Reasoning

Beluga

Stability AI's 2023 Llama fine-tunes — non-commercial, abandoned

DeepSeek

China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a fraction of rivals' cost

DeepSeek Chat

Frontier-tier chat from DeepSeek, free at the consumer tier

Orca

Microsoft Research's reasoning-tuned small models — research-only

Phi

Open, efficient small language models from Microsoft Research.

2023 leaderboard-topper trained on just 25k curated STEM examples

SenseNova 商汤日日新 (SenseTime)

SenseTime's MoE multimodal models, from cloud API to edge boxes

StepFun Yuewen 阶跃星辰 跃问

StepFun's multimodal chat app, backed by a $717M round and IPO plans