AI models

A directory of AI models

Landmark models in every category — who makes them, when they appeared, what they are for, and which ones you can run yourself.

01 / Large language models

Chat, writing, reasoning and analysis.

OpenAI · 2024

GPT-4o

A multimodal model that works with text, images and audio.

Cloud service
Anthropic · 2023

Claude

A family of assistants in several sizes, with long context windows.

Cloud service
Google DeepMind · 2023

Gemini

Google's multimodal family, from large models to on-device Nano.

Cloud service
Meta · 2023

Llama

Open-weight models in many sizes; Llama 3 arrived in 2024.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Mistral AI · 2023

Mistral and Mixtral

Efficient open-weight models, including mixture-of-experts designs.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Alibaba Cloud · 2023

Qwen

Open models from 0.5 to over 70 billion parameters, strong in many languages.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
DeepSeek · 2023

DeepSeek

Open models including DeepSeek-V3 and the reasoning model R1.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Microsoft · 2023

Phi

Small language models designed to run on modest hardware.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
02 / Image and vision

Creating images, and understanding them.

OpenAI · 2023

DALL-E 3

Text-to-image generation that follows detailed prompts.

Cloud service
Midjourney · 2022

Midjourney

An artistic image generator used through its own service.

Cloud service
Stability AI · 2022

Stable Diffusion / SDXL

Open text-to-image models that run on your own GPU.

Open weights
Black Forest Labs · 2024

FLUX.1

High-quality image generation; some versions are open.

Open weights
OpenAI · 2021

CLIP

Connects images and text; used inside many other systems.

Open weights
Salesforce / Microsoft · 2022 / 2024

BLIP and Florence-2

Describe images and answer questions about them.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Alibaba Cloud · 2023

Qwen-VL

A vision-language model for image understanding.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Meta · 2024

SAM 2

Segments any object in images and video.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
03 / Code

Writing, completing and explaining code.

OpenAI · 2021

Codex

The model behind the first GitHub Copilot.

Cloud service
BigCode (Hugging Face, ServiceNow) · 2023

StarCoder

An open code model trained on permissively licensed code.

Open weights
Meta · 2023

Code Llama

Llama specialised for programming.

Open weights
DeepSeek · 2023

DeepSeek Coder

Open code models in several sizes.

Open weights
Alibaba Cloud · 2024

Qwen2.5-Coder

Open code models for completion, generation and debugging.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
04 / Audio and speech

Transcription, voices and music.

OpenAI · 2022

Whisper

Open speech recognition and translation in many languages.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Coqui · 2023

XTTS

Text-to-speech with voice cloning from a short sample.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Meta · 2023

MMS

Speech recognition and synthesis for over a thousand languages.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Suno · 2023

Bark

Generates speech, music and sound effects from text.

Open weights
ElevenLabs · 2022

ElevenLabs

A cloud service for natural voices and dubbing.

Cloud service
Suno · 2023

Suno

Creates complete songs from a text description.

Cloud service
Meta · 2023

MusicGen

Open music generation from text.

Open weights
05 / Video

Text-to-video and video editing.

OpenAI · 2024

Sora

Generates video clips from text.

Cloud service
Runway · 2024

Runway Gen-3

Video generation and editing tools for creators.

Cloud service
Google DeepMind · 2024

Veo

Google's text-to-video model.

Cloud service
Kuaishou · 2024

Kling

Text- and image-to-video generation.

Cloud service
Pika Labs · 2023

Pika

A video generation service for short clips.

Cloud service
06 / Open models to run yourself

Download once, run privately on your own hardware.

Meta · 2023

Llama

The best-known open-weight family.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Mistral AI · 2023

Mistral

Efficient models under permissive licences.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Microsoft · 2023

Phi

Small models for laptops and edge devices.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Alibaba Cloud · 2023

Qwen

A wide range of sizes, plus code, maths and vision versions.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab
Google · 2024

Gemma

Lightweight open models from Google.

Open weights
Meta · 2022

NLLB-200

Translation between 200 languages.

Open weightsIn ZIBADIS AI Lab

The year is when each model or family first appeared; most families have had newer versions since. "Open weights" means the model can be downloaded and run on your own hardware; "Cloud service" means it is used through the maker's own service. To choose between models for your own work, see how to compare models.