Language models

The leading language models (LLMs)

The engines that power everything else. Worth knowing which one sits behind a tool: it decides the quality and where your data is processed.

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Platforms and APIs · Language models

Enterprise language-model platform focused on security and data privacy, with a pay-per-use API.

Cloud or self-hostedPaid

Language models

Family of open-source Chinese language models, known for training and inference costs far lower than comparable Western models.

Free version, then paidOpen source

Platforms and APIs · Language models

Very low-latency AI inference platform, built on proprietary LPU chips, billed per token used.

Free version, then paid

Platforms and APIs · Language models

The public repository of AI models: you can find, test and host almost everything that exists there.

Data in the United StatesFree version, then paid·from $9/month

Language models

Family of open source language models developed by Alibaba, available in several sizes and offered as chat, code and image tools.

Price not verifiedOpen source

Platforms and APIs · Language models

Inference and fine-tuning cloud for open source AI models, billed by usage.

Paid

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