AI models

• Model · Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Nova models (AWS)

  Amazon Nova is AWS's own model family. The current Nova 2 line includes Nova 2 Lite for text, image, video and document input, Nova 2 Sonic for speech, and a multimodal embeddings model, all used through Amazon Bedrock. AWS also sells Nova Act for browser agents and Nova Forge for building custom models.

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• Model · AnthropicClaude (Anthropic)

  Claude is Anthropic's family of large language models. The current lineup runs from Haiku (fastest, lowest cost) through Sonnet and Opus to Fable (slowest, for the hardest reasoning). All current models take text and images in, return text, use tools, and have a 1M-token context window.

  Verified Oct 17, 2026 · SOPs, Research, Data
• Model · CohereCohere models (Command, Embed, Rerank)

  Cohere builds models for enterprise retrieval and generation: the Command family for chat and agents, Embed and Rerank for search, plus parsing, transcription and multilingual models. It is available on its own platform and through major clouds, which matters if procurement wants AI inside an existing cloud contract.

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• Model · DeepSeekDeepSeek models

  DeepSeek offers two API models: deepseek-flash for low-cost volume work and deepseek-v4-pro for harder tasks. Both have a 1M-token context window, thinking and non-thinking modes, JSON output and tool calls, and off-peak use is half price. DeepSeek's privacy policy says personal data is stored in China, so review it before you send anything sensitive.

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• Model · GoogleGemini models (Google)

  Gemini is Google's model family, available through the Gemini app, Google Workspace and the Gemini API. Google's current flagship reasoning model is Gemini 4 Argon, with a 1M-token context window. The Flash line covers fast everyday and agentic work. Sister models handle images (Nano Banana), video (Veo), music (Lyria) and embeddings.

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• Model · OpenAIGPT models (OpenAI)

  OpenAI's GPT models power ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. OpenAI currently points to GPT-6 Astra for complex reasoning and coding, GPT-6.1 Sol to balance capability and cost, and GPT-6 Luna for high-volume work. All three list a 1.05M-token context window and built-in web search, file search and computer-use tools.

  Verified Oct 17, 2026 · Content, SOPs, Research
• Model · xAIGrok models (xAI)

  Grok is xAI's model family, used in the Grok app and the xAI API. xAI currently recommends Grok 4.7 for both code and chat. It has a 500K-token context window and a May 2026 knowledge cutoff, and it reaches real-time information only when web or X search tools are switched on.

  Verified Oct 16, 2026 · Research, Content
• Model · Mistral AIMistral models (Mistral AI)

  Mistral AI publishes both open-weight and commercial models. The current lineup spans frontier multimodal models (Mistral Large 4 and Medium 3.5), small Apache 2.0 models (Mistral Small 4, Ministral 3), and specialists for code, OCR, speech, embeddings and moderation. Pick it when you need weights you can host yourself or a European vendor.

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• Model · MetaMuse models (Meta)

  Meta's developer site, llama.com, now leads with the Muse model family. Muse Wonder targets coding, long-running agents and computer use. Muse Spark is a cheaper agentic model, and Muse Spark Open is an 816B open-weight model under the Muse Model License. Hosted models are served through the Meta Model API, OpenRouter and Muse Code.

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• Model · PerplexityPerplexity Sonar and Agent API

  Perplexity's Agent API gives developers one interface to models from several providers, plus Perplexity's own search-grounded Sonar model. Perplexity ended support for the older Sonar Chat Completions API on September 27, 2026, and points users to Agent API presets instead. Sonar is listed at $0.25 input and $2.50 output per million tokens.

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• Model · MicrosoftPhi models (Microsoft)

  Phi is Microsoft's family of small language models, released under the MIT License. The newest on Hugging Face include Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B text-and-image model. Phi models run on Azure AI Foundry, Hugging Face and Ollama, and can be fine-tuned. They suit on-device or low-cost tasks where a frontier model is unnecessary.

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• Model · Alibaba (Qwen team)Qwen models (Alibaba)

  Qwen is a model family from Alibaba's Qwen team. Some models are released with open weights on Hugging Face, such as Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. Hosted models, including Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-Flash, are served through Qwen Cloud, which the Qwen team calls its official API. Review data terms before business use.

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