Models & Products
Every major AI model, company, and product explained.
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GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, and it's the family of AI models OpenAI builds — the same family that powers Ch…
Llama is Meta's family of large language models, and its defining trait is that Meta publishes the actual model weights for free d…
An open-source LLM is one where the company publishes the trained model's actual parameters — the "weights" — so anyone can downlo…
An SLM, or small language model, is a language model built with far fewer parameters than a frontier LLM — think millions up to a…
A multimodal LLM is an AI model that can understand or create more than just text — usually images, and increasingly audio and vid…
A model's parameter count is the number of internal "knobs" — the numerical weights — it adjusted while training on data, and no,…
Claude is Anthropic's family of AI chatbot models, the same category as ChatGPT or Gemini, but built by a company whose whole reas…
Gemini is Google's family of large language models, built by Google DeepMind, and it can read and generate text, images, audio, an…
Mistral AI's flagship LLM is Mistral Large 3, a large, open-weight model you can download and run yourself, alongside smaller mode…
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that builds open-weight large language models, and it made global headlines in January 2025 when…
A reasoning model is an LLM built to think before it answers, generating a chain of internal reasoning steps first and then using…
A frontier model is one of the handful of most advanced AI models being trained at any given time — the ones pushing right up agai…