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Frontier LLMs

16 models · 12 providers · last updated November 2026

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Amazon Nova

Amazon

AWS Nova models for cost-efficient text, image, and video understanding in Bedrock.

Anthropic API

Anthropic

Claude models on the Messages API for products that need long context and safety tooling.

ChatGPT

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OpenAI

OpenAI's consumer and team chat surface for GPT-5 class models, tools, and multimodal tasks.

Claude

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Anthropic

Anthropic's assistant for long-context analysis, writing, coding, and cautious frontier reasoning.

Command

Cohere

Cohere's enterprise Command models for retrieval-grounded chat and automation.

DeepSeek

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek's chat and API models known for strong reasoning and competitive open-weight releases.

Gemini

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Google

Google's multimodal models in Search, Workspace, and the Gemini app.

Google AI Studio

Google

Prototype and ship with Gemini models, multimodal prompts, and API keys.

Grok

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xAI

xAI's model line with real-time X data, bold tone, and fast multimodal answers.

Llama

Meta

Meta's open-weight Llama models for self-hosted, fine-tuned, and on-device LLM workloads.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft

Microsoft's everyday AI assistant across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365.

Mistral

Mistral AI

Mistral's compact and frontier models for European-hosted chat and API workloads.

OpenAI API

OpenAI

Developer APIs for GPT, reasoning, embeddings, speech, and image models.

Perplexity

Answer engine

Citation-first answers that combine search retrieval with frontier LLM synthesis.

Qwen

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen models for multilingual chat, coding, and open-weight deployment.

xAI API

xAI

API access to Grok models for developers building on xAI infrastructure.

Introduction to frontier LLMs

This directory tracks major large language models and chat products — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, open-weight families, and enterprise APIs — so you can compare where each model line lives and what it is built for.

Each listing links to the official product or API with a short tagline, provider category, and detail page. Use search and filters to browse by name or provider.

The field moves quickly; listings are maintained as structured data so you can orient across chat apps, APIs, and open models without rebuilding the same comparison sheet.