Purpose guide · Multimodal

Which AI models belong on a multimodal shortlist?

Catalog current through July 21, 2026

192 models

Source-backed models whose Epoch records explicitly include a multimodal, vision, image, or audio domain. This is a capability map, not a quality ranking.

Selection rule

Included when the Epoch record explicitly lists multimodal, vision, image generation, or audio as a domain. Domain membership does not prove support for every media type or task.

Task-fit shortlist

Evidence first. Your evaluation next.

Ordered by release date for readability, newest first. The order is not a score or recommendation.

  1. 01
    Anthropic

    Claude Fable 5

    Released June 9, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  2. 02
    Anthropic

    Claude Mythos 5

    Released June 9, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  3. 03
    Microsoft

    MAI-Image-2.5

    Released June 2, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  4. 04
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.5

    Released April 23, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  5. 05
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.5 Pro

    Released April 23, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  6. 06
    OpenAI

    GPT Image 2

    Released April 21, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  7. 07
    Google

    Gemini Flash 3.1 TTS

    Released April 15, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Audio
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  8. 08
    Meta

    Muse Spark

    Released April 8, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  9. 09
    Alibaba

    Qwen 3.6 Plus

    Released April 1, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  10. 10
    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash

    Released March 29, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  11. 11
    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus

    Released March 29, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  12. 12
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.4

    Released March 5, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  13. 13
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.4 Pro

    Released March 5, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  14. 14
    Google

    Gemini 3.1 Pro

    Released February 19, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  15. 15
    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

    Released February 13, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  16. 16
    ByteDance

    Seedance 2.0

    Released February 12, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Image generation · Audio
    Domain
    Image generation · Video · Audio
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  17. 17
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.2 Pro

    Released December 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  18. 18
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4.5

    Released November 24, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  19. 19
    Google

    Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro)

    Released November 20, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  20. 20
    Google

    Gemini 3 Pro

    Released November 18, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  21. 21
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1

    Released November 13, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  22. 22
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1 Instant

    Released November 13, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  23. 23
    Google

    Veo 3.1

    Released October 15, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Video · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  24. 24
    OpenAI

    GPT-5 Pro

    Released October 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  25. 25
    Anthropic

    Claude Sonnet 4.5

    Released September 29, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  26. 26
    Google

    Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5

    Released September 25, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision · Language · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  27. 27
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B

    Released September 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Speech · Video
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  28. 28
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)

    Released August 26, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  29. 29
    OpenAI

    GPT-5

    Released August 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  30. 30
    OpenAI

    GPT-5 mini

    Released August 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  31. 31
    OpenAI

    GPT-5 nano

    Released August 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  32. 32
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4.1

    Released August 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  33. 33
    Alibaba

    Qwen Image

    Released August 4, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Image generation · Vision
    Domain
    Image generation · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  34. 34
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

    Released August 1, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Video · Audio · Mathematics
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  35. 35
    xAI

    Grok 4

    Released July 9, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  36. 36
    ByteDance

    Seed-1.6-Thinking

    Released June 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  37. 37
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Pro (Jun 2025)

    Released June 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Video · Multimodal · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  38. 38
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4

    Released May 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  39. 39
    Anthropic

    Claude Sonnet 4

    Released May 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  40. 40
    Google

    Veo 3

    Released May 21, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Video · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  41. 41
    Google

    Imagen 4

    Released May 20, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  42. 42
    ByteDance

    Seed1.5-VL

    Released May 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Vision · Language · Multimodal · Video
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  43. 43
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Pro (May 2025)

    Released May 6, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Video · Multimodal · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  44. 44
    OpenAI

    gpt-image-1

    Released April 23, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Image generation · Vision
    Domain
    Image generation · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  45. 45
    Meta

    Llama 4 Behemoth (preview)

    Released April 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  46. 46
    Meta

    Llama 4 Maverick

    Released April 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  47. 47
    Meta

    Llama 4 Scout

    Released April 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  48. 48
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Mar 2025)

    Released March 27, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Audio · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  49. 49
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Pro (Mar 2025)

    Released March 25, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Video · Multimodal · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  50. 50
    OpenAI

    o1-pro

    Released March 19, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Mathematics · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  51. 51
    Baidu

    ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B (文心大模型4.5)

    Released March 16, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Video
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  52. 52
    Mistral

    Mistral OCR

    Released March 6, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  53. 53
    OpenAI

    GPT-4.5

    Released February 27, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  54. 54
    Anthropic

    Claude 3.7 Sonnet

    Released February 24, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  55. 55
    xAI

    Grok 3

    Released February 17, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  56. 56
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Jan 2025)

    Released January 29, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Audio · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  57. 57
    OpenAI

    Computer-Using Agent (CUA)

    Released January 23, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Vision · Language · Multimodal
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  58. 58
    Moonshot AI

    Kimi k1.5

    Released January 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  59. 59
    OpenAI

    o3

    Released December 20, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  60. 60
    Google

    Veo 2

    Released December 16, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Video · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  61. 61
    Google

    Gemini 2.0 Pro

    Released December 11, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Video · Audio
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  62. 62
    OpenAI

    Sora Turbo

    Released December 9, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Video · Vision
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  63. 63
    ByteDance

    Infinity

    Released December 5, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  64. 64
    OpenAI

    o1

    Released December 5, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Mathematics · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  65. 65
    Amazon

    Amazon Nova Pro

    Released December 3, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Video · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  66. 66
    NVIDIA

    Fugatto 1

    Released November 25, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Audio
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  67. 67
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Nov 2024)

    Released November 20, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Audio · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  68. 68
    Mistral

    Pixtral Large

    Released November 18, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  69. 69
    ByteDance

    SeedEdit

    Released November 11, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  70. 70
    NVIDIA

    NVLM-D 72B

    Released October 22, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision · Language
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  71. 71
    NVIDIA

    NVLM-H 72B

    Released October 22, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  72. 72
    NVIDIA

    NVLM-X 72B

    Released October 22, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  73. 73
    Meta

    Movie Gen Video

    Released October 4, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Video · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  74. 74
    Meta

    Llama 3.2 11B

    Released September 24, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  75. 75
    ByteDance

    PixelDance

    Released September 24, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Video · Vision
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  76. 76
    xAI

    Grok-2

    Released August 13, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  77. 77
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Aug 2024)

    Released August 6, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Audio · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  78. 78
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o mini

    Released July 18, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  79. 79
    Baidu

    Ernie 4.0 Turbo

    Released June 28, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  80. 80
    Anthropic

    Claude 3.5 Sonnet

    Released June 20, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  81. 81
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o

    Released May 13, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Audio · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  82. 82
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 Turbo (Apr 2024)

    Released April 9, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Image generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  83. 83
    Anthropic

    Claude 3 Opus

    Released March 4, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  84. 84
    Anthropic

    Claude 3 Sonnet

    Released March 4, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  85. 85
    Google

    Gemini 1.5 Pro

    Released February 15, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  86. 86
    OpenAI

    Sora

    Released February 15, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Video · Vision
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  87. 87
    Alibaba

    Qwen-VL-Max

    Released January 25, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  88. 88
    Google

    Gemini Nano-1

    Released December 19, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Audio
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  89. 89
    Google

    Gemini Nano-2

    Released December 19, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Audio
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  90. 90
    Google

    Gemini 1.0 Pro

    Released December 6, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  91. 91
    Google

    Gemini 1.0 Ultra

    Released December 6, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  92. 92
    Alibaba

    Qwen-Audio-Chat

    Released November 14, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Language · Speech · Audio
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  93. 93
    Alibaba

    mPLUG-Owl2

    Released November 7, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Vision · Language · Multimodal
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  94. 94
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 Turbo (Nov 2023)

    Released November 6, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Image generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  95. 95
    Z.ai

    ChatGLM3-6B

    Released October 27, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  96. 96
    OpenAI

    DALL·E 3

    Released October 19, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  97. 97
    Baidu

    ERNIE 4.0

    Released October 17, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Image generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Video · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  98. 98
    Google

    PaLI-3

    Released October 17, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  99. 99
    Amazon

    Amazon Titan

    Released September 28, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Language · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  100. 100
    OpenAI

    GPT-4V

    Released September 25, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  101. 101
    Alibaba

    Qwen-VL

    Released August 24, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  102. 102
    Google

    AudioLM

    Released July 26, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Audio
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  103. 103
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 (Jun 2023)

    Released June 13, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  104. 104
    Meta

    MusicGen

    Released June 8, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Audio
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  105. 105
    Google

    PaLI-X

    Released May 29, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Video
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  106. 106
    Meta

    ImageBind

    Released May 9, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio · Image generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio · Language · Image generation · Speech
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  107. 107
    Meta

    Segment Anything Model

    Released April 5, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  108. 108
    Google

    SigLIP 400M

    Released March 27, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  109. 109
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 (Mar 2023)

    Released March 15, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  110. 110
    Google

    ViT-22B

    Released February 10, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  111. 111
    Google

    MusicLM

    Released January 26, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Audio
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  112. 112
    Microsoft

    VALL-E

    Released January 5, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Audio · Speech
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  113. 113
    NVIDIA

    eDiff-I

    Released November 2, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  114. 114
    Meta

    EnCodec

    Released October 24, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Audio
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  115. 115
    Google

    PaLI

    Released September 14, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Multimodal
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  116. 116
    Microsoft

    BEIT-3

    Released August 22, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  117. 117
    Google

    Parti

    Released June 22, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  118. 118
    Google

    CoCa

    Released June 14, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  119. 119
    Microsoft

    MetaLM

    Released June 13, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  120. 120
    Google

    Imagen

    Released May 23, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  121. 121
    Google

    Gato

    Released May 12, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal
    Domain
    Multimodal · Robotics · Games · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  122. 122
    Google

    Flamingo

    Released April 29, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language · Video
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  123. 123
    Google

    XMC-GAN

    Released April 14, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  124. 124
    OpenAI

    DALL·E 2

    Released April 6, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  125. 125
    Meta

    Make-A-Scene

    Released March 24, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  126. 126
    Google

    MaskGIT (ImageNet)

    Released February 8, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  127. 127
    Meta

    data2vec (vision)

    Released January 20, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  128. 128
    Baidu

    ERNIE-ViLG

    Released December 31, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Image generation · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Image generation · Vision · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  129. 129
    Microsoft

    Florence

    Released November 22, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  130. 130
    Google

    BASIC-L

    Released November 19, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  131. 131
    Google

    ViT-G/14 (LiT)

    Released November 15, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  132. 132
    Meta

    Masked Autoencoders ViT-H

    Released November 11, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  133. 133
    Google

    EfficientNetV2-XL

    Released June 23, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  134. 134
    Google

    ALIGN

    Released June 11, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  135. 135
    Google

    CoAtNet

    Released June 9, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  136. 136
    Google

    ViT-G/14

    Released June 8, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  137. 137
    Google

    Transformer local-attention (NesT-B)

    Released May 26, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  138. 138
    OpenAI

    ADM

    Released May 11, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  139. 139
    Alibaba

    M6-T

    Released March 5, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  140. 140
    Google

    Meta Pseudo Labels

    Released March 1, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  141. 141
    OpenAI

    CLIP (ResNet-50)

    Released January 5, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language · Video
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  142. 142
    OpenAI

    CLIP (ViT L/14@336px)

    Released January 5, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language · Video
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  143. 143
    OpenAI

    DALL-E

    Released January 5, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  144. 144
    Google

    ViT-Base/32

    Released October 22, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  145. 145
    Google

    ViT-Huge/14

    Released October 22, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  146. 146
    Google

    EfficientDet

    Released July 27, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  147. 147
    Meta

    DETR

    Released May 26, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  148. 148
    Google

    SimCLR

    Released February 13, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  149. 149
    Google

    Perceiver IO (optical flow)

    Released February 8, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Multimodal · Vision
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  150. 150
    Google

    Big Transfer (BiT-L)

    Released December 24, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  151. 151
    Meta

    MoCo

    Released November 13, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Image generation
    Domain
    Vision · Image generation
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  152. 152
    Google

    BigBiGAN

    Released July 4, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Image generation
    Domain
    Vision · Image generation
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  153. 153
    Meta

    FixRes ResNeXt-101 WSL

    Released June 14, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  154. 154
    Google

    EfficientNet-L2

    Released May 28, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  155. 155
    Meta

    ResNeXt-101 Billion-scale

    Released May 2, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  156. 156
    OpenAI

    MuseNet

    Released April 25, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Audio
    Domain
    Audio
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  157. 157
    NVIDIA

    StyleGAN

    Released December 12, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  158. 158
    Google

    SPN (ImageNet 128)

    Released December 4, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Image generation
    Domain
    Image generation
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  159. 159
    IBM

    Big-Little Net

    Released July 10, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  160. 160
    Google

    MobileNetV2

    Released June 18, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  161. 161
    Meta

    ResNeXt-101 32x48d

    Released May 2, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  162. 162
    Google

    DeepLabV3+

    Released February 7, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  163. 163
    Baidu

    DL scaling Image

    Released December 1, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  164. 164
    Google

    VQ-VAE

    Released November 2, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  165. 165
    NVIDIA

    ProgressiveGAN

    Released October 27, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  166. 166
    Meta

    RetinaNet-R101

    Released August 7, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  167. 167
    Meta

    RetinaNet-R50

    Released August 7, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  168. 168
    Google

    NASNet-A

    Released July 21, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  169. 169
    Google

    DeepLabV3

    Released June 17, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  170. 170
    Google

    MobileNet

    Released April 17, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  171. 171
    Meta

    Mask R-CNN

    Released March 30, 2017

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  172. 172
    OpenAI

    GAN-Advancer

    Released December 5, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  173. 173
    Google

    Elastic weight consolidation

    Released December 2, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision · Games
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  174. 174
    Meta

    DTN (Domain Transfer Network)

    Released November 7, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision · Image generation
    Domain
    Vision · Image generation
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  175. 175
    Google

    NASv3 (CIFAR-10)

    Released November 5, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  176. 176
    Google

    Xception

    Released October 7, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  177. 177
    Microsoft

    ResNet-1001

    Released September 17, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  178. 178
    Google

    PixelCNN

    Released June 16, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  179. 179
    Google

    Inception-ResNet-V2

    Released February 23, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  180. 180
    Google

    Inceptionv4

    Released February 23, 2016

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  181. 181
    Microsoft

    ResNet-101 (ImageNet)

    Released December 10, 2015

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  182. 182
    Microsoft

    ResNet-110 (CIFAR-10)

    Released December 10, 2015

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  183. 183
    Microsoft

    ResNet-152 (ImageNet)

    Released December 10, 2015

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  184. 184
    Google

    BatchNorm

    Released June 15, 2015

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  185. 185
    Microsoft

    Faster R-CNN

    Released June 4, 2015

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  186. 186
    Microsoft

    Fast R-CNN

    Released April 30, 2015

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  187. 187
    Microsoft

    MSRA (C, PReLU)

    Released February 6, 2015

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  188. 188
    Microsoft

    Deeply-supervised nets

    Released September 18, 2014

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  189. 189
    Google

    DeViSE

    Released December 5, 2013

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  190. 190
    Google

    DistBelief Vision

    Released December 3, 2012

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  191. 191
    Google

    Unsupervised High-level Feature Learner

    Released July 12, 2012

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  192. 192
    IBM

    Print Recognition Logic

    Released January 1, 1963

    Matching evidence
    Vision
    Domain
    Vision
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source

Decision criteria

Questions the source can help you ask.

These checks narrow an evaluation plan. They do not replace hands-on testing.

01

Which inputs and outputs matter?

Distinguish image understanding, image generation, OCR, visual question answering, and audio. The domain labels are not interchangeable.

02

Is the workflow mixed-media?

Test the full handoff between text, files, images, and tools. A multimodal label alone does not establish format support or reliable cross-modal reasoning.

03

What must you test yourself?

Evaluate media quality, instruction following, file limits, safety, latency, and cost on representative assets. Those measurements are not in this catalog.

Evidence boundary

What this guide does not know.

No task-level quality, price, context window, latency, or reliability measurement is present in the Epoch catalog. We therefore publish no ranking or “best” label.

Catalog source: Epoch AI Data on AI Models, retrieved 2026-07-21, CC-BY. Artifact sha256:80ad08198183693101ceb246a5ea272d64c06c147fc41f72cca8526b32483424.

Each listed model links to its model-level source above. See the publication source ledger and methodology for the wider evidence policy.