu’s Qianfan MaaS platform via API. These upgrades are designed to reduce hallucinations, improve reliability, and strengthen real-world AI task performance. -
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ERNIE 5.0
Baidu
ERNIE 5.0 is a next-generation conversational AI platform developed by Baidu, designed to deliver natural, human-like interactions across multiple domains. Built on Baidu’s Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration (ERNIE) framework, it fuses advanced natural language processing (NLP) with deep contextual understanding. The model supports multimodal capabilities, allowing it to process and generate text, images, and voice seamlessly. ERNIE 5.0’s refined contextual awareness enables it to handle complex conversations with greater precision and nuance. Its applications span customer service, content generation, and enterprise automation, enhancing both user engagement and productivity. With its robust architecture, ERNIE 5.0 represents a major step forward in Baidu’s pursuit of intelligent, knowledge-driven AI systems. -
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Grok 4.20
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.20 is an advanced artificial intelligence model developed by xAI to elevate reasoning and natural language understanding. Built on the high-performance Colossus supercomputer, it is engineered for speed, scale, and accuracy. Grok 4.20 processes multimodal inputs such as text and images, with video support planned for future releases. The model excels in scientific, technical, and linguistic tasks, delivering highly precise and context-aware responses. Its architecture supports deep reasoning and sophisticated problem-solving capabilities. Enhanced moderation improves output reliability and reduces bias compared to earlier versions. Overall, Grok 4.20 represents a significant step toward more human-like AI reasoning and interpretation.
