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Waymo World Model

The Waymo World Model is a generative world model for autonomous driving simulation, announced by Waymo in February 2026 and built on Google DeepMind's Genie 3.

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WHAM

WHAM (World and Human Action Model) is a Microsoft generative world model that generates playable Bleeding Edge gameplay from controller input, published in Nature in 2025.

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Whisper

Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition model family from OpenAI, released in September 2022, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio, and robust to accents and noise.

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Windsurf

Windsurf, also known as Devin Desktop, is an AI-native code editor forked from VS Code, launched in 2024 and owned by Cognition AI since 2025.

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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.

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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.

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Xiaomi Robotics U0

Xiaomi Robotics U0 is a 38-billion-parameter multimodal autoregressive world foundation model released by Xiaomi Robotics in July 2026, used to generate synthetic training data for robot policies.

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XTTS

XTTS is a family of open text-to-speech and voice-cloning models by Coqui, released in 2023 and best known through XTTS-v2, which clones a voice from a short audio clip in 17 languages.

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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.

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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.

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Ying (清影) (text-to-video model)

Ying (清影) is a text-to-video and image-to-video generation feature launched by the Chinese AI company Zhipu AI on July 26, 2024, built on its CogVideoX models.

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YuE

YuE is an open-weights lyrics-to-song model family from the M-A-P research collective and HKUST, released in January 2025 and described as the first open-source model generating full songs with vocals and accompaniment.

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Z-Image

Z-Image is a 6-billion-parameter open-weight text-to-image model from Alibaba's Tongyi MAI, released as Z-Image-Turbo in November 2025 and known for photorealistic images on consumer graphics cards with under 16 GB of VRAM.

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Zephyr (AI model)

Zephyr is a 7-billion-parameter open-weight chat model released by Hugging Face's H4 team in October 2023, fine-tuned from Mistral-7B and aligned with direct preference optimization rather than human feedback.

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π0 (Physical Intelligence)

π0 is a vision-language-action model family for dexterous, generalist robot manipulation published by Physical Intelligence, whose October 2024 model generates robot motor commands with flow matching.