Purpose guide · Writing and marketing

Which AI models belong on a writing and marketing shortlist?

Catalog current through July 21, 2026

213 models

Source-backed models explicitly labeled for language generation or chat. The labels establish relevance, not writing quality or brand fit.

Selection rule

Included when the Epoch record explicitly lists language modeling/generation, language generation, or chat. These broad labels do not prove copy quality, factual accuracy, persuasion, or brand adherence.

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
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  2. 02
    Anthropic

    Claude Mythos 5

    Released June 9, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  3. 03
    NVIDIA

    Nemotron 3 Ultra

    Released June 4, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  4. 04
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4.8

    Released May 28, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  5. 05
    Alibaba

    Qwen 3.7 Max

    Released May 19, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  6. 06
    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash

    Released April 24, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  7. 07
    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-V4-Pro

    Released April 24, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  8. 08
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.5

    Released April 23, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  9. 09
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.5 Pro

    Released April 23, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  10. 10
    Tencent

    Tencent Hy3 preview

    Released April 23, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  11. 11
    Moonshot AI

    Kimi K2.6

    Released April 20, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  12. 12
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4.7

    Released April 16, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  13. 13
    Meta

    Muse Spark

    Released April 8, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  14. 14
    Z.ai

    GLM-5.1

    Released April 7, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  15. 15
    Alibaba

    Qwen 3.6 Plus

    Released April 1, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  16. 16
    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash

    Released March 29, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  17. 17
    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus

    Released March 29, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Audio
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  18. 18
    NVIDIA

    Nemotron 3 Super

    Released March 11, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Not documented in source; weight status unknown
    Model source
  19. 19
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.4

    Released March 5, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  20. 20
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.4 Pro

    Released March 5, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  21. 21
    Google

    Gemini 3.0 Flash-lite

    Released March 3, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  22. 22
    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

    Released February 24, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  23. 23
    Google

    Gemini 3.1 Pro

    Released February 19, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  24. 24
    Z.ai

    GLM-5

    Released February 17, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  25. 25
    xAI

    Grok 4.20

    Released February 17, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  26. 26
    Alibaba

    Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

    Released February 13, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  27. 27
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.3 Codex

    Released February 5, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  28. 28
    Moonshot AI

    Kimi K2.5

    Released February 2, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  29. 29
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-Coder-Next

    Released February 2, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  30. 30
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-Max-Thinking

    Released January 25, 2026

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  31. 31
    MiniMax

    MiniMax-M2.1

    Released December 23, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  32. 32
    Z.ai

    GLM-4.7

    Released December 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  33. 33
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.2 Codex

    Released December 18, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  34. 34
    NVIDIA

    Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B

    Released December 15, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  35. 35
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.2

    Released December 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  36. 36
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.2 Pro

    Released December 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  37. 37
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4.5

    Released November 24, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat · Language generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  38. 38
    Ai2

    Olmo 3

    Released November 20, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  39. 39
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

    Released November 19, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  40. 40
    xAI

    Grok 4.1 Fast

    Released November 19, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  41. 41
    Google

    Gemini 3 Pro

    Released November 18, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  42. 42
    xAI

    Grok 4.1

    Released November 17, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  43. 43
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1

    Released November 13, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  44. 44
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1 Instant

    Released November 13, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  45. 45
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1-Codex

    Released November 12, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  46. 46
    Moonshot AI

    Kimi K2 Thinking

    Released November 6, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  47. 47
    Alibaba

    Tongyi DeepResearch

    Released October 28, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  48. 48
    MiniMax

    MiniMax-M2

    Released October 27, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  49. 49
    Anthropic

    Claude Haiku 4.5

    Released October 15, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  50. 50
    OpenAI

    GPT-5 Pro

    Released October 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  51. 51
    Anthropic

    Claude Sonnet 4.5

    Released September 29, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  52. 52
    Google

    Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5

    Released September 25, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Vision · Language · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  53. 53
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B

    Released September 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Speech · Video
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  54. 54
    Alibaba

    AgentFounder-30B

    Released September 16, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  55. 55
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-Max

    Released September 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  56. 56
    OpenAI

    GPT-5

    Released August 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  57. 57
    OpenAI

    GPT-5 mini

    Released August 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  58. 58
    OpenAI

    GPT-5 nano

    Released August 7, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  59. 59
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4.1

    Released August 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  60. 60
    OpenAI

    gpt-oss-120b

    Released August 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  61. 61
    OpenAI

    gpt-oss-20b

    Released August 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  62. 62
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

    Released August 1, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Video · Audio · Mathematics
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  63. 63
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-235B-A22B (Jul 2025)

    Released July 25, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  64. 64
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (Jul 2025)

    Released July 25, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  65. 65
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B

    Released July 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  66. 66
    Moonshot AI

    Kimi K2

    Released July 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  67. 67
    xAI

    Grok 4 Heavy

    Released July 10, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  68. 68
    xAI

    Grok 4

    Released July 9, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  69. 69
    ByteDance

    Seed-1.6-Thinking

    Released June 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  70. 70
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Pro (Jun 2025)

    Released June 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Video · Multimodal · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  71. 71
    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-R1 (May 2025)

    Released May 28, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  72. 72
    Anthropic

    Claude Opus 4

    Released May 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat · Language generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  73. 73
    Anthropic

    Claude Sonnet 4

    Released May 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat · Language generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  74. 74
    ByteDance

    Seed1.5-VL

    Released May 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Vision · Language · Multimodal · Video
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  75. 75
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Pro (May 2025)

    Released May 6, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Video · Multimodal · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  76. 76
    Alibaba

    Qwen3-235B-A22B

    Released April 29, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  77. 77
    Meta

    Llama 4 Behemoth (preview)

    Released April 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  78. 78
    Meta

    Llama 4 Maverick

    Released April 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  79. 79
    Meta

    Llama 4 Scout

    Released April 5, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  80. 80
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Mar 2025)

    Released March 27, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  81. 81
    Google

    Gemini 2.5 Pro (Mar 2025)

    Released March 25, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Video · Multimodal · Speech
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  82. 82
    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)

    Released March 24, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  83. 83
    OpenAI

    o1-pro

    Released March 19, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language · Mathematics · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  84. 84
    Baidu

    ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B (文心大模型4.5)

    Released March 16, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Video
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  85. 85
    Tencent

    Hunyuan-TurboS

    Released March 11, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  86. 86
    Mistral

    Mistral OCR

    Released March 6, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  87. 87
    Alibaba

    QwQ-32B

    Released March 6, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  88. 88
    OpenAI

    GPT-4.5

    Released February 27, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  89. 89
    Anthropic

    Claude 3.7 Sonnet

    Released February 24, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  90. 90
    xAI

    Grok 3

    Released February 17, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  91. 91
    OpenAI

    o3-mini

    Released January 31, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  92. 92
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Jan 2025)

    Released January 29, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  93. 93
    ByteDance

    Doubao-1.5-pro

    Released January 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  94. 94
    Moonshot AI

    Kimi k1.5

    Released January 22, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  95. 95
    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-R1

    Released January 20, 2025

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  96. 96
    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-V3

    Released December 24, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  97. 97
    OpenAI

    o3

    Released December 20, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  98. 98
    Google

    Gemini 2.0 Pro

    Released December 11, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision · Video · Audio
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  99. 99
    Meta

    Llama 3.3 70B

    Released December 6, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  100. 100
    OpenAI

    o1

    Released December 5, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language · Mathematics · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  101. 101
    Amazon

    Amazon Nova Pro

    Released December 3, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Video · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  102. 102
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Nov 2024)

    Released November 20, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  103. 103
    Mistral

    Pixtral Large

    Released November 18, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  104. 104
    Tencent

    Hunyuan-Large

    Released November 6, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  105. 105
    ByteDance

    Doubao-pro

    Released October 28, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  106. 106
    NVIDIA

    NVLM-D 72B

    Released October 22, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Vision · Language
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  107. 107
    NVIDIA

    NVLM-H 72B

    Released October 22, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Vision · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  108. 108
    NVIDIA

    NVLM-X 72B

    Released October 22, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Vision · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  109. 109
    01.AI

    Yi-Lightning

    Released October 18, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  110. 110
    Alibaba

    Qwen2.5 Instruct (72B)

    Released September 19, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  111. 111
    Alibaba

    Qwen2.5-72B

    Released September 19, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  112. 112
    Alibaba

    Qwen2.5-32B

    Released September 17, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  113. 113
    OpenAI

    o1-mini

    Released September 12, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  114. 114
    OpenAI

    o1-preview

    Released September 12, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language · Mathematics · Biology
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  115. 115
    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-V2.5

    Released September 6, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  116. 116
    Tencent

    Hunyuan Turbo

    Released September 5, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  117. 117
    xAI

    Grok-2

    Released August 13, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  118. 118
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o (Aug 2024)

    Released August 6, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  119. 119
    Mistral

    Mistral Large 2

    Released July 24, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  120. 120
    Meta

    Llama 3.1-405B

    Released July 23, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  121. 121
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o mini

    Released July 18, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Multimodal · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  122. 122
    Mistral

    Mathstral

    Released July 16, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Mathematics · Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  123. 123
    Baidu

    Ernie 4.0 Turbo

    Released June 28, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  124. 124
    Anthropic

    Claude 3.5 Sonnet

    Released June 20, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  125. 125
    NVIDIA

    Nemotron-4 340B

    Released June 14, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  126. 126
    Alibaba

    Qwen2-72B

    Released June 7, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  127. 127
    Z.ai

    GLM-4 (0520)

    Released May 20, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  128. 128
    OpenAI

    GPT-4o

    Released May 13, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Audio · Speech · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  129. 129
    01.AI

    Yi-Large

    Released May 13, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  130. 130
    Meta

    Llama 3-70B

    Released April 18, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  131. 131
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 Turbo (Apr 2024)

    Released April 9, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  132. 132
    Anthropic

    Claude 3 Opus

    Released March 4, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  133. 133
    Anthropic

    Claude 3 Sonnet

    Released March 4, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  134. 134
    Mistral

    Mistral Large

    Released February 26, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  135. 135
    Alibaba

    Qwen1.5-72B

    Released February 4, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  136. 136
    Alibaba

    Qwen-VL-Max

    Released January 25, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  137. 137
    Moonshot AI

    Kimi Explorer

    Released January 1, 2024

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  138. 138
    Google

    GQA-8-XXL

    Released December 23, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  139. 139
    Google

    Gemini Nano-1

    Released December 19, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Audio
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  140. 140
    Google

    Gemini Nano-2

    Released December 19, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision · Audio
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  141. 141
    Mistral

    Mixtral 8x7B

    Released December 11, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  142. 142
    Meta

    Llama Guard

    Released December 7, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  143. 143
    Google

    Gemini 1.0 Pro

    Released December 6, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  144. 144
    Google

    Gemini 1.0 Ultra

    Released December 6, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  145. 145
    Alibaba

    Qwen-72B

    Released November 30, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  146. 146
    Anthropic

    Claude 2.1

    Released November 21, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  147. 147
    NVIDIA

    Nemotron-3-8B

    Released November 15, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language generation · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  148. 148
    Alibaba

    Qwen-Audio-Chat

    Released November 14, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Language · Speech · Audio
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  149. 149
    Alibaba

    mPLUG-Owl2

    Released November 7, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Vision · Language · Multimodal
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  150. 150
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 Turbo (Nov 2023)

    Released November 6, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  151. 151
    xAI

    Grok-1

    Released November 4, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  152. 152
    01.AI

    Yi-34B

    Released November 2, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  153. 153
    Z.ai

    ChatGLM3-6B

    Released October 27, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  154. 154
    Baidu

    ERNIE 4.0

    Released October 17, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Video · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  155. 155
    Amazon

    Amazon Titan

    Released September 28, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language · Image generation
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  156. 156
    OpenAI

    GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

    Released September 28, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  157. 157
    Alibaba

    Qwen-VL

    Released August 24, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  158. 158
    Meta

    Llama 2-70B

    Released July 18, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (restricted use); open weights
    Model source
  159. 159
    Anthropic

    Claude 2

    Released July 11, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  160. 160
    Baidu

    ERNIE 3.5

    Released June 27, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  161. 161
    OpenAI

    GPT-3.5 Turbo

    Released June 13, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  162. 162
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 (Jun 2023)

    Released June 13, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  163. 163
    Google

    PaLM 2

    Released May 10, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  164. 164
    Meta

    ImageBind

    Released May 9, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Audio · Language · Image generation · Speech
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  165. 165
    OpenAI

    GPT-4 (Mar 2023)

    Released March 15, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  166. 166
    Anthropic

    Claude

    Released March 14, 2023

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  167. 167
    Meta

    Galactica

    Released November 16, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Biology
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  168. 168
    Google

    Flan-PaLM 540B

    Released October 20, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  169. 169
    Google

    U-PaLM (540B)

    Released October 20, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language generation · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  170. 170
    Google

    PaLI

    Released September 14, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Vision · Multimodal
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  171. 171
    Microsoft

    BEIT-3

    Released August 22, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Vision · Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  172. 172
    Google

    Minerva (540B)

    Released June 29, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  173. 173
    Microsoft

    MetaLM

    Released June 13, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  174. 174
    Google

    Gato

    Released May 12, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Robotics · Games · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  175. 175
    Google

    UL2

    Released May 10, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  176. 176
    Microsoft

    DeBERTaV3large + KEAR

    Released May 4, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  177. 177
    Meta

    OPT-175B

    Released May 2, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Chat · Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  178. 178
    OpenAI

    Statement Curriculum Learning

    Released March 2, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language · Mathematics
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  179. 179
    Microsoft

    DeepNet

    Released March 1, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  180. 180
    Google

    ST-MoE

    Released February 17, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  181. 181
    Google

    RETRO-7B

    Released February 7, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  182. 182
    OpenAI

    InstructGPT 1.3B

    Released January 27, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  183. 183
    OpenAI

    InstructGPT 175B

    Released January 27, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  184. 184
    OpenAI

    InstructGPT 6B

    Released January 27, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  185. 185
    Meta

    data2vec (language)

    Released January 20, 2022

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  186. 186
    Baidu

    ERNIE-ViLG

    Released December 31, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Image generation · Vision · Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  187. 187
    Meta

    XGLM-7.5B

    Released December 20, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  188. 188
    Google

    GLaM

    Released December 13, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  189. 189
    Microsoft

    Turing ULRv5

    Released September 28, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  190. 190
    Google

    FLAN 137B

    Released September 3, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  191. 191
    Meta

    XLMR-XXL

    Released August 17, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  192. 192
    Baidu

    ERNIE 3.0

    Released July 5, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  193. 193
    Microsoft

    DeBERTa

    Released June 10, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  194. 194
    Alibaba

    PLUG

    Released April 19, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Hosted access (no API); closed weights
    Model source
  195. 195
    Ai2

    Unicorn

    Released March 24, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  196. 196
    Meta

    Generative BST

    Released March 5, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  197. 197
    Alibaba

    M6-T

    Released March 5, 2021

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  198. 198
    Baidu

    ERNIE-Doc (247M)

    Released December 31, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  199. 199
    Google

    mT5-XXL

    Released October 20, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  200. 200
    Baidu

    ERNIE-GEN (large)

    Released August 6, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation · Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (non-commercial); open weights
    Model source
  201. 201
    OpenAI

    GPT-3 175B (davinci)

    Released May 28, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    API access; closed weights
    Model source
  202. 202
    Microsoft

    Turing-NLG

    Released February 13, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Language generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  203. 203
    Google

    Perceiver IO (optical flow)

    Released February 8, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Multimodal · Language · Vision
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  204. 204
    Google

    Meena

    Released January 28, 2020

    Matching evidence
    Chat
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  205. 205
    Meta

    BART-large

    Released October 29, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  206. 206
    Google

    T5-11B

    Released October 23, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  207. 207
    NVIDIA

    Megatron-BERT

    Released September 17, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  208. 208
    NVIDIA

    Megatron-LM (1.2B)

    Released September 17, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  209. 209
    NVIDIA

    Megatron-LM (8.3B)

    Released September 17, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  210. 210
    Amazon

    BERT-Large-CAS (PTB+WT2+WT103)

    Released April 20, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  211. 211
    OpenAI

    GPT-2 (1.5B)

    Released February 14, 2019

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Open weights (unrestricted); open weights
    Model source
  212. 212
    Google

    Mesh-TensorFlow Transformer 2.9B (translation)

    Released November 5, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    Model source
  213. 213
    Google

    Mesh-TensorFlow Transformer 4.9B (language)

    Released November 5, 2018

    Matching evidence
    Language modeling/generation
    Domain
    Language
    Access
    Unreleased; closed weights
    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

What are you producing?

Separate long-form editorial, campaign concepts, conversion copy, and conversational support. A general language label does not establish strength in each format.

02

How will you protect the brand?

Test tone, claim discipline, required disclosures, and revision behavior against an approved brief and real examples.

03

What must you verify?

Review every factual claim, citation, offer detail, and legal requirement. The catalog does not measure accuracy, persuasion, price, latency, or reliability.

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.