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Cohere's open-weight LLM family optimized for retrieval-augmented generation and tool use; succeeded by Command A as Cohere's flagship.
Open (open weights/source) CC-BY-NC-4.0
Use cases
- Enterprise RAG assistants grounded in company documents
- Building agents that call external tools and APIs
- Research on open-weight instruction-tuned models
Pricing: Model weights are free for non-commercial research under a CC-BY-NC license; commercial access is via Cohere's usage-priced API and enterprise deployments.
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Family of open-weight large language models developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII).
Open (open weights/source) TII Falcon License
Use cases
- Self-hosted chatbots and text generation
- Research on large-scale open models
- Fine-tuning for domain-specific applications
Pricing: Falcon models are free to download and use commercially under permissive TII licenses; costs come only from the compute used to run them.
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IBM's family of open-weight language models aimed at enterprise and code tasks.
Open (open weights/source) Apache-2.0
Use cases
- Enterprise assistants with permissive licensing requirements
- On-premises deployments where data control matters
- Fine-tuning small models for business workflows
Pricing: Granite weights are free under Apache 2.0; hosted inference through IBM watsonx or partner clouds is billed by usage.
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Open model family from AI21 Labs that combines Transformer and state-space (Mamba) architectures.
Open (open weights/source) Jamba Open Model License
Use cases
- Long-document analysis and summarization
- Enterprise RAG over large corpora
- Research on hybrid state-space architectures
Pricing: Jamba weights are downloadable under the Jamba Open Model License; managed access through AI21's platform and cloud marketplaces is billed per token.
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Family of open language models released by NVIDIA for enterprise and research use.
Open (open weights/source) NVIDIA Open Model License
Use cases
- Building agentic AI on open, commercially usable models
- Enterprise deployments on NVIDIA infrastructure
- Research using open post-training datasets
Pricing: Nemotron weights are free under NVIDIA's open model license; production deployment via NVIDIA NIM/AI Enterprise is licensed commercially.
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Family of open-weight large language models from Mistral AI, including the Mistral and Mixtral series.
Open (open weights/source) Apache-2.0 for Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct; other releases differ (Mistral Medium 3.5: Modified MIT; Mistral Large 4: 'Open'; Voxtral TTS: CC BY-NC 4.0)
Use cases
- Self-hosting efficient open models
- European deployments with data-residency needs
- Fine-tuning compact models for specific tasks
Pricing: Open-weight models are free to download; hosted API access and commercial models are usage-priced.
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Open-weight bilingual LLM family from Beijing-based Baichuan Intelligence, now focused on medical AI with its Baichuan-M reasoning models.
Open (open weights/source) Baichuan Community License
Use cases
- Building Chinese-language NLP applications on open weights
- Research on bilingual large language models
- Medical AI assistants based on the Baichuan-M series
Pricing: Open-weight Baichuan models are free to download for research, with licensing terms for commercial use; hosted APIs are billed by usage.
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Open-weight LLM family and chat assistant from Hangzhou-based DeepSeek, known for strong reasoning models.
Open (open weights/source) MIT (DeepSeek-V3 repository code); DeepSeek Model License (DeepSeek-V3 Base and Chat weights)
Use cases
- Math, coding, and analytical tasks that need explicit reasoning
- Self-hosting open-weight models for privacy or cost control
- Cost-sensitive API integrations
Pricing: The chat assistant is free; the developer API is usage-priced, and open-weight models can be self-hosted without license fees.
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