Multilingual
BLOOM
BigScience's 2022 open multilingual model, still downloadable, now a research artefact
CodeGeeX
Zhipu AI's free coding plugin, now overshadowed by its GLM Coding Plan
Maya (Maya Research)
Open-weight expressive voice AI from India — Maya-1 in English, hosted Maya 2 in eleven Indian languages.
MiniMax Audio
MiniMax's speech studio and API: 40-language TTS, voice cloning and music
Murf AI
Studio-quality AI voice generation for video, e-learning, podcasts
Qwen
Alibaba Cloud's LLM family, open weights through to the Qwen3.8-Max flagship
Rytr
Low-cost AI writing assistant for short-form copy
Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
SEA-LION
AI Singapore's open-weight LLMs tuned for Southeast Asian languages
Speechify Studio
Browser studio for AI voiceover, dubbing and avatar video
Speechmatics
Speech-to-text API pitched at accents, noise and mixed-language audio
Whisper API
OpenAI's open speech-to-text model; the hosted API retires in 2027
