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Model families and named models

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Jamba (model family)

Jamba is a family of large language models from AI21 Labs, first released in March 2024, combining Transformer and Mamba layers with a 256K-token context window.

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Janus-Pro

Janus-Pro is a unified multimodal understanding-and-generation model released by DeepSeek on January 27, 2025, in 1B and 7B sizes, generating images from text within a single autoregressive model.

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JASCO

JASCO is a text-to-music AI model from Meta's FAIR team and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced in 2024, that generates music from text, chords, drums, and melody.

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JoyAI-Image

JoyAI-Image is an open-source unified multimodal foundation model from JD.com, released in 2026, that performs image understanding, text-to-image generation, and instruction-guided editing in a single system.

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Jukebox (AI model)

Jukebox is a neural network that OpenAI announced in April 2020, which generates complete songs with vocals as raw audio, conditioned on artist, genre, and lyrics.

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Jules (Google coding agent)

Jules is an asynchronous AI coding agent from Google that clones a GitHub repository to a cloud VM and returns changes as a pull request.

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June 2026 open-weight wave

The June 2026 open-weight wave was a June 2026 span in which roughly 16 to 18 open-weight AI models were released by competing labs within days.

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Kandinsky

Kandinsky is a family of open text-to-image and video diffusion models developed by Sber, with versions reaching up to 19B parameters and featuring native Russian prompt support.

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Karlo

Karlo is a family of text-to-image diffusion models built by Kakao Brain, the AI unit of the Korean company Kakao, first released in December 2022.

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KAT-Coder

KAT-Coder is a line of agentic coding models from Kuaishou's KwaiKAT team, trained with reinforcement learning in executable code environments and released from October 2025.

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Kimi (AI)

Kimi is a family of AI assistants and large language models from Moonshot AI, a Beijing startup founded by Yang Zhilin in March 2023, known for long-context processing.

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Kimi (model family)

Kimi is a family of large language models developed by the Chinese AI company Moonshot AI (月之暗面), best known for the open-weight trillion-parameter models Kimi K2 and K3.

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Kimi k1.5

Kimi k1.5 is a multimodal large language model trained with reinforcement learning by the Chinese AI company Moonshot AI (月之暗面), released as a technical report in January 2025.

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Kimi K2

Kimi K2 is a trillion-parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model released by Moonshot AI in July 2025, with 32 billion activated parameters and a focus on agentic tool use and coding.

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Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model with native vision and a 1-million-token context window, released by Chinese startup Moonshot AI in July 2026.

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Kimi K3 License

The Kimi K3 License is a custom software license issued by Moonshot AI in July 2026 for the open weights of its 2.8-trillion-parameter model Kimi K3.

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Kimi-Audio

Kimi-Audio is an open-source audio foundation model released by Moonshot AI in April 2025, built on a 7-billion-parameter language model and trained on over 13 million hours of audio.

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Kimi-VL

Kimi-VL is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model released by Moonshot AI in April 2025, notable for activating only 2.8B of its 16B parameters while offering multimodal reasoning, long-context understanding, and agent capabilities.

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Kling (可灵)

Kling (可灵) is a family of text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-editing AI models developed by the Chinese short-video company Kuaishou Technology, first released for beta testing in June 2024.

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Kling 3.0

Kling 3.0 is a video generation model series from the Chinese company Kuaishou, released February 5, 2026, adding multi-shot storytelling, native multilingual audio, and 15-second clips.

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Kling AI (可灵)

Kling AI (可灵) is a multimodal video generation model developed by the Chinese platform company Kuaishou Technology, officially launched in June 2024 and released in rapid successive versions.

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Kokoro (AI model)

Kokoro is an open-weight text-to-speech model with 82 million parameters, released by pseudonymous developer hexgrad in December 2024, reaching number 1 in the TTS Spaces Arena despite rivals being far larger.

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Kolors

Kolors is a large-scale text-to-image generation model based on latent diffusion, developed by Kuaishou, bilingual in Chinese and English, released as open weights on 6 July 2024.

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Kosmos

Kosmos is a family of multimodal large language models released by Microsoft Research in 2023, with Kosmos-2 adding pixel-level grounding of text to image regions.

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Legal-BERT

Legal-BERT is a family of BERT language models pre-trained on legal texts, released in 2020 by researchers at the Athens University of Economics and Business for legal NLP tasks.

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LeVo

LeVo is Tencent AI Lab's song-generation model family, which generates full-length songs with vocals and accompaniment from lyrics and descriptive prompts; its open-source SongGeneration series was first released in June 2025.

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LFM2

LFM2 is a family of open-weight small language models released by Liquid AI in July 2025, combining gated convolutions with attention for fast inference on phones and laptops.

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Llama (model family)

Llama is a family of open-weight large language models created by Meta, first released in February 2023, whose release disrupted a market dominated by closed-source models.

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Llama 2

Llama 2 is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned large language models released by Meta on July 18, 2023, including the Llama2-Chat variants, for research and commercial use.

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Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B is a 405-billion-parameter open-weight large language model released by Meta in July 2024, the flagship of the Llama 3.1 collection alongside 8B and 70B models.