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GPT-5.1 Instant
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Instant is a high-performance AI model designed for everyday users that combines speed, responsiveness, and improved conversational warmth. The model uses adaptive reasoning to instantly select how much computation is required for a task, allowing it to deliver fast answers without sacrificing understanding. It emphasizes stronger instruction-following, enabling users to give precise directions and expect consistent compliance. The model also introduces richer personality controls so chat tone can be set to Default, Friendly, Professional, Candid, Quirky, or Efficient, with experiments in deeper voice modulation. Its core value is to make interactions feel more natural and less robotic while preserving high intelligence across writing, coding, analysis, and reasoning. GPT-5.1 Instant routes user requests automatically from the base interface, with the system choosing whether this variant or the deeper “Thinking” model is applied. -
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GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking is the advanced reasoning model variant in the GPT-5.1 series, designed to more precisely allocate “thinking time” based on prompt complexity, responding faster to simpler requests and spending more effort on difficult problems. On a representative task distribution, it is roughly twice as fast on the fastest tasks and twice as slow on the slowest compared with its predecessor. Its responses are crafted to be clearer, with less jargon and fewer undefined terms, making deep analytical work more accessible and understandable. The model dynamically adjusts its reasoning depth, achieving a better balance between speed and thoroughness, particularly when dealing with technical concepts or multi-step questions. By combining high reasoning capacity with improved clarity, GPT-5.1 Thinking offers a powerful tool for tackling complex tasks, such as detailed analysis, coding, research, or technical explanations, while reducing unnecessary latency for routine queries. -
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Gemini 3 Deep Think
Google
The most advanced model from Google DeepMind, Gemini 3, sets a new bar for model intelligence by delivering state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal understanding across text, image, and video. It surpasses its predecessor on key AI benchmarks and excels at deeper problems such as scientific reasoning, complex coding, spatial logic, and visual-/video-based understanding. The new “Deep Think” mode pushes the boundaries even further, offering enhanced reasoning for very challenging tasks, outperforming Gemini 3 Pro on benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam and ARC-AGI. Gemini 3 is now available across Google’s ecosystem, enabling users to learn, build, and plan at new levels of sophistication. With context windows up to one million tokens, more granular media-processing options, and specialized configurations for tool use, the model brings better precision, depth, and flexibility for real-world workflows. -
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Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest flagship model, delivering major improvements in reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and real-world problem solving. It outperforms previous models and leading competitors on benchmarks such as SWE-bench, multilingual coding tests, and advanced agent evaluations. Opus 4.5 also introduces stronger safety features, including significantly higher resistance to prompt injection and improved alignment across sensitive tasks. Developers gain new controls through the Claude API—like effort parameters, context compaction, and advanced tool use—allowing for more efficient, longer-running agentic workflows. Product updates across Claude, Claude Code, the Chrome extension, and Excel integrations expand how users interact with the model for software engineering, research, and everyday productivity. Overall, Claude Opus 4.5 marks a substantial step forward in capability, reliability, and usability for developers, enterprises, and end users. -
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Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
Nova 2 Lite is a lightweight, high-speed reasoning model designed to handle everyday AI workloads across text, images, and video. It can generate clear, context-aware responses and lets users fine-tune how much internal reasoning the model performs before producing an answer. This adjustable “thinking depth” gives teams the flexibility to choose faster replies or more detailed problem-solving depending on the task. It stands out for customer service bots, automated document handling, and general business workflow support. Nova 2 Lite delivers strong performance across standard evaluation tests. It performs on par with or better than comparable compact models in most benchmark categories, demonstrating reliable comprehension and response quality. Its strengths include interpreting complex documents, pulling accurate insights from video content, generating usable code, and delivering grounded answers based on provided information. -
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GPT-5.2
OpenAI
GPT-5.2 is the newest evolution in the GPT-5 series, engineered to deliver even greater intelligence, adaptability, and conversational depth. This release introduces enhanced model variants that refine how ChatGPT reasons, communicates, and responds to complex user intent. GPT-5.2 Instant remains the primary, high-usage model—now faster, more context-aware, and more precise in following instructions. GPT-5.2 Thinking takes advanced reasoning further, offering clearer step-by-step logic, improved consistency on multi-stage problems, and more efficient handling of long or intricate tasks. The system automatically routes each query to the most suitable variant, ensuring optimal performance without requiring user selection. Beyond raw intelligence gains, GPT-5.2 emphasizes more natural dialogue flow, stronger intent alignment, and a smoother, more humanlike communication style. -
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Grok 4.1 Thinking
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.1 Thinking is xAI’s advanced reasoning-focused AI model designed for deeper analysis, reflection, and structured problem-solving. It uses explicit thinking tokens to reason through complex prompts before delivering a response, resulting in more accurate and context-aware outputs. The model excels in tasks that require multi-step logic, nuanced understanding, and thoughtful explanations. Grok 4.1 Thinking demonstrates a strong, coherent personality while maintaining analytical rigor and reliability. It has achieved the top overall ranking on the LMArena Text Leaderboard, reflecting strong human preference in blind evaluations. The model also shows leading performance in emotional intelligence and creative reasoning benchmarks. Grok 4.1 Thinking is built for users who value clarity, depth, and defensible reasoning in AI interactions. -
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Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
Gemini 3.1 Pro is Google’s upgraded core intelligence model designed for complex tasks that require advanced reasoning. Building on the Gemini 3 series, it delivers significant improvements in problem-solving performance and logical pattern recognition. On the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, Gemini 3.1 Pro achieved a verified score of 77.1%, more than doubling the reasoning performance of Gemini 3 Pro. The model is engineered for challenges where simple answers are insufficient, enabling deeper analysis, synthesis, and creative output. It can generate practical outputs such as animated, website-ready SVGs directly from text prompts, combining intelligence with real-world usability. Gemini 3.1 Pro is rolling out in preview across consumer, developer, and enterprise platforms including the Gemini app, NotebookLM, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Android Studio. With expanded access for Google AI Pro and Ultra users, 3.1 Pro sets a stronger baseline for agentic workflows. -
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Seed2.0 Pro
ByteDance
Seed2.0 Pro is an advanced general-purpose agent model designed for large-scale production environments and complex real-world tasks. It focuses on long-chain inference capabilities and stability, making it ideal for handling multi-step workflows and intricate business applications. As part of the Seed 2.0 model series, it delivers major upgrades in multimodal understanding, including visual reasoning, motion perception, and instruction-following accuracy. The model demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across leading benchmarks in mathematics, science, coding, and visual reasoning. Seed2.0 Pro excels at interactive visual applications, such as recreating webpages from a single image and generating runnable front-end code with animations. It also supports professional workflows like CAD modeling, biotechnology research assistance, and structured data extraction from complex charts. -
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is Google’s fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 series, designed for high-volume developer workloads. It delivers strong performance at scale while maintaining affordability, with pricing set at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. The model significantly improves speed, offering a 2.5x faster time to first answer token and a 45% increase in output speed compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Despite its lower cost tier, it achieves high benchmark results, including an Elo score of 1432 and strong performance across reasoning and multimodal evaluations. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite supports adaptive “thinking levels,” allowing developers to control how much reasoning power is used for different tasks. It is suitable for large-scale applications such as translation, content moderation, user interface generation, and simulation building. -
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GPT-5.3 Instant
OpenAI
GPT-5.3 Instant is an updated version of ChatGPT’s most-used model, designed to make everyday conversations more fluid, helpful, and accurate. The release focuses on improving tone, relevance, and conversational flow based directly on user feedback. It reduces unnecessary refusals and cuts back on overly cautious disclaimers, delivering clearer and more direct answers when appropriate. The model also improves how it integrates web results, providing better-contextualized information rather than long lists of loosely connected links. Accuracy has been strengthened, with measurable reductions in hallucinations across both high-stakes domains and everyday queries. GPT-5.3 Instant enhances creative writing capabilities, producing more textured, emotionally resonant prose. It is available to all ChatGPT users and developers via the API under ‘gpt-5.3-chat-latest,’ with legacy versions scheduled for retirement. -
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GPT-5.4 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Pro is an advanced AI model developed by OpenAI to deliver high-performance capabilities for professional and complex tasks. It combines improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows into a single unified system. The model is designed to work efficiently across professional tools such as spreadsheets, presentations, documents, and development environments. GPT-5.4 Pro also includes native computer-use capabilities, enabling AI agents to interact with software, websites, and operating systems to complete tasks. With support for up to one million tokens of context, it can manage long workflows and large datasets more effectively than previous models. The model also improves tool usage, allowing it to search for and select the right tools during multi-step processes. By delivering more accurate outputs with fewer tokens, GPT-5.4 Pro helps professionals complete complex work faster and more efficiently. -
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GPT‑5.4 Thinking
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Thinking is an advanced reasoning-focused AI model available within ChatGPT, designed to help users complete complex professional tasks more effectively. It combines improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows to provide more accurate and reliable outputs. The model can present an upfront outline of its reasoning process, allowing users to adjust instructions while it is generating a response. This capability helps produce results that better align with user goals without requiring multiple follow-up prompts. GPT-5.4 Thinking also improves deep web research, enabling it to locate and synthesize information from multiple sources more efficiently. With stronger context management, it can handle longer conversations and complex problem-solving tasks with greater coherence. These capabilities make GPT-5.4 Thinking well suited for professional knowledge work and advanced analytical tasks. -
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Nemotron 3
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 is a family of open large language models developed by NVIDIA to power advanced reasoning, conversational AI, and autonomous AI agents. The Nemotron 3 series includes three models designed for different scales of AI workloads while maintaining high efficiency and accuracy. These models focus on “agentic AI” capabilities, meaning they can perform multi-step reasoning, coordinate with tools, and operate as components within multi-agent systems used in automation, research, and enterprise applications. The architecture uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts (MoE) design combined with transformer-based techniques, allowing the model to activate only a subset of parameters for each task, which improves performance while reducing computational cost. Nemotron 3 models are built to deliver strong reasoning, conversational, and planning abilities while maintaining high throughput for large-scale deployment. -
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Nemotron 3 Super
NVIDIA
Nemotron-3 Super is part of NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 family of open models designed to enable advanced agentic AI systems that can reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows across complex environments. The model introduces a hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts architecture that combines the efficiency of state-space Mamba layers with the contextual understanding of transformer attention, allowing it to process long sequences and complex reasoning tasks with high accuracy and throughput. This architecture activates only a subset of model parameters for each token, improving computational efficiency while maintaining strong reasoning capabilities and enabling scalable inference for large workloads. Nemotron-3 Super contains roughly 120 billion parameters with around 12 billion active during inference, accelerating multi-step reasoning and collaborative agent interactions across large contexts. -
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GPT-5.4 mini
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 mini is a fast and efficient AI model designed for high-performance tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal understanding. It delivers strong capabilities similar to larger models while maintaining lower latency and cost. The model is optimized for responsive applications where speed is critical, including coding assistants and real-time workflows. GPT-5.4 mini supports advanced features such as tool use, function calling, and image interpretation. It performs well on complex tasks while running significantly faster than previous mini models. The model is also suitable for subagent systems, where it handles smaller tasks within larger AI workflows. By combining speed, efficiency, and strong performance, GPT-5.4 mini enables scalable AI applications across various use cases. -
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GPT-5.4 nano
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 nano is a lightweight and highly efficient AI model designed for fast, cost-effective task execution. It is optimized for simple and high-volume tasks such as classification, data extraction, and basic coding support. The model delivers quick responses with minimal latency, making it ideal for real-time and large-scale applications. GPT-5.4 nano improves significantly over previous nano models in both performance and efficiency. It supports essential capabilities like tool use and structured data processing. The model is commonly used as a supporting component within larger AI systems. By focusing on speed and affordability, GPT-5.4 nano enables scalable automation across various workflows. -
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Qwen3.6-Plus
Alibaba
Qwen3.6-Plus is an advanced AI model developed by Alibaba Cloud, designed to power real-world intelligent agents and complex workflows. It introduces significant improvements in agentic coding, enabling developers to handle everything from frontend development to large-scale codebase management. The model features a massive 1 million token context window, allowing it to process and reason over long and complex inputs. It integrates reasoning, memory, and execution capabilities to deliver highly accurate and reliable results. Qwen3.6-Plus also enhances multimodal capabilities, enabling it to understand and analyze images, videos, and documents. The platform is optimized for real-world applications, including automation, planning, and tool-based workflows. Overall, it provides a powerful foundation for building next-generation AI agents and intelligent systems. -
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Sarvam-M
Sarvam
Sarvam-M is a multilingual, hybrid-reasoning large language model designed to deliver strong performance across Indian languages, mathematical reasoning, and programming tasks within a single, efficient system. Built on top of Mistral-Small, it is a 24-billion-parameter text-only model that has been enhanced through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, and inference optimizations to improve both accuracy and efficiency. The model is specifically trained to handle more than ten major Indic languages, supporting native scripts, romanized text, and code-mixed inputs, enabling seamless multilingual communication across diverse linguistic contexts. Sarvam-M introduces a hybrid reasoning approach that allows it to switch between “thinking” mode for complex tasks like math, logic, and coding, and faster response mode for everyday interactions, balancing performance and speed. -
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GPT-5.5 Thinking
OpenAI
GPT-5.5 Thinking is an advanced AI capability from OpenAI designed to handle complex, multi-step tasks with greater intelligence and autonomy. It enables users to provide high-level instructions while the model plans, executes, and refines tasks independently. The system excels in areas such as coding, research, data analysis, and document creation. It can navigate across tools, check its own work, and adapt to ambiguous or incomplete inputs. GPT-5.5 Thinking is optimized for both speed and efficiency, delivering high-quality outputs while using fewer computational resources. It also supports long-context understanding, allowing it to process large datasets and extended workflows. Strong safeguards are built in to ensure responsible and secure usage. Overall, it represents a shift toward more autonomous, agent-like AI that can complete real-world tasks end-to-end. -
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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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SubQ
Subquadratic
SubQ is a large language model developed by Subquadratic, designed specifically for long-context reasoning tasks. It can process up to 12 million tokens in a single prompt, allowing it to analyze entire codebases, long histories, and complex datasets at once. The model uses a sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture that improves efficiency by focusing only on the most relevant relationships in the data. This approach reduces computational overhead while maintaining strong performance on large-scale tasks. SubQ is optimized for use cases such as software engineering, coding agents, and long-context retrieval. It delivers fast processing speeds and operates at a lower cost compared to many traditional models. Developers can access SubQ through APIs or integrate it into coding tools for enhanced workflows. Its architecture enables scalable AI reasoning without the limitations of standard transformer models. -
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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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Command A+
Cohere AI
Command A+ is Cohere’s fastest and most powerful language model yet, an open-source enterprise workhorse built for complex reasoning, multimodal and multilingual agentic tasks, and efficient private deployment. It is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 218B total parameters and 25B active parameters, designed for high-performance agentic workflows with minimal compute overhead. Command A+ unifies capabilities from across the Command family into one scalable model, supporting text, image, reasoning, and tool use with a 128K input context, 64K max generation, and support for 48 languages. It is optimized for reasoning, agentic workflows, RAG, multilingual work, and multimodal document processing, with support for vLLM and Transformers. Compared with earlier Command A models, it improves enterprise workload performance across multimodal understanding, retrieval, long-horizon tasks, complex reasoning, coding, translation, and document understanding. -
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Qwen3.7-Plus
Alibaba
Qwen3.7-Plus is a multimodal agent model that unifies vision and language into a single, versatile agent foundation. Building on Qwen3.7’s agentic intelligence, it extends Qwen’s capabilities into visual understanding, visual reasoning, grounded interaction, and multimodal tool use, enabling agents to perceive, analyze, and act across text, images, documents, screens, and complex real-world contexts. It is designed for tasks that require more than static question answering, including visual search, document comprehension, chart and table analysis, screen understanding, GUI interaction, image-grounded reasoning, and agent workflows that combine perception with planning and execution. Qwen3.7-Plus strengthens the connection between language reasoning and visual evidence, allowing users to ask questions about images, interpret dense multimodal inputs, extract structured information, and generate responses that reflect both context and visual details. -
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MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft AI
MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft AI’s reasoning model, built for complex problems that matter most, with competitive reasoning and strong software engineering performance in its weight class. It is a 35B-active, approximately 1T-total-parameter sparse Mixture of Experts model, giving it a smaller inference footprint than much larger models while still matching leading models on key software engineering benchmarks. Microsoft trained MAI-Thinking-1 from the ground up on enterprise-grade, clean, commercially licensed data, without distillation from third-party models, so its capabilities are learned rather than inherited. The model is part of Microsoft AI’s Hill-Climbing Machine, a co-designed development pipeline built to make every component of model development continually and reliably improve over time. MAI-Thinking-1 is designed for agentic coding environments where models must read code, edit files, run tests, observe failures, and recover from intermediate mistakes. -
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SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic
SubQ 1.1 Small is a long-context AI model from Subquadratic designed to reason over complete enterprise artifacts such as codebases, document collections, contracts, and financial filings. It uses Subquadratic Sparse Attention, or SSA, to reduce the high compute costs normally associated with processing very large context windows. The model delivers near-perfect long-context retrieval across 1M, 2M, 6M, and 12M token tests while using far less attention compute than dense attention. SubQ 1.1 Small also maintains strong general reasoning, coding, knowledge, and agentic task performance across multiple benchmarks. Its capabilities make it useful for financial analysis, legal review, contract work, software engineering, due diligence, and other workflows where information is spread across large artifacts. SubQ is built for organizations that want to move beyond fragmented retrieval pipelines and enable direct reasoning over massive bodies of information. -
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Ming-Flash Omni 2.0
Ant Group
Ming-Flash Omni 2.0 is a full-modal large language model from Ant Group, built on a unified multimodal architecture with “modal unity + task unity” as its core design philosophy. As part of the Ming series, it is designed to achieve cross-modal understanding and generation across text, images, audio, and video, allowing one model to see, hear, speak, and draw instead of relying on multiple specialized models. Ming-Flash Omni 2.0 follows the evolution of Ming-Light Omni and Ming-Flash Omni Preview, moving from unified architecture validation and hundred-billion-parameter scaling to a Data Scaling strategy that achieves open-source SOTA performance on multiple benchmarks. The model integrates four core capability modules: image-text understanding, video analysis, speech synthesis, and image generation or editing. For image-text understanding, Ming introduces structured knowledge graphs for fine-grained visual perception. -
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Bonsai 27B
PrismML
Bonsai 27B is the new multimodal flagship of the Bonsai family and the first 27B-class model to run on a phone. Based on Qwen3.6 27B, it brings a new capability tier to local devices; multi-step reasoning, structured tool calls, vision tasks, and computer-use agentic loops that stay coherent across many steps. Bonsai 27B comes in two variants. Ternary Bonsai 27B uses ternary weights with FP16 group-wise scaling, giving 1.71 effective bits per weight and a 5.9 GB footprint for the quality-oriented laptop-class version. 1-bit Bonsai 27B uses binary weights with the same group-wise scaling, giving 1.125 effective bits per weight and a 3.9 GB footprint that fits within the memory budget of an iPhone 17 Pro. Both variants run end-to-end across the language network, embeddings, attention, MLPs, and LM head with no higher-precision escape hatches. They are multimodal, with a compact 4-bit vision tower, so on-device workflows can understand screenshots, documents, and camera input.
