Compare the Top Large Language Models in the UK as of November 2026 - Page 13

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    Inception Labs

    Inception Labs

    Inception Labs

    Inception Labs is pioneering the next generation of AI with diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs), a breakthrough in AI that offers 10x faster performance and 5-10x lower cost than traditional autoregressive models. Inspired by the success of diffusion models in image and video generation, Inception’s dLLMs introduce enhanced reasoning, error correction, and multimodal capabilities, allowing for more structured and accurate text generation. With applications spanning enterprise AI, research, and content generation, Inception’s approach sets a new standard for speed, efficiency, and control in AI-driven workflows.
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    Hunyuan T1

    Hunyuan T1

    Tencent

    ​​Hunyuan T1 is Tencent's deep-thinking AI model, now fully open to all users through the Tencent Yuanbao platform. This model excels in understanding multiple dimensions and potential logical relationships, making it suitable for handling complex tasks. Users can experience various AI models on the platform, including DeepSeek-R1 and Tencent Hunyuan Turbo. The official version of the Tencent Hunyuan T1 model will also be launched soon, providing external API access and other services. Built upon Tencent's Hunyuan large language model, Yuanbao excels in Chinese language understanding, logical reasoning, and task execution. It offers AI-based search, summaries, and writing capabilities, enabling users to analyze documents and engage in prompt-based interactions.
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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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    Reka Flash 3
    ​Reka Flash 3 is a 21-billion-parameter multimodal AI model developed by Reka AI, designed to excel in general chat, coding, instruction following, and function calling. It processes and reasons with text, images, video, and audio inputs, offering a compact, general-purpose solution for various applications. Trained from scratch on diverse datasets, including publicly accessible and synthetic data, Reka Flash 3 underwent instruction tuning on curated, high-quality data to optimize performance. The final training stage involved reinforcement learning using REINFORCE Leave One-Out (RLOO) with both model-based and rule-based rewards, enhancing its reasoning capabilities. With a context length of 32,000 tokens, Reka Flash 3 performs competitively with proprietary models like OpenAI's o1-mini, making it suitable for low-latency or on-device deployments. The model's full precision requires 39GB (fp16), but it can be compressed to as small as 11GB using 4-bit quantization.
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    Gemini 2.5 Flash
    Gemini 2.5 Flash is a powerful, low-latency AI model introduced by Google, designed for high-volume applications where speed and cost-efficiency are key. It delivers optimized performance for use cases like customer service, virtual assistants, and real-time data processing. With its dynamic reasoning capabilities, Gemini 2.5 Flash automatically adjusts processing time based on query complexity, offering granular control over the balance between speed, accuracy, and cost. It is ideal for businesses needing scalable AI solutions that maintain quality and efficiency.
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    Amazon Nova Micro
    Amazon Nova Micro is an AI model designed for high-speed, low-cost text processing and generation. It excels in language understanding, translation, code completion, and mathematical problem-solving, providing fast responses with a generation speed of over 200 tokens per second. The model supports fine-tuning for text input and is ideal for applications requiring real-time processing and efficiency. With support for 200+ languages and a maximum of 128k tokens, Nova Micro is perfect for interactive AI applications that prioritize speed and affordability.
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    Amazon Nova Lite
    Amazon Nova Lite is a cost-efficient, multimodal AI model designed for rapid processing of image, video, and text inputs. It delivers impressive performance at an affordable price, making it ideal for interactive, high-volume applications where cost is a key consideration. With support for fine-tuning across text, image, and video inputs, Nova Lite excels in a variety of tasks that require fast, accurate responses, such as content generation and real-time analytics.
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    Amazon Nova Pro
    Amazon Nova Pro is a versatile, multimodal AI model designed for a wide range of complex tasks, offering an optimal combination of accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency. It excels in video summarization, Q&A, software development, and AI agent workflows that require executing multi-step processes. With advanced capabilities in text, image, and video understanding, Nova Pro supports tasks like mathematical reasoning and content generation, making it ideal for businesses looking to implement cutting-edge AI in their operations.
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    Amazon Nova Premier
    Amazon Nova Premier is the most advanced model in their Nova family, designed to handle complex tasks and act as a teacher for model distillation. Available on Amazon Bedrock, Nova Premier can process text, images, and video inputs, making it capable of managing intricate workflows, multi-step planning, and the precise execution of tasks across various data sources. The model features a context length of one million tokens, enabling it to handle large-scale documents and code bases efficiently. Furthermore, Nova Premier allows users to create smaller, faster, and more cost-effective versions of its models, such as Nova Pro and Nova Micro, for specific use cases through model distillation.
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    Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think
    Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think is a cutting-edge AI model designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of machine learning models, offering improved performance and accuracy. This advanced version of the Gemini 2.5 series incorporates a feature called "Deep Think," allowing the model to reason through its thoughts before responding. It excels in coding, handling complex prompts, and multimodal tasks, offering smarter, more efficient execution. Whether for coding tasks, visual reasoning, or handling long-context input, Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think provides unparalleled performance. It also introduces features like native audio for more expressive conversations and optimizations that make it faster and more accurate than previous versions.
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    OpenAI o4-mini-high
    OpenAI o4-mini-high is an enhanced version of the o4-mini, optimized for higher reasoning capacity and performance. It maintains the same compact size but significantly boosts its ability to handle more complex tasks with improved efficiency. Whether you're dealing with large datasets, advanced mathematical computations, or intricate coding problems, o4-mini-high provides faster, more accurate responses, making it perfect for high-demand applications.
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    Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
    Gemini 2.5 is Google DeepMind’s latest generation AI model family, designed to deliver advanced reasoning and native multimodality with a long context window. It improves performance and accuracy by reasoning through its thoughts before responding. The model offers different versions tailored for complex coding tasks, fast everyday performance, and cost-efficient high-volume workloads. Gemini 2.5 supports multiple data types including text, images, video, audio, and PDFs, enabling versatile AI applications. It features adaptive thinking budgets and fine-grained control for developers to balance cost and output quality. Available via Google AI Studio and Gemini API, Gemini 2.5 powers next-generation AI experiences.
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    Grok 4 Heavy
    Grok 4 Heavy is the most powerful AI model offered by xAI, designed as a multi-agent system to deliver cutting-edge reasoning and intelligence. Built on the Colossus supercomputer, it achieves a 50% score on the challenging HLE benchmark, outperforming many competitors. This advanced model supports multimodal inputs including text and images, with plans to add video capabilities. Grok 4 Heavy targets power users such as developers, researchers, and technical enthusiasts who require top-tier AI performance. Access is provided through the premium “SuperGrok Heavy” subscription priced at $300 per month. xAI has enhanced moderation and removed problematic system prompts to ensure responsible and ethical AI use.
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    GLM-4.5
    GLM‑4.5 is Z.ai’s latest flagship model in the GLM family, engineered with 355 billion total parameters (32 billion active) and a companion GLM‑4.5‑Air variant (106 billion total, 12 billion active) to unify advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities in one architecture. It operates in a “thinking” mode for complex, multi‑step reasoning and tool use, and a “non‑thinking” mode for instant responses, supporting up to 128 K token context length and native function calling. Available via the Z.ai chat platform and API, with open weights on HuggingFace and ModelScope, GLM‑4.5 ingests diverse inputs to solve general problem‑solving, common‑sense reasoning, coding from scratch or within existing projects, and end‑to‑end agent workflows such as web browsing and slide generation. Built on a Mixture‑of‑Experts design with loss‑free balance routing, grouped‑query attention, and an MTP layer for speculative decoding, it delivers enterprise‑grade performance.
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    Claude Opus 4.1
    Claude Opus 4.1 is an incremental upgrade to Claude Opus 4 that boosts coding, agentic reasoning, and data-analysis performance without changing deployment complexity. It raises coding accuracy to 74.5 percent on SWE-bench Verified and sharpens in-depth research and detailed tracking for agentic search tasks. GitHub reports notable gains in multi-file code refactoring, while Rakuten Group highlights its precision in pinpointing exact corrections within large codebases without introducing bugs. Independent benchmarks show about a one-standard-deviation improvement on junior developer tests compared to Opus 4, mirroring major leaps seen in prior Claude releases.
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    GPT-5 pro
    GPT-5 Pro is OpenAI’s most advanced AI model, designed to tackle the most complex and challenging tasks with extended reasoning capabilities. It builds on GPT-5’s unified architecture, using scaled, efficient parallel compute to provide highly comprehensive and accurate responses. GPT-5 Pro achieves state-of-the-art performance on difficult benchmarks like GPQA, excelling in areas such as health, science, math, and coding. It makes significantly fewer errors than earlier models and delivers responses that experts find more relevant and useful. The model automatically balances quick answers and deep thinking, allowing users to get expert-level insights efficiently. GPT-5 Pro is available to Pro subscribers and powers some of the most demanding applications requiring advanced intelligence.
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    GPT-5 thinking
    GPT-5 Thinking is the deeper reasoning mode within the GPT-5 unified AI system, designed to tackle complex, open-ended problems that require extended cognitive effort. It works alongside the faster GPT-5 model, dynamically engaging when queries demand more detailed analysis and thoughtful responses. This mode significantly reduces hallucinations and improves factual accuracy, producing more reliable answers on challenging topics like science, math, coding, and health. GPT-5 Thinking is also better at recognizing its own limitations, communicating clearly when tasks are impossible or underspecified. It incorporates advanced safety features to minimize harmful outputs and provide nuanced, helpful answers even in ambiguous or sensitive contexts. Available to all users, it helps bring expert-level intelligence to everyday and advanced use cases alike.
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    MAI-1-preview

    MAI-1-preview

    Microsoft AI

    MAI-1 Preview is Microsoft AI’s first end-to-end trained foundation model, built entirely in-house as a mixture-of-experts architecture. Pre-trained and post-trained on approximately 15,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, it is designed to follow instructions and generate helpful, responsive text for everyday user queries, representing a prototype of future Copilot capabilities. Now available for public testing on LMArena, MAI-1 Preview delivers an early glimpse into the platform’s trajectory, with plans to roll out select text-based applications within Copilot over the coming weeks to gather user feedback and refine performance. Microsoft reinforces that it will continue combining its own models, partner models, and developments from the open-source community to flexibly power experiences across millions of unique interactions each day.
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    Claude Sonnet 4.5
    Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier model, designed to excel in long-horizon coding, agentic workflows, and intensive computer use while maintaining safety and alignment. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark (for software engineering) and leads on OSWorld (a computer use benchmark), with the ability to sustain focus over 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. The model introduces improvements in tool handling, memory management, and context processing, enabling more sophisticated reasoning, better domain understanding (from finance and law to STEM), and deeper code comprehension. It supports context editing and memory tools to sustain long conversations or multi-agent tasks, and allows code execution and file creation within Claude apps. Sonnet 4.5 is deployed at AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3), with classifiers protecting against inputs or outputs tied to risky domains, and includes mitigations against prompt injection.
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    GPT-5.1 Instant
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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

    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
    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
    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

    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
    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
    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.