Large Language Models

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  1. 1Neural NetworkReview a foundational model family
  2. 2Large Language ModelUnderstand language model capabilities and limits
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01.AI

01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物, Língyi Wànwù) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by Kai-Fu Lee that developed the Yi family of large language models.

AI CompaniesOpen Source AI

AI Pricing

AI pricing refers to the cost structures and economic models used by providers of artificial intelligence services, particularly large language model (LLM) APIs.

Artificial Intelligence

AI21 Labs

AI21 Labs is an Israeli artificial intelligence company, founded in 2017 by Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, and Amnon Shashua, that develops large language models (LLMs) and AI orchestration systems for enterprise…

AI CompaniesNatural Language Processing

Activation steering

Activation steering is a family of inference-time techniques in mechanistic interpretability and AI safety that modify a neural network's internal activations to influence its behavior, without retraining the…

AI SafetyInterpretability

Adept AI

Adept AI (also known as Adept AI Labs) is an American artificial intelligence company, founded on January 5, 2022 in San Francisco, that pioneered "action models": AI agents trained to operate existing…

AI AgentsAI Companies

AdvBench

AdvBench (Adversarial Behavior Benchmark) is a red-teaming benchmark dataset for measuring how easily an aligned large language model can be pushed into producing harmful or objectionable content

AI BenchmarksAI Safety

AgentBench

AgentBench is a multi-dimensional benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) as autonomous agents across eight distinct interactive environments

AI AgentsAI Benchmarks

Agentic workflow

An agentic workflow is a multi-step process in which one or more AI agents independently plan a sequence of actions, select and use tools, evaluate intermediate results, and iterate until a goal is reached.

AI AgentsArtificial Intelligence

Aleph Alpha

Aleph Alpha is a German artificial intelligence company, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, that builds sovereign AI software for European enterprises and governments.

AI Companies

Amazon Nova Act

Amazon Nova Act is an agentic AI model and developer software development kit (SDK) from Amazon for building AI agents that reliably perform multi-step actions inside a web browser.

AI Models

Anthropic

Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) safety and research company founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other former OpenAI researchers, best known for the Claude family of large…

AI CompaniesAI Safety

Anthropic API

The Anthropic API is the developer interface for Anthropic's Claude family of large language models, a Messages-based HTTP service hosted at for building conversational AI applications, AI agents, and…

AI Tools & ProductsAnthropic

Apertus

Apertus is a fully open, multilingual large language model developed in Switzerland and released on September 2, 2025, by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) under the Swiss…

AI ModelsOpen Source AI

Apple Foundation Models

Apple Foundation Models (AFM) are the family of large language models Apple built to power Apple Intelligence, the company's generative AI system introduced at WWDC 2024 in June 2024.

AI CompaniesAI Models

Aquila (language model)

Aquila (Chinese: 悟道·天鹰, Wudao Tianying) is a series of open bilingual (Chinese and English) large language models developed by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).

Chinese AIOpen Source AI

Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis is an independent benchmarking and analytics platform that evaluates artificial intelligence models and API providers across intelligence, speed, price, and latency, and it is best known…

AI BenchmarksDeveloper Tools

Auto-CoT

Auto-CoT (Automatic Chain of Thought) is an automated prompting method that builds few-shot Chain-of-Thought demonstrations for large language models without any human-written exemplars, introduced by…

Prompt Engineering

Autoregressive Model

An autoregressive model predicts each element of a sequence from the elements that precede it, feeding its own earlier outputs back in as context for every later prediction.

Machine Learning

Aya (Expanse / Vision)

Aya is an open multilingual model family and global research initiative from Cohere Labs (formerly Cohere For AI, or C4AI), the nonprofit research arm of the Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere.

AI ModelsOpen Source AI

BERT

BERT, short for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a pretrained language model introduced by researchers at Google Research in 2018.

Transformer Models

BIG-Bench

BIG-Bench (Beyond the Imitation Game Benchmark) is a large-scale, collaborative benchmark of 204 tasks, contributed by 450 authors across 132 institutions, built to measure and extrapolate the capabilities of…

AI BenchmarksMachine Learning

BLOOM (language model)

BLOOM (BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model) is a 176-billion-parameter open-access large language model released on July 12, 2022, and was the first language model with more…

Artificial Intelligence

Backdoor attacks on large language models

A backdoor attack on a large language model (LLM) is an adversarial training-time attack in which an attacker manipulates training data, fine-tuning data, preference labels, or model weights so that the…

AI Safety

Baichuan Intelligence

Baichuan Intelligence (Chinese: 百川智能; pinyin: Bǎchuān Zhìnéng) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company, founded in Beijing on April 10, 2023, by former Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan, that builds large language…

AI CompaniesChinese AI

Baidu ERNIE

Baidu ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration) is the family of large language and multimodal foundation models built by the Chinese technology company Baidu, spanning the original 2019…

Chinese AIMultimodal AI

Bard

Bard was the conversational AI chatbot developed by Google, launched as an experimental service on February 6, 2023, opened to a public waitlist on March 21, 2023, and rebranded to Gemini on February 8, 2024.

AI HistoryConversational AI

Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard

The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) is the standard benchmark for measuring how accurately large language models (LLMs) invoke functions, APIs, and tools, created by the Gorilla project at UC…

AI Benchmarks

Best Open-Source LLMs

As of July 2026, the strongest open-weight large language model overall is GLM-5.2 from Z.ai (Zhipu AI), which tops the Artificial Analysis open-weight Intelligence Index at 51 and leads all open models on…

AI ModelsOpen Source AI

BigBang-v1

BigBang-V1 is an open-weights large language model released on August 2, 2026 by The Endless Frontier, a Shanghai-based research team drawn from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Artificial…

AI ModelsChinese AI

BioBERT

BioBERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers for Biomedical Text Mining) is a domain-specific language model that adapts BERT to biomedicine by continuing its pre-training on large…

Healthcare AITransformer Models

BioGPT

BioGPT is a domain-specific generative pre-trained Transformer language model for biomedical text generation and mining, developed by Microsoft Research.

Healthcare AIMicrosoft

BitNet

BitNet is a family of large language model architectures developed by Microsoft Research Asia that constrain the weights of a transformer to extremely low bit-widths: initially a single bit ({-1, +1}) and…

MicrosoftModel Architecture

BitNet b1.58

BitNet b1.58 is a ternary-weight large language model architecture from Microsoft Research in which every weight is constrained to one of three values, -1, 0, or +1

MicrosoftModel Architecture

Browser-use agent

A Browser-use agent is an artificial intelligence software agent that operates a standard web browser through its normal user interface, clicking, typing, scrolling, and navigating

AI AgentsAI Tools & Products

ByteDance AI

ByteDance AI refers to the artificial intelligence research, products, and infrastructure developed by ByteDance, the Chinese technology company best known as the parent of TikTok.

AI CompaniesChinese AI

CamemBERT

CamemBERT is a French monolingual language model based on the RoBERTa architecture, released in late 2019 by researchers at Inria, Facebook AI Research, and Sorbonne Université.

Natural Language Processing

Chain of Verification (CoVe)

Chain of Verification (CoVe) is a prompting technique that reduces factual hallucinations in large language models by having the model fact-check its own draft response through a structured four-step…

Prompt Engineering

ChatGLM

ChatGLM is a series of open, bilingual (Chinese and English) conversational large language models developed by Zhipu AI together with the Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG) lab at Tsinghua University.

Chinese AIConversational AI

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and built on the company's GPT series of large language models.

ChatGPTGenerative AI