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Model families and named models

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Muse

Muse is a text-to-image generation model introduced by Google Research in January 2023, generating images by predicting randomly masked discrete image tokens with a Transformer rather than by diffusion.

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Muse Code

Muse Code is Meta's terminal-based coding agent, released in beta in August 2026 and powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-specialized model from Meta Superintelligence Labs.

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Muse Image

Muse Image is a text-to-image generation and editing model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the lab's first image model, launched July 7, 2026 in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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Muse Spark

Muse Spark is a proprietary, natively multimodal large language model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs and released on April 8, 2026, powering the Meta AI assistant.

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Music transformer

The Music Transformer is a neural network model for generating symbolic piano music, introduced in 2018 by Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang and colleagues in Google's Magenta group and published at ICLR 2019.

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MusicGen

MusicGen is an open-weights transformer model from Meta that generates short music clips from text descriptions, released in June 2023, presented at NeurIPS 2023, and capped at 30 seconds.

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MusicLM

MusicLM is a text-to-music model introduced by Google in a January 2023 paper, generating 24 kHz music from text descriptions that stays consistent over several minutes.

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Nano Banana Pro

Nano Banana Pro, officially named Gemini 3 Pro Image, is an image generation and editing model released by Google in November 2025, built on Gemini 3 Pro.

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NaturalSpeech 3

NaturalSpeech 3 is a zero-shot text-to-speech system from Microsoft Research, announced in 2024 and published at ICML. It splits speech into content, prosody, timbre, and acoustic details, synthesized by separate diffusion models.

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Nemotron

Nemotron, also known as NVIDIA Nemotron, is a family of open-weight large language models developed by NVIDIA, positioned for reasoning and agentic AI workloads and published openly on Hugging Face.

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Neural radiance fields

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) is a technique for synthesizing novel views of a scene from ordinary photographs, introduced by Ben Mildenhall and colleagues in March 2020.

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Niji·Journey

Niji·Journey is an anime-focused text-to-image model family developed by Midjourney with the studio Spellbrush, first released in 2022 and known for clean anime characters and natural hands.

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Nomic Embed

Nomic Embed is a family of fully open embedding models, text, vision, and multimodal, released by Nomic AI from February 2024 with weights, code, and data all public.

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Nous Hermes

Nous Hermes is a family of open-weight instruction-tuned and reasoning large language models from Nous Research, first released in 2023 and known for strict adherence to user-supplied system prompts.

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NovelAI

NovelAI Diffusion is a family of anime-focused text-to-image models served by subscription, first released in October 2022 as a Stable Diffusion fine-tune and original from V4 onward.

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Nucleotide Transformer

The Nucleotide Transformer is a family of DNA language models by InstaDeep, NVIDIA, and Technical University of Munich, released in 2023 and published in Nature Methods in 2024.

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Nucleus-Image

Nucleus-Image is a 17B-parameter open-source text-to-image diffusion model using a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture, released by NucleusAI on April 14, 2026 under Apache 2.0, activating roughly 2B parameters per generation.

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NVIDIA Cosmos

NVIDIA Cosmos is a family of open world foundation models from NVIDIA for physical AI, predicting and simulating world states to train robots and autonomous vehicles.

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NVIDIA Isaac GR00T

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, also known as Project GR00T, is an open family of vision-language-action foundation models for humanoid robots, first released by NVIDIA in March 2025.

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o1 (OpenAI reasoning model)

o1 is a large language model released by OpenAI on September 12, 2024, the first in its reasoning-model line, trained to think through problems step by step.

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o3

o3 is a reasoning model released by OpenAI, announced in December 2024 and shipped in April 2025, best known for scoring 87.5% on the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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Oasis

Oasis is a real-time AI world model released by Decart and Etched in October 2024, generating a playable, Minecraft-style world frame-by-frame with no game engine.

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Octo (robot foundation model)

Octo is an open-source generalist robot policy that maps camera images and task specifications to robot actions, pretrained on 800,000 demonstrations and released in May 2024.

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OLMo (model family)

OLMo is a family of fully open large language models from the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), first released in February 2024 with weights, training data, and code published.

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OmniVoice

OmniVoice is an open-source zero-shot text-to-speech model released in April 2026 by Xiaomi's next-generation Kaldi team, trained on 581,000 hours of open data covering 646 languages.

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Open Source AI Definition (OSI)

The Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) is a standard by the Open Source Initiative specifying what AI systems must disclose to be called open source.

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Open-Sora

Open-Sora is an open-source text-to-video and image-to-video generation model by HPC-AI Tech, reproducing the techniques in OpenAI's Sora report; version 2.0, an 11B-parameter model, was released in 2025.

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OpenAI Codex (coding agent)

OpenAI Codex is an agentic coding system by OpenAI, first launched in 2025 with a cloud agent, an open-source CLI, and IDE and mobile surfaces.

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OpenAI o-series (reasoning models)

The OpenAI o-series is a family of large language models trained with reinforcement learning to reason through hidden chains of thought, launched with o1 in September 2024 and folded into GPT-5 in August 2025.

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OpenAI o3

OpenAI o3 is a reasoning model released by OpenAI on April 16, 2025 as the successor to o1, described by the company as its most powerful reasoning model.