Best LLM AI Models

57 models tracked · 60 recent news stories

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Most-talked-about LLM right now

Ranked by mentions across 30+ AI sources in August 2026.

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AlphaProof

Google DeepMind's mathematical-reasoning model that formally proves theorems; the AlphaProof Nexus version tackles Erdős problems.

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic's Mythos-class multimodal Claude model (text, vision, code) made safe for general use — strong at software engineering, knowledge work, long-context reasoning, scientific research and protein design, with safeguards that fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 for sensitive domains. Available via the Claude API and claude.ai. Priced at $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens.

Claude Mythos 5

The same underlying multimodal Claude model as Fable 5, but with safeguards lifted in some domains (e.g. cybersecurity, biology), offered to vetted users through Anthropic's Project Glasswing trusted-access program. Text, vision and code. Priced at $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens.

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DeepSeek
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DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek V4 — DeepSeek's frontier model with a million-token context window built for long-running agentic workloads.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek-V4-Flash — the fast, low-cost tier of DeepSeek's V4 family, released at $0.28 per million tokens and upgraded (0731) with stronger agentic and coding performance.

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DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek-V4-Pro — the flagship tier of DeepSeek's trillion-scale V4 family, a MoE model aimed at frontier reasoning, coding and agentic workloads above the cheaper V4 Flash tier.

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Doubao
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Ernie
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Falcon
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GLM

The GLM (General Language Model) family from Zhipu AI / Z.ai — open-weight Chinese LLMs (GLM-4.5/4.6/5/5.1/5.2 plus GLM-OCR, Air, Flash and Turbo variants) known for strong coding and long-context performance under permissive (MIT) licenses.

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GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 — Zhipu AI's flagship GLM model tuned for long-horizon, multi-step agentic tasks.

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GPT-4o
GPT-5.4

Most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.

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GPT-5.5

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 — the default ChatGPT model (Instant), with Pro and Thinking variants for paid plans. Lower hallucination in law, medicine and finance, and stronger STEM reasoning. A GPT-5.5-Cyber variant targets cybersecurity.

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GPT-5.6

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family (previewed 2026) — tiered Sol, Terra and Luna models with new reasoning modes; reportedly beats Anthropic's Mythos 5. Initial rollout was limited at US government request.

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GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna — the low-cost, high-throughput tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, whose price cuts drove the 2026 inference price war.

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GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol — the flagship tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, positioned as its highest-capability reasoning model and benchmarked against Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5.

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GPT-5.6 Terra

GPT-5.6 Terra — the mid tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, sitting between Luna and Sol on price and capability, generally available via the OpenAI API and Amazon Bedrock.

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Gamma
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Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's fast, low-cost Gemini tier released in August 2026, aimed at coding and agentic workloads at $0.75 per million input tokens — arriving three weeks after the previous Flash release.

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Gemini Flash 3.5

Google's fast, cost-efficient Gemini model tier, announced at Google I/O 2026.

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Gemma 4 12B

Google's 12-billion-parameter open model in the Gemma 4 family — a compact, efficient multimodal LLM designed to run on a single GPU.

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GenCast
Grok

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X

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Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 — xAI's frontier large language model, the successor to Grok 4, with stronger reasoning, coding and real-time knowledge via X integration.

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Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 — xAI's frontier large language model and successor to Grok 4.5, a 500K-context model tuned for long-running agents, coding and real-time knowledge via X integration.

Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 is our fastest, most cost-efficient model, matching Sonnet 4’s performance on coding, computer use, and agent tasks.

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IBM Granite

Granite is IBM's family of open, Apache 2.0 licensed language, vision and embedding models aimed at enterprise workloads.

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Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI's flagship 1T-parameter open-weight LLM featuring 262K context window, long-horizon coding with up to 300 sub-agent swarms and 4,000 coordinated steps. Outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro (58.6). Supports multimodal input including vision.

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Kimi K3

Kimi K3 — Moonshot AI's next-generation Kimi model, reported to close the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and shipped as one of the largest open-source frontier models.

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Llama
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LongCat-2.0

Meituan's 1.6-trillion-parameter open-source agentic coding model with a 1M-token context window (June 2026). The first trillion-parameter model claimed to be fully pre-trained AND served on domestic Chinese AI chips.

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MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3 — MiniMax's long-context reasoning and agentic model, positioned for open-weight deployment on accelerated infrastructure.

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Mistral Large
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Muse Glimmer

Meta's Muse Glimmer — a 30B open-weights, multimodal agentic model built for always-on local agent workflows, small enough to run on a single consumer GPU.

Muse Spark

Meta open-source AI video generation model for creating short video clips from text and image prompts.

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Muse Spark 1.2

Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 — the August 2026 update to Meta's paid Muse Spark foundation model, powering the Muse Code terminal agent with higher coding and Terminal-Bench scores at a low per-task price.

Mythos

By far the most powerful AI model Anthropic ever developed.

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Nemotron
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Nemotron 3 Nano

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano — the compact, efficiency-focused tier of the Nemotron 3 open model family, including the Nano Omni multimodal variant for long-context document, audio and video agents.

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Nemotron 3 Ultra

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra — the largest, highest-capability model in the Nemotron 3 open model family, tuned for advanced reasoning, agentic workflows and enterprise AI.

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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning — the speed-optimized tier of the Nemotron 3.5 open model family, built for fast, accurate specialized task execution in long-running agentic workflows.

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Nemotron 4

NVIDIA's Nemotron 4 — the next major generation of the Nemotron open model family, following the Nemotron 3 and Nemotron 3.5 releases, aimed at reasoning-heavy and agentic enterprise AI workloads.

Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is state-of-the-art across a wide range of coding and agentic capabilities.

Opus 4.7

Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.

Opus 4.8

Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.8 — the successor to Opus 4.7 with further improvements in advanced reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

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Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 — Anthropic's most capable model in the Claude 5 family, the frontier successor to Opus 4.8 for the hardest reasoning, coding and agentic work.

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Phi
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Qwen
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Qwen 3.7

Alibaba Cloud's latest Qwen 3-series flagship LLM, the successor to Qwen 3.6 with improved reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

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Qwen 3.8

Alibaba Cloud's latest Qwen 3-series flagship LLM, the successor to Qwen 3.7 with improved reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

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Sakana Fugu

Sakana AI model that coordinates and orchestrates multiple models, matching frontier models on some benchmarks.

Sonnet 4.6

Hybrid reasoning model with superior intelligence for agents, featuring a 1M context window

Sonnet 4.8

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.8, launched alongside Opus 4.8 — brings Opus-class quality into the mid tier with the new Dynamic Workflows tool and improved vision workflows.

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Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 — Anthropic's balanced mid-tier model in the Claude 5 family, pairing strong reasoning and coding with fast, cost-efficient responses.

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Watermelon

Watermelon — the codename for Meta's upcoming frontier AI model, reported to match OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks. Meta's bid to reclaim ground in the frontier LLM race under Alexandr Wang's superintelligence group.

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