AI Models & Intelligence
Foundation and open-weight models compared on the axes that decide a deployment: reasoning quality, latency, context length, licence, and cost per real task.
9 items · human-reviewed
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ChatGPT
The most widely used conversational AI, powerful reasoning, coding, and writing.
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Claude
Anthropic's flagship model, revered for unmatched nuance in writing, large context windows, and zero-shot reasoning.
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DeepSeek R1
A Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model that reset price expectations for frontier-class performance.
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Gemma 3 (27B)
Google's 27B open-weights model, tuned to fit machines with 32GB of unified memory.
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Google Gemini
Google's deeply integrated AI model, baked directly into Workspace.
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Llama 3.3 (70B)
The open-weights reference point at 70B — the strongest local option if the hardware exists.
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Perplexity
An AI search engine that delivers direct, cited answers instead of a list of blue links.
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Qwen 3 MoE
A large Mixture-of-Experts model offering frontier-class performance outside the US provider ecosystem.
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xAI Grok 4.6
xAI's newest release focusing on running specialized AI agents in parallel to synthesize responses.
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