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Model families and named models

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HiDream-I1

HiDream-I1 is an open-source text-to-image foundation model with 17 billion parameters, built on a sparse Diffusion Transformer and released by HiDream.ai in April 2025 under the MIT license.

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HiFi-GAN

HiFi-GAN is a generative adversarial network vocoder introduced in 2020 by Jungil Kong and colleagues at Kakao Enterprise, converting mel-spectrograms into speech waveforms at high quality and speed.

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Higgs Audio

Higgs Audio is a family of open audio-language models released by Boson AI in 2025, combining audio understanding and expressive speech generation, with version 3 following in 2026.

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HuBERT

HuBERT (Hidden-Unit BERT) is a self-supervised speech representation model released by Meta AI in June 2021, which learns from unlabeled audio by predicting k-means pseudo-labels over masked regions.

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Hugging Face Model Hub

The Hugging Face Model Hub is the main platform for hosting open-weight AI models, launched in 2019 and hosting roughly 3 million public models by 2026.

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Human motion diffusion model

The Human Motion Diffusion Model (MDM) is a diffusion model that generates 3D human motion from text, actions, or nothing, introduced by Tel Aviv University researchers in 2022.

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Hume EVI

Hume EVI, or Empathic Voice Interface, is a family of speech-native conversational models by Hume AI that measures a user's emotional tone and responds with matching expressiveness in real time.

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HuMo

HuMo is an open-source, human-centric video generation framework from ByteDance Research, released in September 2025, that generates controllable videos of people from text, image, and audio inputs.

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Hunyuan (model family)

Hunyuan is Tencent's family of foundation models, first launched in September 2023 as a proprietary enterprise model, now spanning language, reasoning, video, image, 3D, translation, and OCR models, many open-sourced since 2024.

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Hunyuan3D

Hunyuan3D is a family of open 3D asset generation models from Tencent, first released in November 2024, that turns text or images into textured 3D meshes.

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HunyuanImage

HunyuanImage is a family of open-weights text-to-image models published by Tencent. Its third generation, HunyuanImage 3.0, released September 2025, is an 80-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with open weights.

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HunyuanVideo

HunyuanVideo is a family of open-weights text-to-video and image-to-video generation models published by Tencent, beginning with a 13-billion-parameter diffusion transformer released in December 2024 and followed by the smaller HunyuanVideo-1.5 in November 2025.

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HunyuanWorld

HunyuanWorld is Tencent's open-source 3D world generation model family, first released in July 2025, converting text, images, or video into explorable 3D scenes importable into game engines.

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HyperCLOVA (model family)

HyperCLOVA is a family of large language models developed by the Korean internet company NAVER, specialized in Korean language and culture, first released in 2021 and expanded into the HyperCLOVA X line.

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IBM Granite

IBM Granite is a family of open-source generative AI foundation models developed by IBM for enterprise use, first released through watsonx on September 28, 2023.

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Ideogram (text-to-image model)

Ideogram is a text-to-image model and generative media platform from Ideogram AI, a Toronto company launched in August 2023, known for rendering legible text in images.

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Illustrious

Illustrious is a family of open-weights text-to-image models for anime and illustration, built on Stable Diffusion XL by OnomaAI Research, first trained in May 2024 on the Danbooru2023 dataset.

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Imagen (text-to-image model)

Imagen, also known as Google Imagen, is a family of text-to-image diffusion models developed by Google and first presented in May 2022, which turn written descriptions into photorealistic images.

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Imagen 3

Imagen 3 is a latent-diffusion text-to-image model released by Google in 2024, the third Imagen generation, behind image generation in ImageFX and Gemini during 2024 and 2025.

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Imagen 4

Imagen 4 is a proprietary text-to-image latent diffusion model released by Google in May 2025, with improved spelling and typography as its headline advance over Imagen 3.

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Imagen Video

Imagen Video was a text-to-video AI system announced by Google Research in October 2022, generating short high-definition clips from written prompts through a cascade of seven diffusion models.

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IndexTTS

IndexTTS is a zero-shot text-to-speech model family from Bilibili's IndexTeam, first released in 2025, that clones a voice from one clip and controls emotion and duration.

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Inkling (large language model)

Inkling is an open-weights multimodal large language model released by Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's startup, on July 15, 2026, with 975 billion parameters and Apache 2.0 weights.

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InstructPix2Pix

InstructPix2Pix is a diffusion model created by Tim Brooks and colleagues at UC Berkeley in 2022 that edits an image following a written instruction, with no per-image fine-tuning.

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InternLM (model family)

InternLM is a family of open-weight large language models developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory with SenseTime and several universities, first released in 2023 and continued through the InternLM2, InternLM2.5, and InternLM3 generations.

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InternVideo

InternVideo is a family of open video foundation models for video understanding, developed by the General Vision Group at Shanghai AI Laboratory since December 2022.

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InternVL

InternVL is a family of open-weight vision-language models, processing images and text together, developed by OpenGVLab at Shanghai AI Laboratory and first released in December 2023.

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Inworld TTS-2

Inworld TTS-2 is a closed-loop conversational text-to-speech model released by Inworld AI as a research preview on May 5, 2026, in two tiers, Realtime TTS-2 and Realtime TTS-2 Flash.

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Jais (language model)

Jais, named for Jebel Jais, the highest peak in the United Arab Emirates, is a family of open bilingual Arabic-English large language models from Inception, MBZUAI, and Cerebras Systems.

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Jais (جيس) (model family)

Jais (جيس) is a family of open-weight bilingual Arabic-English large language models developed by Inception, Cerebras Systems, and MBZUAI, first released in August 2023 and expanded to 20 models in 2024.