Best Large Language Models - Page 4

Compare the Top Large Language Models as of April 2025 - Page 4

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    Llama 3
    We’ve integrated Llama 3 into Meta AI, our intelligent assistant, that expands the ways people can get things done, create and connect with Meta AI. You can see first-hand the performance of Llama 3 by using Meta AI for coding tasks and problem solving. Whether you're developing agents, or other AI-powered applications, Llama 3 in both 8B and 70B will offer the capabilities and flexibility you need to develop your ideas. With the release of Llama 3, we’ve updated the Responsible Use Guide (RUG) to provide the most comprehensive information on responsible development with LLMs. Our system-centric approach includes updates to our trust and safety tools with Llama Guard 2, optimized to support the newly announced taxonomy published by MLCommons expanding its coverage to a more comprehensive set of safety categories, code shield, and Cybersec Eval 2.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Codestral

    Codestral

    Mistral AI

    We introduce Codestral, our first-ever code model. Codestral is an open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks. It helps developers write and interact with code through a shared instruction and completion API endpoint. As it masters code and English, it can be used to design advanced AI applications for software developers. Codestral is trained on a diverse dataset of 80+ programming languages, including the most popular ones, such as Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, and Bash. It also performs well on more specific ones like Swift and Fortran. This broad language base ensures Codestral can assist developers in various coding environments and projects.
    Starting Price: Free
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    CodeQwen

    CodeQwen

    Alibaba

    CodeQwen is the code version of Qwen, the large language model series developed by the Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. It is a transformer-based decoder-only language model pre-trained on a large amount of data of codes. Strong code generation capabilities and competitive performance across a series of benchmarks. Supporting long context understanding and generation with the context length of 64K tokens. CodeQwen supports 92 coding languages and provides excellent performance in text-to-SQL, bug fixes, etc. You can just write several lines of code with transformers to chat with CodeQwen. Essentially, we build the tokenizer and the model from pre-trained methods, and we use the generate method to perform chatting with the help of the chat template provided by the tokenizer. We apply the ChatML template for chat models following our previous practice. The model completes the code snippets according to the given prompts, without any additional formatting.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Llama 3.1
    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 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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    IBM Granite
    IBM® Granite™ is a family of artificial intelligence (AI) models purpose-built for business, engineered from scratch to help ensure trust and scalability in AI-driven applications. Open source Granite models are available today. We make AI as accessible as possible for as many developers as possible. That’s why we have open-sourced core Granite Code, Time Series, Language, and GeoSpatial models and made them available on Hugging Face under permissive Apache 2.0 license that enables broad, unencumbered commercial usage. All Granite models are trained on carefully curated data, with industry-leading levels of transparency about the data that went into them. We have also open-sourced the tools we use to ensure the data is high quality and up to the standards that enterprise-grade applications demand.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Granite Code
    We introduce the Granite series of decoder-only code models for code generative tasks (e.g., fixing bugs, explaining code, documenting code), trained with code written in 116 programming languages. A comprehensive evaluation of the Granite Code model family on diverse tasks demonstrates that our models consistently reach state-of-the-art performance among available open source code LLMs. The key advantages of Granite Code models include: All-rounder Code LLM: Granite Code models achieve competitive or state-of-the-art performance on different kinds of code-related tasks, including code generation, explanation, fixing, editing, translation, and more. Demonstrating their ability to solve diverse coding tasks. Trustworthy Enterprise-Grade LLM: All our models are trained on license-permissible data collected following IBM's AI Ethics principles and guided by IBM’s Corporate Legal team for trustworthy enterprise usage.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Qwen2

    Qwen2

    Alibaba

    Qwen2 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. Qwen2 is a series of large language models developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. It includes both base language models and instruction-tuned models, ranging from 0.5 billion to 72 billion parameters, and features both dense models and a Mixture-of-Experts model. The Qwen2 series is designed to surpass most previous open-weight models, including its predecessor Qwen1.5, and to compete with proprietary models across a broad spectrum of benchmarks in language understanding, generation, multilingual capabilities, coding, mathematics, and reasoning.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Grok 2
    Grok-2, the latest iteration in AI technology, is a marvel of modern engineering, designed to push the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can achieve. Inspired by the wit and wisdom of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the efficiency of JARVIS from Iron Man, Grok-2 is not just another AI; it's a companion in the truest sense. With an expanded knowledge base that stretches up to the recent past, Grok-2 offers insights with a touch of humor and an outside perspective on humanity, making it uniquely engaging. Its capabilities include answering nearly any question with maximum helpfulness, often providing solutions that are both innovative and outside the conventional box. Grok-2's design emphasizes truthfulness, avoiding the pitfalls of woke culture, and strives to be maximally truthful, making it a reliable source of information and entertainment in an increasingly complex world.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Hermes 3

    Hermes 3

    Nous Research

    Experiment, and push the boundaries of individual alignment, artificial consciousness, open-source software, and decentralization, in ways that monolithic companies and governments are too afraid to try. Hermes 3 contains advanced long-term context retention and multi-turn conversation capability, complex roleplaying and internal monologue abilities, and enhanced agentic function-calling. Our training data aggressively encourages the model to follow the system and instruction prompts exactly and in an adaptive manner. Hermes 3 was created by fine-tuning Llama 3.1 8B, 70B, and 405B, and training on a dataset of primarily synthetically generated responses. The model boasts comparable and superior performance to Llama 3.1 while unlocking deeper capabilities in reasoning and creativity. Hermes 3 is a series of instruct and tool-use models with strong reasoning and creative abilities.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Qwen2-VL

    Qwen2-VL

    Alibaba

    Qwen2-VL is the latest version of the vision language models based on Qwen2 in the Qwen model familities. Compared with Qwen-VL, Qwen2-VL has the capabilities of: SoTA understanding of images of various resolution & ratio: Qwen2-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance on visual understanding benchmarks, including MathVista, DocVQA, RealWorldQA, MTVQA, etc. Understanding videos of 20 min+: Qwen2-VL can understand videos over 20 minutes for high-quality video-based question answering, dialog, content creation, etc. Agent that can operate your mobiles, robots, etc.: with the abilities of complex reasoning and decision making, Qwen2-VL can be integrated with devices like mobile phones, robots, etc., for automatic operation based on visual environment and text instructions. Multilingual Support: to serve global users, besides English and Chinese, Qwen2-VL now supports the understanding of texts in different languages inside images
    Starting Price: Free
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    Llama 3.2
    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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    Palmyra LLM
    Palmyra is a suite of Large Language Models (LLMs) engineered for precise, dependable performance in enterprise applications. These models excel in tasks such as question-answering, image analysis, and support for over 30 languages, with fine-tuning available for industries like healthcare and finance. Notably, Palmyra models have achieved top rankings in benchmarks like Stanford HELM and PubMedQA, and Palmyra-Fin is the first model to pass the CFA Level III exam. Writer ensures data privacy by not using client data to train or modify their models, adopting a zero data retention policy. The Palmyra family includes specialized models such as Palmyra X 004, featuring tool-calling capabilities; Palmyra Med, tailored for healthcare; Palmyra Fin, designed for finance; and Palmyra Vision, which offers advanced image and video processing. These models are available through Writer's full-stack generative AI platform, which integrates graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
    Starting Price: $18 per month
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    Qwen2.5

    Qwen2.5

    Alibaba

    Qwen2.5 is an advanced multimodal AI model designed to provide highly accurate and context-aware responses across a wide range of applications. It builds on the capabilities of its predecessors, integrating cutting-edge natural language understanding with enhanced reasoning, creativity, and multimodal processing. Qwen2.5 can seamlessly analyze and generate text, interpret images, and interact with complex data to deliver precise solutions in real time. Optimized for adaptability, it excels in personalized assistance, data analysis, creative content generation, and academic research, making it a versatile tool for professionals and everyday users alike. Its user-centric design emphasizes transparency, efficiency, and alignment with ethical AI practices.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Marco-o1

    Marco-o1

    AIDC-AI

    Marco-o1 is a robust, next-generation AI model tailored for high-performance natural language processing and real-time problem-solving. It is engineered to deliver precise and contextually rich responses, combining deep language comprehension with a streamlined architecture for speed and efficiency. Marco-o1 excels in a variety of applications, including conversational AI, content creation, technical support, and decision-making tasks, adapting seamlessly to diverse user needs. With a focus on intuitive interactions, reliability, and ethical AI principles, Marco-o1 stands out as a cutting-edge solution for individuals and organizations seeking intelligent, adaptive, and scalable AI-driven tools. MCTS allows the exploration of multiple reasoning paths using confidence scores derived from softmax-applied log probabilities of the top-k alternative tokens, guiding the model to optimal solutions.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Lune AI

    Lune AI

    LuneAI

    A community-driven marketplace of individual expert LLMs created by devs on technical topics that outperform standalone AI models. Reduce hallucinations on technical queries with Lunes that keep themselves up-to-date on various technical knowledge sources such as Github repositories, documentation, and more. Get references back just like Perplexity. Find and use hundreds of Lunes other users have created ranging from Lunes trained on open-source tools, to curated collections of tech blog posts. Create one from a variety of sources, including your own projects, and get exposure. Our API is hot-swappable with OpenAI's. Easily integrate with Cursor, Continue, and other various tools that support OpenAI-compatible models. Carry on with your conversations from your IDE to Lune Web at any time. Make a contribution directly within the chat, and get paid for every approved feedback. Or create a public Lune and share it out and get paid for your Lune's popularity.
    Starting Price: $10 per month
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    OpenGPT-X

    OpenGPT-X

    OpenGPT-X

    OpenGPT-X is a German initiative focused on developing large AI language models tailored to European needs, emphasizing versatility, trustworthiness, multilingual capabilities, and open-source accessibility. The project brings together a consortium of partners to cover the entire generative AI value chain, from scalable, GPU-based infrastructure and data for training large language models to model design and practical applications through prototypes and proofs of concept. OpenGPT-X aims to advance cutting-edge research with a strong focus on business applications, thereby accelerating the adoption of generative AI in the German economy. The project also emphasizes responsible AI development, ensuring that the models are trustworthy and align with European values and regulations. The project provides resources such as the LLM Workbook, and a three-part reference guide with resources and examples to help users understand the key features of large AI language models.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Teuken 7B

    Teuken 7B

    OpenGPT-X

    Teuken-7B is a multilingual, open source language model developed under the OpenGPT-X initiative, specifically designed to cater to Europe's diverse linguistic landscape. It has been trained on a dataset comprising over 50% non-English texts, encompassing all 24 official languages of the European Union, ensuring robust performance across these languages. A key innovation in Teuken-7B is its custom multilingual tokenizer, optimized for European languages, which enhances training efficiency and reduces inference costs compared to standard monolingual tokenizers. The model is available in two versions, Teuken-7B-Base, the foundational pre-trained model, and Teuken-7B-Instruct, which has undergone instruction tuning for improved performance in following user prompts. Both versions are accessible on Hugging Face, promoting transparency and collaboration within the AI community. The development of Teuken-7B underscores a commitment to creating AI models that reflect Europe's diversity.
    Starting Price: Free
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    LLaVA

    LLaVA

    LLaVA

    LLaVA (Large Language-and-Vision Assistant) is an innovative multimodal model that integrates a vision encoder with the Vicuna language model to facilitate comprehensive visual and language understanding. Through end-to-end training, LLaVA exhibits impressive chat capabilities, emulating the multimodal functionalities of models like GPT-4. Notably, LLaVA-1.5 has achieved state-of-the-art performance across 11 benchmarks, utilizing publicly available data and completing training in approximately one day on a single 8-A100 node, surpassing methods that rely on billion-scale datasets. The development of LLaVA involved the creation of a multimodal instruction-following dataset, generated using language-only GPT-4. This dataset comprises 158,000 unique language-image instruction-following samples, including conversations, detailed descriptions, and complex reasoning tasks. This data has been instrumental in training LLaVA to perform a wide array of visual and language tasks effectively.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Llama 3.3
    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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    Sky-T1

    Sky-T1

    NovaSky

    Sky-T1-32B-Preview is an open source reasoning model developed by the NovaSky team at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab. It matches the performance of proprietary models like o1-preview on reasoning and coding benchmarks, yet was trained for under $450, showcasing the feasibility of cost-effective, high-level reasoning capabilities. The model was fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct using a curated dataset of 17,000 examples across diverse domains, including math and coding. The training was completed in 19 hours on eight H100 GPUs with DeepSpeed Zero-3 offloading. All aspects of the project, including data, code, and model weights, are fully open-source, empowering the academic and open-source communities to replicate and enhance the model's performance.
    Starting Price: Free
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    fullmoon

    fullmoon

    fullmoon

    Fullmoon is a free, open source application that enables users to interact with large language models directly on their devices, ensuring privacy and offline accessibility. Optimized for Apple silicon, it operates seamlessly across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS platforms. Users can personalize the app by adjusting themes, fonts, and system prompts, and it integrates with Apple's Shortcuts for enhanced functionality. Fullmoon supports models like Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit and Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit, facilitating efficient on-device AI interactions without the need for an internet connection.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Open R1

    Open R1

    Open R1

    Open R1 is a community-driven, open-source initiative aimed at replicating the advanced AI capabilities of DeepSeek-R1 through transparent methodologies. You can try Open R1 AI model or DeepSeek R1 free online chat on Open R1. The project offers a comprehensive implementation of DeepSeek-R1's reasoning-optimized training pipeline, including tools for GRPO training, SFT fine-tuning, and synthetic data generation, all under the MIT license. While the original training data remains proprietary, Open R1 provides the complete toolchain for users to develop and fine-tune their own models.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Janus-Pro-7B
    Janus-Pro-7B is an innovative open-source multimodal AI model from DeepSeek, designed to excel in both understanding and generating content across text, images, and videos. It leverages a unique autoregressive architecture with separate pathways for visual encoding, enabling high performance in tasks ranging from text-to-image generation to complex visual comprehension. This model outperforms competitors like DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion in various benchmarks, offering scalability with versions from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters. Licensed under the MIT License, Janus-Pro-7B is freely available for both academic and commercial use, providing a significant leap in AI capabilities while being accessible on major operating systems like Linux, MacOS, and Windows through Docker.
    Starting Price: Free
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    DeepSeek-V2

    DeepSeek-V2

    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-V2 is a state-of-the-art Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model introduced by DeepSeek-AI, characterized by its economical training and efficient inference capabilities. With a total of 236 billion parameters, of which only 21 billion are active per token, it supports a context length of up to 128K tokens. DeepSeek-V2 employs innovative architectures like Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) for efficient inference by compressing the Key-Value (KV) cache and DeepSeekMoE for cost-effective training through sparse computation. This model significantly outperforms its predecessor, DeepSeek 67B, by saving 42.5% in training costs, reducing the KV cache by 93.3%, and enhancing generation throughput by 5.76 times. Pretrained on an 8.1 trillion token corpus, DeepSeek-V2 excels in language understanding, coding, and reasoning tasks, making it a top-tier performer among open-source models.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Falcon Mamba 7B

    Falcon Mamba 7B

    Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

    Falcon Mamba 7B is the first open-source State Space Language Model (SSLM), introducing a groundbreaking architecture for Falcon models. Recognized as the top-performing open-source SSLM worldwide by Hugging Face, it sets a new benchmark in AI efficiency. Unlike traditional transformers, SSLMs operate with minimal memory requirements and can generate extended text sequences without additional overhead. Falcon Mamba 7B surpasses leading transformer-based models, including Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral’s 7B, showcasing superior performance. This innovation underscores Abu Dhabi’s commitment to advancing AI research and development on a global scale.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Falcon 2

    Falcon 2

    Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

    Falcon 2 11B is an open-source, multilingual, and multimodal AI model, uniquely equipped with vision-to-language capabilities. It surpasses Meta’s Llama 3 8B and delivers performance on par with Google’s Gemma 7B, as independently confirmed by the Hugging Face Leaderboard. Looking ahead, the next phase of development will integrate a 'Mixture of Experts' approach to further enhance Falcon 2’s capabilities, pushing the boundaries of AI innovation.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Falcon 3

    Falcon 3

    Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

    Falcon 3 is an open-source large language model (LLM) developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) to make advanced AI accessible to a broader audience. Designed for efficiency, it operates seamlessly on lightweight devices, including laptops, without compromising performance. The Falcon 3 ecosystem comprises four scalable models, each tailored to diverse applications, and supports multiple languages while optimizing resource usage. This latest iteration in TII's LLM series achieves state-of-the-art results in reasoning, language understanding, instruction following, code, and mathematics tasks. By combining high performance with resource efficiency, Falcon 3 aims to democratize access to AI, empowering users across various sectors to leverage advanced technology without the need for extensive computational resources.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Qwen2.5-Max
    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

    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