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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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Family of open-weight large language models from Zhipu AI, spanning general, reasoning, and coding-focused variants.
Open (open weights/source) MIT
Use cases
- Self-hosting a capable open LLM for products
- Agentic coding via GLM coding plans and APIs
- Research on bilingual Chinese-English models
Pricing: GLM open weights are free under permissive licenses; Zhipu's hosted APIs and coding subscription plans are paid by usage or monthly fee.
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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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Family of open-weight large language models developed by Alibaba, spanning text, vision, and coding tasks, including the Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8-Max lines.
Open (open weights/source) Apache-2.0 (Qwen2.5 open models except the 3B and 72B variants); later Qwen lines not read
Use cases
- Self-hosted multilingual assistants
- Code generation with Qwen coder variants
- Fine-tuning open models for vertical applications
Pricing: Open-weight Qwen models are free to download; hosted access through Alibaba Cloud is usage-priced.
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Listed together in guide “Open-source AI models”
Open-weight bilingual (English and Chinese) large language model family from 01.AI.
Open (open weights/source) Apache-2.0
Use cases
- Self-hosting a bilingual chat or writing assistant
- Fine-tuning on domain data for Chinese-English products
- Research on open large language models
Pricing: Yi model weights are free to download and use under Apache-2.0; costs come only from the compute used to run or fine-tune them.
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Open-source tool for running open large language models locally on your own machine with a simple command-line interface.
Open (open weights/source) MIT
Use cases
- Private, offline AI chat and coding assistance
- Local development against an LLM API without cloud costs
- Experimenting with and comparing open models
Pricing: Ollama is free and open source; optional hosted services are offered separately.
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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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