Phi alternatives

• Baichuan (Baichuan Intelligence) — 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)
• Command R (Cohere) — 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)
• DBRX (Databricks) — Open-weight mixture-of-experts LLM released by Databricks in 2024; retired from Databricks serving in 2025, though the weights remain available. Open (open weights/source)
• DeepSeek (DeepSeek) — Open-weight LLM family and chat assistant from Hangzhou-based DeepSeek, known for strong reasoning models. The official DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 API brings a major agent-capability upgrade via post-training, with native Responses API support and Codex adaptation. Open (open weights/source)
• Falcon (Technology Innovation Institute) — Family of open-weight large language models developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII). Open (open weights/source)
• Gemma (Google DeepMind) — Google's family of lightweight open-weight models derived from the same research as Gemini. Open (open weights/source)
• GLM (Z.ai (Zhipu AI)) — Family of open-weight large language models from Zhipu AI, spanning general, reasoning, and coding-focused variants. Open (open weights/source)
• Granite (IBM) — IBM's family of open-weight language models aimed at enterprise and code tasks. Open (open weights/source)
• Jamba (AI21 Labs) — Open model family from AI21 Labs that combines Transformer and state-space (Mamba) architectures. Open (open weights/source)
• Llama (Meta) — Open-weight large language model family from Meta, spanning Llama 3 and Llama 4 generations across multiple sizes. Open (open weights/source)
• Mistral (Mistral AI) — Family of open-weight large language models from Mistral AI, including the Mistral and Mixtral series. Open (open weights/source)
• Nemotron (NVIDIA) — Family of open language models released by NVIDIA for enterprise and research use. Open (open weights/source)
• OLMo (Allen Institute for AI) — Fully open large language model family from Ai2, released with its training data, code, and weights. Open (open weights/source)
• Qwen (Alibaba) — 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)
• Yi (01.AI) — Open-weight bilingual (English and Chinese) large language model family from 01.AI. Open (open weights/source)

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