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Model families and named models

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Midjourney v5

Midjourney v5 is version 5 of Midjourney's text-to-image model, released in March 2023 as an alpha for subscribers through Discord, whose photorealistic output set off the public debate over AI images passing as real photographs.

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Midjourney v6

Midjourney v6 is a text-to-image model from the company Midjourney, released in alpha on December 20, 2023, and the service's default model from February 2024 until v6.1 replaced it in July 2024.

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Midjourney v7

Midjourney v7 is a text-to-image model released in alpha by Midjourney on April 3, 2025, featuring Draft Mode, default personalization, and Omni Reference for consistent characters.

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Ming-UniAudio

Ming-UniAudio is a unified speech language model family from Ant Group's inclusionAI team, released with open weights in November 2025, combining speech understanding, generation, and instruction-based editing.

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MiniCPM

MiniCPM is a family of small language and multimodal models developed by OpenBMB, designed for on-device use, with text models from 1B to 4B parameters released since 2024.

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MiniCPM-V

MiniCPM-V is a family of open-weight multimodal large language models developed by OpenBMB, first released in February 2024 and designed to run image and video understanding on consumer devices like smartphones.

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MiniGPT-4

MiniGPT-4 is an open-source vision-language model developed at KAUST and introduced in 2023, aligning a frozen vision encoder with the Vicuna language model through one projection layer.

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MiniMax (model family)

MiniMax is a family of large language models from the Chinese AI company MiniMax, using a hybrid mixture-of-experts design that reaches context windows of up to 4 million tokens.

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MiniMax H3

MiniMax H3 is an omni-modal generative model released by AI company MiniMax in 2026, generating video with native stereo audio at up to 2K resolution.

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MiniMax H3 jurisdictional carve-out

The MiniMax H3 jurisdictional carve-out is a license condition in MiniMax's August 2026 open-weight release of its H3 video model, barring users in the US, EU, UK, and South Korea.

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MiniMax Speech

MiniMax Speech is a commercial text-to-speech and zero-shot voice-cloning model family from the Chinese AI company MiniMax, first released in January 2025 and supporting over 40 languages.

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MiniMax-M1

MiniMax-M1 is an open-weight large language model for reasoning released by the Chinese AI company MiniMax in June 2025, supporting a 1 million-token context window.

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Minitron

Minitron is a family of small language models developed by NVIDIA through structured pruning and knowledge distillation, first applied to Nemotron-4 15B to create 8B and 4B models.

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Mistral (model family)

Mistral (model family) is a line of large language models from Mistral AI. It began in 2023 and is known for its efficient architecture and open-weight licensing.

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Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is a 675B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts multimodal language model released by Mistral AI on December 2, 2025 under Apache 2.0, its first mixture-of-experts model since Mixtral.

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Mistral Research License

The Mistral Research License (MRL) is a research-only license Mistral AI attached to downloadable weights of flagship models like Mistral Large 2 in 2024, barring commercial use.

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Mixtral 8x7B

Mixtral 8x7B is an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts language model released by Mistral AI in December 2023 under Apache 2.0, with 47B total parameters of which 13B are active per token.

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MMS (Massively Multilingual Speech)

Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) is a set of open speech models released by Meta AI in May 2023, extending speech recognition and synthesis to over 1,100 languages.

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MobileBERT

MobileBERT is a compact, task-agnostic version of the BERT language model released by Google and Carnegie Mellon researchers in 2020 for natural language processing on mobile devices.

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MobileLLM

MobileLLM is a family of small language models developed by Meta for inference on mobile devices, spanning 125M to 1.5B parameters and first published at ICML 2024.

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Model gating

Model gating is the practice of requiring users to accept terms, and often share contact details, before downloading a model's weights, pioneered by Meta's gated LLaMA release in 2023.

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Model Openness Framework

The Model Openness Framework (MOF) is a three-tier classification system, created by the Linux Foundation's Generative AI Commons in 2024, that rates how openly licensed a model's components are.

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ModelScope

ModelScope is a model-and-dataset hosting platform and open-source machine-learning toolkit launched by Alibaba in mainland China in November 2022, positioned as China's counterpart to Hugging Face.

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Molmo

Molmo is a family of open-weight vision-language models released by the Allen Institute for AI in September 2024, distinguished by a pointing capability and fully open training data.

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Moshi

Moshi is an open, full-duplex speech-native conversational model released by the French non-profit AI lab Kyutai in September 2024, able to listen and speak simultaneously.

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MOSS-TTS

MOSS-TTS is an open-source speech and sound generation model family from the OpenMOSS team, a research group under Shanghai Innovation Institution working with Fudan University, released under Apache 2.0.

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Motubrain

Motubrain is a World Action Model for robot control released on 29 April 2026 by Chinese AI company Shengshu Technology, jointly modeling video prediction and robot action generation.

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mPLUG-Owl

mPLUG-Owl is a series of open-source multimodal large language models from Alibaba's DAMO Academy, first released in April 2023, with three generations through 2024 covering images and video.

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MPT (MosaicML model family)

MPT (MosaicPretrainedTransformer) is a family of open-weight large language models released by MosaicML in 2023, with differing licenses such as Apache 2.0 for MPT-7B Base.

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Mureka

Mureka, first released as SkyMusic, is a family of text-to-song generative AI models developed by the Chinese technology company Kunlun Tech and launched in 2024.