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Large language model families

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Solar (model family)

Solar is a family of large language models developed by the South Korean AI company Upstage, beginning in 2023 and known for the depth up-scaling technique.

Spark (iFlytek model family)

Spark, also known as Spark Desk, is a family of large language models developed by the Chinese AI company iFlytek, first released in May 2023.

StableLM (model family)

StableLM is a family of open-weight large language models released by Stability AI beginning in April 2023, progressing from 3B and 7B Alpha models to the Stable LM 2 series in 2024 before going dormant.

Step (model family)

Step is a family of large language and multimodal models from the Chinese AI startup StepFun, whose flagship open model Step3 was released under Apache 2.0 in 2025.

Swallow (AI model)

Swallow is a family of open-weight large language models adapted for Japanese, built by Institute of Science Tokyo with AIST through continual pre-training of Llama and Gemma base models.

T5 (language model)

T5 (Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer) is Google's open-source encoder-decoder language model family (60M–11B parameters) that casts every NLP task as text in, text out, trained on the 750 GB C4 corpus; variants include mT5, ByT5, and FLAN-T5.

TinyLlama

TinyLlama is an open-weight small language model of 1.1 billion parameters, trained on 3 trillion tokens in 2023 by a four-person team at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Tongyi DeepResearch

Tongyi DeepResearch is an open-source agentic large language model from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab, released in September 2025 with 30.5 billion parameters and built for autonomous, long-horizon web research tasks.

Tsuzumi (model family)

Tsuzumi is a family of large language models for Japanese and English developed by NTT, announced in 2023 with lightweight versions that run on a CPU or a single GPU.

Tulu (AI model family)

Tulu (Tülu) is a family of open instruction-following language models from the Allen Institute for AI, first released in 2023 with full training data and code.

WizardLM

WizardLM is a family of open-weight, instruction-tuned large language models from Microsoft Research, released in 2023 and trained on synthetic Evol-Instruct data, with spin-offs WizardCoder and WizardMath.

Xiaomi MiMo

Xiaomi MiMo is a family of large language models from Chinese electronics maker Xiaomi, beginning in April 2025 with the open-sourced 7-billion-parameter reasoning model MiMo-7B.

YandexGPT

YandexGPT is a family of large language models developed by Yandex, first launched in May 2023 to power the Alice virtual assistant, Yandex Search, and other products.

Yi (model family)

Yi is a family of bilingual Chinese-English large language models released by 01.AI, starting with open-weight 6B and 34B base models in November 2023 and later adding closed API flagships like Yi-Large and Yi-Lightning.