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Seed 2.1 (Doubao)

ByteDance's flagship Seed 2.1: Pro for deep-thinking agent work, Turbo for scale, plus the weekly-updated Doubao-Seed-Evolving. Closed weights.

Nemotron 3 Ultra

NVIDIA's open Nemotron line: the 550B/55B-active Nemotron 3 Ultra flagship and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B/3B-active agent-execution model, both OpenMDW.

MiniMax-M3

MiniMax's multimodal flagship, released June 1, 2026. A 428B-parameter MoE with ~23B active, a 1M-token context, and open weights under a community license.

Step-3.7-Flash

StepFun's open-weight vision-language flagship, released May 29, 2026. A 198B MoE activating ~11B per token, served over 400 tokens/second under Apache 2.0.

Command A+

Cohere's first Mixture-of-Experts model, released May 2026. 218B total / 25B active parameters, vision input, reasoning, and agentic tool use under Apache 2.0.

Composer 2.5

Cursor's in-house agentic coding model, released May 18, 2026. Built by post-training Moonshot's Kimi K2.5, delivering frontier-adjacent coding at low cost.

ERNIE 5.1

Baidu's closed-weight flagship, released May 9, 2026. A sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with a 128K context — the first ERNIE whose weights stay unpublished.

HiDream-O1-Image

HiDream.ai's 8B pixel-level unified transformer, open-sourced under MIT on May 8, 2026. No VAE, no separate text encoder, and generates up to 2,048x2,048.

Ling-2.6-1T

Ant Group's open-weight, non-thinking flagship: ~1T parameters with 63B active, a hybrid MLA and Linear Attention stack, a 1M-token context, and an MIT license.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI's multimodal model for agentic and coding work: a dense 128B model with a 256K context window, released April 2026 under a modified MIT license.