Tool tag: Multimodal

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.

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.

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.

DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek's open-weight V4 family: V4-Pro (1.6T/49B), V4-Flash (284B/13B) and the experimental V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. MIT weights, 1M context.

Gemma 4

Google's open-weight Gemma 4 family — Apache 2.0 models from a 2.3B-effective edge model to a 30.7B dense flagship, with QAT builds for local deployment.

Seedream 5.0

ByteDance's unified multimodal image model. Seedream 5.0 Lite (Feb 13, 2026) added deep thinking and web search grounding; a Pro tier followed in June 2026.

Sora 2 (Discontinued)

OpenAI is retiring Sora: the apps closed April 26, 2026 and the API shuts down September 24, 2026, with no OpenAI successor.

Llama 4

The last release in Meta's Llama line: Scout and Maverick, natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts models with 17B active and up to a 10M token context.

Google Gemini

Google's flagship AI assistant. Runs the Gemini 3 family with a 1M-token multimodal context, Project Astra real-time vision, and Workspace integration.