Reasoning model releases

Moonshot's open coding-focused agentic model built on K2.6, with native vision/video input, forced thinking mode, and stronger long-horizon software-engineering performance.

Z.ai's latest open flagship for long-horizon coding, agentic engineering, and million-token workflows, adding IndexShare sparse-attention reuse over GLM-5.1.

Native multimodal MiniMax model with a one-million-token context, sparse attention, and agentic coding/cowork positioning.

OpenAI's mid-2026 flagship, headlined by an industry-leading 1.5M-token context window and long-horizon agentic tool use.

The public, guardrailed sibling of Mythos and Anthropic's most capable widely-released model, built for long-horizon agentic work. Launched June 9, 2026 across the Claude API, AWS, and Microsoft Foundry — then pulled three days later under a US government export-control directive barring access by foreign nationals.

NVIDIA's largest Nemotron 3 open-weight hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE, tuned for agentic reasoning, coding, planning, and tool calling.

Anthropic's most capable model, with strengthened agentic and long-running task performance.

Open-weight agentic model from MiniMax focused on real-world software engineering, office tasks, tool use, and self-improving training workflows.

Announced at Google I/O 2026; emphasizes deep multimodal reasoning over a 2M-token context.

Dense 27B that punches far above its weight on agentic coding — easy to self-host on a single GPU node.

xAI's agentic flagship with a 1M-token context and aggressive API pricing.

Tencent Hunyuan open-weight fine-grained MoE model with 80B total parameters and 13B active parameters, optimized for agentic tool use.

Z.ai agentic-engineering follow-up to GLM-5, with stronger coding performance and better long-horizon tool-use behavior.

Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 advanced-reasoning open model for personal computers, part of the April 2026 Gemma 4 family.

Moonshot's open native multimodal agentic model for long-horizon coding, visual interface generation, and autonomous tool orchestration.

StepFun's Apache-licensed sparse MoE model for fast agentic execution, coding, math, browsing, and tool-use workflows.

Apache-licensed Indian-context MoE from Sarvam AI, optimized for reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and 22 Indian languages.

Workhorse GPT-5 release with a dedicated Thinking mode; widely deployed across ChatGPT and the API.

Z.ai flagship for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks, scaling the GLM line to 744B total / 40B active parameters.

Open multimodal Kimi model that adds native visual agentic intelligence, instant and thinking modes, and agent-swarm workflows on top of the K2 base.

Coding-focused GLM release with improved multilingual agentic coding, terminal tasks, tool use, and interface generation.

Ai2's fully open thinking model with public weights, code, data, checkpoints, and training details across the OLMo 3 pipeline.

Efficient Nemotron 3 MoE checkpoint for agentic reasoning and coding, activating about 3B parameters while supporting 1M-token contexts.

Mistral's largest open-weight MoE, aimed at frontier reasoning while remaining self-hostable.

Reasoning-first agent model that adds DeepSeek Sparse Attention and thinking directly inside tool-use workflows.

High-compute reasoning variant of V3.2, positioned for olympiad-level math, programming, and other deep reasoning tasks.

Open K2 reasoning-agent variant that interleaves step-by-step thinking with tool calls and supports stable 200-300 step tool-use trajectories.

Agentic reasoning and coding upgrade over GLM-4.5, expanding the text context window from 128K to 200K tokens.

September 2025 K2 update with stronger agentic coding, better frontend generation, and a doubled 256K context window.

Hybrid thinking/non-thinking release that upgraded tool calling, long-context training, and agent task performance.

ByteDance Seed's Apache-licensed long-context reasoning and agent model, with controllable thinking budgets and a native 512K context.

Smaller gpt-oss reasoning model optimized for local inference on systems with about 16GB of memory.

OpenAI's larger open-weight reasoning model, a 117B-total / 5.1B-active MoE with 128K context for local and self-hosted deployment.

Open agentic, reasoning, and coding foundation model that marked Z.ai international rebrand and MIT-licensed GLM push.

Compact GLM-4.5 companion with 106B total / 12B active parameters for efficient agentic reasoning and coding.

LG AI Research's unified model with non-reasoning and reasoning modes, agentic tool use, and English, Korean, and Spanish support.

Original open K2 post-trained model: a 1T-parameter MoE optimized for coding, reasoning, and tool-using agentic workflows.

Hugging Face's fully open 3B multilingual long-context model with optional reasoning mode and 128K context.

Baidu's largest ERNIE 4.5 vision-language MoE, supporting text, image, and video inputs with thinking and non-thinking modes.

Updated MIT-licensed Kimi-VL reasoning model with better multimodal reasoning, video understanding, high-resolution perception, and lower thinking-token use.

Open Apache-licensed hybrid-attention reasoning model with 456B total / 45.9B active parameters and a native 1M-token context.

Mistral's first dedicated reasoning model family, released in Small open-weight and Medium enterprise/API tiers.

Open-weight 24B reasoning model from Mistral's Magistral family, popular for local reasoning experiments.

Major R1 reasoning update with stronger math, programming, general logic, function calling, and reduced hallucinations.

First Claude 4 Opus model, positioned for long-running agentic and coding work before the 4.x point releases.

ByteDance Seed reasoning model focused on long-horizon thinking and problem solving.

Sarvam's medium-scale open model for multilingual Indian-language chat, reasoning, and translation tasks.

Phi-4 reasoning-specialized model family for math, science, and chain-of-thought style tasks.

Largest open Qwen3 MoE, introducing hybrid thinking/non-thinking modes and 119-language coverage.

Reasoning model released alongside o4-mini with tool use, image reasoning, and stronger agentic problem solving.

Open Llama Nemotron reasoning model from NVIDIA's 2025 Nemotron family.

Post-R1 V3 update with improved reasoning, front-end coding, Chinese writing, search, and function calling.

Reasoning-focused Gemini 2.5 model that made thinking a core part of Google's flagship model line.

Baidu's reasoning model released alongside ERNIE 4.5 before the open ERNIE 4.5 weights.

Granite 3.2 update with reasoning controls and multimodal/document-oriented Granite variants.

Anthropic's first hybrid-reasoning Sonnet. Shut down May 11, 2026 as the 4.x line matured.

Nous reasoning-oriented Hermes model trained to combine concise answers with optional deep reasoning traces.

xAI's third-generation model family, introduced with stronger reasoning, search, and coding modes.

Popular local assistant model tuned for coding, math, function calling, and agentic workflows.

Vision-language Qwen2.5 model for image, document, video, and agentic visual grounding tasks.

Doubao 1.5 Pro update positioned for stronger multimodal, reasoning, and agentic work in Volcano Engine.

Breakout open reasoning model trained with large-scale reinforcement learning and released with weights under MIT.

Moonshot's multimodal reinforcement-learning reasoning model, reported as matching OpenAI o1 on math, coding, and multimodal reasoning.

Second-generation StepFun foundation model line with larger-scale multimodal and reasoning ambitions.

A 14B dense model that rivals far larger ones on math and reasoning, under a permissive MIT license.

First Gemini 2.0 release, built for native multimodal input/output, tool use, and agentic product integrations.

EXAONE 3.5 32B open-weight model for bilingual reasoning, coding, and long-context tasks.

General release of OpenAI's o1 reasoning model with stronger deliberative reasoning and multimodal ChatGPT integration.

Qwen's first public reasoning-preview model, aimed at math, coding, and deliberate problem solving.

Reasoning-preview model exposed in DeepSeek Chat ahead of the open DeepSeek-R1 release.

01.AI's MoE API model that reached the global top-10 on Chatbot Arena, strong in Chinese, math, and coding.

Broad Qwen2.5 foundation-model update spanning general, coding, math, and multimodal descendants.

OpenAI's first public reasoning-model preview, optimized to spend more inference time on hard math, coding, and science tasks.

Second-generation Grok release with Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini for chat, coding, reasoning, and image-enabled product experiences.

Major Sonnet upgrade that became Anthropic's default high-intelligence workhorse for coding, writing, and visual reasoning.

Qwen2's largest dense model, introducing stronger multilingual support, coding/math gains, and long-context variants.

Yi 1.5 update with stronger instruction following, coding, math, and multilingual performance.

Grok update with stronger reasoning and a 128K context window.

Databricks' 132B-total / 36B-active open MoE model for code, math, RAG, and enterprise self-hosted workloads.

2.7B-parameter Phi model showing strong reasoning and language understanding at small scale.

Baidu's fourth-generation ERNIE flagship, announced with stronger understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory.

Google's improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding foundation model family introduced at I/O 2023.

The model that brought reliable multi-step reasoning to the mainstream; size never disclosed.