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Llama 3.1
Meta
The open source AI model you can fine-tune, distill and deploy anywhere. Our latest instruction-tuned model is available in 8B, 70B and 405B versions. Using our open ecosystem, build faster with a selection of differentiated product offerings to support your use cases. Choose from real-time inference or batch inference services. Download model weights to further optimize cost per token. Adapt for your application, improve with synthetic data and deploy on-prem or in the cloud. Use Llama system components and extend the model using zero shot tool use and RAG to build agentic behaviors. Leverage 405B high quality data to improve specialized models for specific use cases.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Large
Mistral AI
Mistral Large is Mistral AI's flagship language model, designed for advanced text generation and complex multilingual reasoning tasks, including text comprehension, transformation, and code generation. It supports English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, offering a nuanced understanding of grammar and cultural contexts. With a 32,000-token context window, it can accurately recall information from extensive documents. The model's precise instruction-following and native function-calling capabilities facilitate application development and tech stack modernization. Mistral Large is accessible through Mistral's platform, Azure AI Studio, and Azure Machine Learning, and can be self-deployed for sensitive use cases. Benchmark evaluations indicate that Mistral Large achieves strong results, making it the world's second-ranked model generally available through an API, next to GPT-4.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 3.2
Meta
The open-source AI model you can fine-tune, distill and deploy anywhere is now available in more versions. Choose from 1B, 3B, 11B or 90B, or continue building with Llama 3.1. Llama 3.2 is a collection of large language models (LLMs) pretrained and fine-tuned in 1B and 3B sizes that are multilingual text only, and 11B and 90B sizes that take both text and image inputs and output text. Develop highly performative and efficient applications from our latest release. Use our 1B or 3B models for on device applications such as summarizing a discussion from your phone or calling on-device tools like calendar. Use our 11B or 90B models for image use cases such as transforming an existing image into something new or getting more information from an image of your surroundings.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 3.3
Meta
Llama 3.3 is the latest iteration in the Llama series of language models, developed to push the boundaries of AI-powered understanding and communication. With enhanced contextual reasoning, improved language generation, and advanced fine-tuning capabilities, Llama 3.3 is designed to deliver highly accurate, human-like responses across diverse applications. This version features a larger training dataset, refined algorithms for nuanced comprehension, and reduced biases compared to its predecessors. Llama 3.3 excels in tasks such as natural language understanding, creative writing, technical explanation, and multilingual communication, making it an indispensable tool for businesses, developers, and researchers. Its modular architecture allows for customizable deployment in specialized domains, ensuring versatility and performance at scale.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen2.5-Max
Alibaba
Qwen2.5-Max is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by the Qwen team, pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further refined through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). In evaluations, it outperforms models like DeepSeek V3 in benchmarks such as Arena-Hard, LiveBench, LiveCodeBench, and GPQA-Diamond, while also demonstrating competitive results in other assessments, including MMLU-Pro. Qwen2.5-Max is accessible via API through Alibaba Cloud and can be explored interactively on Qwen Chat.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen2.5-VL
Alibaba
Qwen2.5-VL is the latest vision-language model from the Qwen series, representing a significant advancement over its predecessor, Qwen2-VL. This model excels in visual understanding, capable of recognizing a wide array of objects, including text, charts, icons, graphics, and layouts within images. It functions as a visual agent, capable of reasoning and dynamically directing tools, enabling applications such as computer and phone usage. Qwen2.5-VL can comprehend videos exceeding one hour in length and can pinpoint relevant segments within them. Additionally, it accurately localizes objects in images by generating bounding boxes or points and provides stable JSON outputs for coordinates and attributes. The model also supports structured outputs for data like scanned invoices, forms, and tables, benefiting sectors such as finance and commerce. Available in base and instruct versions across 3B, 7B, and 72B sizes, Qwen2.5-VL is accessible through platforms like Hugging Face and ModelScope.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Large 2
Mistral AI
Mistral AI has launched the Mistral Large 2, an advanced AI model designed to excel in code generation, multilingual capabilities, and complex reasoning tasks. The model features a 128k context window, supporting dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, as well as over 80 programming languages. Mistral Large 2 is tailored for high-throughput single-node inference, making it ideal for large-context applications. Its improved performance on benchmarks like MMLU and its enhanced code generation and reasoning abilities ensure accuracy and efficiency. The model also incorporates better function calling and retrieval, supporting complex business applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 4 Behemoth
Meta
Llama 4 Behemoth is Meta's most powerful AI model to date, featuring a massive 288 billion active parameters. It excels in multimodal tasks, outperforming previous models like GPT-4.5 and Gemini 2.0 Pro across multiple STEM-focused benchmarks such as MATH-500 and GPQA Diamond. As the teacher model for the Llama 4 series, Behemoth sets the foundation for models like Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout. While still in training, Llama 4 Behemoth demonstrates unmatched intelligence, pushing the boundaries of AI in fields like math, multilinguality, and image understanding.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
Llama 4 Maverick is one of the most advanced multimodal AI models from Meta, featuring 17 billion active parameters and 128 experts. It surpasses its competitors like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash in a broad range of benchmarks, especially in tasks related to coding, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities. Llama 4 Maverick combines image and text understanding, enabling it to deliver industry-leading results in image-grounding tasks and precise, high-quality output. With its efficient performance at a reduced parameter size, Maverick offers exceptional value, especially in general assistant and chat applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 4 Scout
Meta
Llama 4 Scout is a powerful 17 billion active parameter multimodal AI model that excels in both text and image processing. With an industry-leading context length of 10 million tokens, it outperforms its predecessors, including Llama 3, in tasks such as multi-document summarization and parsing large codebases. Llama 4 Scout is designed to handle complex reasoning tasks while maintaining high efficiency, making it perfect for use cases requiring long-context comprehension and image grounding. It offers cutting-edge performance in image-related tasks and is particularly well-suited for applications requiring both text and visual understanding.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5 mini
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini is a streamlined, faster, and more affordable variant of OpenAI’s GPT-5, optimized for well-defined tasks and precise prompts. It supports text and image inputs and delivers high-quality text outputs with a 400,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. This model excels at rapid response times, making it suitable for applications requiring fast, accurate language understanding without the full overhead of GPT-5. Pricing is cost-effective, with input tokens at $0.25 per million and output tokens at $2 per million, providing savings over the flagship model. GPT-5 mini supports advanced features like streaming, function calling, structured outputs, and fine-tuning, but does not support audio input or image generation. It integrates well with various API endpoints including chat completions, responses, and embeddings, making it versatile for many AI-powered tasks.Starting Price: $0.25 per 1M tokens -
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GPT-5 nano
OpenAI
GPT-5 nano is OpenAI’s fastest and most affordable version of the GPT-5 family, designed for high-speed text processing tasks like summarization and classification. It supports text and image inputs, generating high-quality text outputs with a large 400,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. GPT-5 nano offers very fast response times, making it ideal for applications requiring quick turnaround without sacrificing quality. Pricing is extremely competitive, with input tokens costing $0.05 per million and output tokens $0.40 per million, making it accessible for budget-conscious projects. The model supports advanced API features such as streaming, function calling, structured outputs, and fine-tuning. While it supports image input, it does not handle audio input or web search, focusing on core text tasks efficiently.Starting Price: $0.05 per 1M tokens -
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NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Cosmos is a developer-first platform of state-of-the-art generative World Foundation Models (WFMs), advanced video tokenizers, guardrails, and an accelerated data processing and curation pipeline designed to supercharge physical AI development. It enables developers working on autonomous vehicles, robotics, and video analytics AI agents to generate photorealistic, physics-aware synthetic video data, trained on an immense dataset including 20 million hours of real-world and simulated video, to rapidly simulate future scenarios, train world models, and fine‑tune custom behaviors. It includes three core WFM types; Cosmos Predict, capable of generating up to 30 seconds of continuous video from multimodal inputs; Cosmos Transfer, which adapts simulations across environments and lighting for versatile domain augmentation; and Cosmos Reason, a vision-language model that applies structured reasoning to interpret spatial-temporal data for planning and decision-making.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6 advances upon its predecessor with stronger reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities: it demonstrates clear improvements in inferential performance, supports tool use during inference, and more effectively integrates into agent frameworks. In benchmark tests spanning reasoning, coding, and agents, GLM-4.6 outperforms GLM-4.5 and shows competitive strength against models such as DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and Claude Sonnet 4, though it still trails Claude Sonnet 4.5 in pure coding performance. In real-world tests using an extended “CC-Bench” suite across front-end development, tool building, data analysis, and algorithmic tasks, GLM-4.6 beats GLM-4.5 and approaches parity with Claude Sonnet 4, winning ~48.6% of head-to-head comparisons, while also achieving ~15% better token efficiency. GLM-4.6 is available via the Z.ai API, and developers can integrate it as an LLM backend or agent core using the platform’s API.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
DeepSeek
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, our latest experimental model built on V3.1-Terminus, debuting DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) for faster and more efficient inference and training on long contexts. DSA enables fine-grained sparse attention with minimal loss in output quality, boosting performance for long-context tasks while reducing compute costs. Benchmarks indicate that V3.2-Exp performs on par with V3.1-Terminus despite these efficiency gains. The model is now live across app, web, and API. Alongside this, the DeepSeek API prices have been cut by over 50% immediately to make access more affordable. For a transitional period, users can still access V3.1-Terminus via a temporary API endpoint until October 15, 2025. DeepSeek welcomes feedback on DSA via its feedback portal. In conjunction with the release, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp has been open-sourced: the model weights and supporting technology (including key GPU kernels in TileLang and CUDA) are available on Hugging Face.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2 is a next-generation open large language model designed for efficient reasoning, complex problem solving, and advanced agentic behavior. It introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a long-context attention mechanism that dramatically reduces computation while preserving performance. The model is trained with a scalable reinforcement learning framework, allowing it to achieve results competitive with GPT-5 and even surpass it in its Speciale variant. DeepSeek-V3.2 also includes a large-scale agent task synthesis pipeline that generates structured reasoning and tool-use demonstrations for post-training. The model features an updated chat template with new tool-calling logic and the optional developer role for agent workflows. With gold-medal performance in the IMO and IOI 2025 competitions, DeepSeek-V3.2 demonstrates elite reasoning capabilities for both research and applied AI scenarios.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of the DeepSeek-V3.2 model, created specifically for deep reasoning and advanced problem-solving tasks. It builds on DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a custom long-context attention mechanism that reduces computational overhead while preserving high performance. Through a large-scale reinforcement learning framework and extensive post-training compute, the Speciale variant surpasses GPT-5 on reasoning benchmarks and matches the capabilities of Gemini-3.0-Pro. The model achieved gold-medal performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2025 and International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2025. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale does not support tool-calling, making it purely optimized for uninterrupted reasoning and analytical accuracy. Released under the MIT license, it provides researchers and developers an open, state-of-the-art model focused entirely on high-precision reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.6V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6V is a state-of-the-art open source multimodal vision-language model from the Z.ai (GLM-V) family designed for reasoning, perception, and action. It ships in two variants: a full-scale version (106B parameters) for cloud or high-performance clusters, and a lightweight “Flash” variant (9B) optimized for local deployment or low-latency use. GLM-4.6V supports a native context window of up to 128K tokens during training, enabling it to process very long documents or multimodal inputs. Crucially, it integrates native Function Calling, meaning the model can take images, screenshots, documents, or other visual media as input directly (without manual text conversion), reason about them, and trigger tool calls, bridging “visual perception” with “executable action.” This enables a wide spectrum of capabilities; interleaved image-and-text content generation (for example, combining document understanding with text summarization or generation of image-annotated responses).Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.1V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.1V is a vision-language model, providing a powerful, compact multimodal model designed for reasoning and perception across images, text, and documents. The 9-billion-parameter variant (GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking) is built on the GLM-4-9B foundation and enhanced through a specialized training paradigm using Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum Sampling (RLCS). It supports a 64k-token context window and accepts high-resolution inputs (up to 4K images, any aspect ratio), enabling it to handle complex tasks such as optical character recognition, image captioning, chart and document parsing, video and scene understanding, GUI-agent workflows (e.g., interpreting screenshots, recognizing UI elements), and general vision-language reasoning. In benchmark evaluations at the 10 B-parameter scale, GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking achieved top performance on 23 of 28 tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.5V-Flash
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5V-Flash is an open source vision-language model, designed to bring strong multimodal capabilities into a lightweight, deployable package. It supports image, video, document, and GUI inputs, enabling tasks such as scene understanding, chart and document parsing, screen reading, and multi-image analysis. Compared to larger models in the series, GLM-4.5V-Flash offers a compact footprint while retaining core VLM capabilities like visual reasoning, video understanding, GUI task handling, and complex document parsing. It can serve in “GUI agent” workflows, meaning it can interpret screenshots or desktop captures, recognize icons or UI elements, and assist with automated desktop or web-based tasks. Although it forgoes some of the largest-model performance gains, GLM-4.5V-Flash remains versatile for real-world multimodal tasks where efficiency, lower resource usage, and broad modality support are prioritized.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.5V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5V builds on the GLM-4.5-Air foundation, using a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 106 billion total parameters and 12 billion activation parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source VLMs of similar scale across 42 public benchmarks, excelling in image, video, document, and GUI-based tasks. It supports a broad range of multimodal capabilities, including image reasoning (scene understanding, spatial recognition, multi-image analysis), video understanding (segmentation, event recognition), complex chart and long-document parsing, GUI-agent workflows (screen reading, icon recognition, desktop automation), and precise visual grounding (e.g., locating objects and returning bounding boxes). GLM-4.5V also introduces a “Thinking Mode” switch, allowing users to choose between fast responses or deeper reasoning when needed.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3.5
Alibaba
Qwen3.5 is a next-generation open-weight multimodal large language model designed to power native vision-language agents. The flagship release, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, combines a hybrid linear attention architecture with sparse mixture-of-experts, activating only 17 billion parameters per forward pass out of 397 billion total to maximize efficiency. It delivers strong benchmark performance across reasoning, coding, multilingual understanding, visual reasoning, and agent-based tasks. The model expands language support from 119 to 201 languages and dialects while introducing a 1M-token context window in its hosted version, Qwen3.5-Plus. Built for multimodal tasks, it processes text, images, and video with advanced spatial reasoning and tool integration. Qwen3.5 also incorporates scalable reinforcement learning environments to improve general agent capabilities. Designed for developers and enterprises, it enables efficient, tool-augmented, multimodal AI workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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MiMo-V2-Pro
Xiaomi Technology
Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro is a flagship AI foundation model designed to power real-world agentic workflows and complex task execution. It is built to function as the core intelligence behind agent systems, enabling orchestration of multi-step processes and production-level tasks. The model demonstrates strong capabilities in coding, tool usage, and search-based tasks, performing competitively on global benchmarks. With its large-scale architecture and extended context window, it can handle long and complex interactions efficiently. MiMo-V2-Pro is optimized for practical applications, delivering reliable performance across development, automation, and enterprise workflows.Starting Price: $1/million tokens -
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Alibaba
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is part of the Qwen3.5 “Medium” model series, designed as a highly efficient, multimodal foundation model that balances strong reasoning ability with practical deployment requirements. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 35 billion total parameters but activates only about 3 billion per token, allowing it to deliver performance comparable to much larger models while significantly reducing computational cost. The model integrates a hybrid attention mechanism that combines linear attention with standard attention layers, enabling efficient long-context processing and improved scalability for complex tasks. As a native vision-language model, it can process both text and visual inputs, supporting use cases such as multimodal reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows. It is designed to function as a general-purpose “AI agent,” capable of planning, tool use, and structured problem solving rather than just conversational responses.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5
OpenAI
GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced AI model, delivering smarter, faster, and more useful responses across a wide range of topics including math, science, finance, and law. It features built-in thinking capabilities that allow it to provide expert-level answers and perform complex reasoning. GPT-5 can handle long context lengths and generate detailed outputs, making it ideal for coding, research, and creative writing. The model includes a ‘verbosity’ parameter for customizable response length and improved personality control. It integrates with business tools like Google Drive and SharePoint to provide context-aware answers while respecting security permissions. Available to everyone, GPT-5 empowers users to collaborate with an AI assistant that feels like a knowledgeable colleague.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens -
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OpenAI o3
OpenAI
OpenAI o3 is an advanced AI model designed to enhance reasoning capabilities by breaking down complex instructions into smaller, more manageable steps. It offers significant improvements over previous AI iterations, excelling in coding tasks, competitive programming, and achieving high scores in mathematics and science benchmarks. Available for widespread use, OpenAI o3 supports advanced AI-driven problem-solving and decision-making processes. The model incorporates deliberative alignment techniques to ensure its responses align with established safety and ethical guidelines, making it a powerful tool for developers, researchers, and enterprises seeking sophisticated AI solutions.Starting Price: $2 per 1 million tokens -
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DeepSeek R2
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R2 is the anticipated successor to DeepSeek R1, a groundbreaking AI reasoning model launched in January 2025 by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. Building on R1’s success, which disrupted the AI industry with its cost-effective performance rivaling top-tier models like OpenAI’s o1, R2 promises a quantum leap in capabilities. It is expected to deliver exceptional speed and human-like reasoning, excelling in complex tasks such as advanced coding and high-level mathematical problem-solving. Leveraging DeepSeek’s innovative Mixture-of-Experts architecture and efficient training methods, R2 aims to outperform its predecessor while maintaining a low computational footprint, potentially expanding its reasoning abilities to languages beyond English.Starting Price: Free -
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OpenAI o3-pro
OpenAI
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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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
OpenAI
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.