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AI Models

A brain that thinks in words.

Words go in. Words come out. Pick the right brain for each task.

Engine room with a glowing geometric brain core and cables — Layer 1: LLM
Layer 1 of the substrate — the office cross-section detail.

An LLM is, simply, a brain. You put something in, something comes out. Words go in; words come back. Some brains are careful and thorough — Claude does this well. Some are fast and confident — GPT excels. Some handle pictures and sound natively — Gemini’s strength. Some are small enough to run on your own hardware — Llama 4, Qwen, the OSS-80B class. You don’t pick one brain forever. You pick the right brain for each task. Two years ago the standard was 8–32K context. Today Llama 4 Scout and Gemini 3 Pro both reach 10M — an entire codebase or a year of email in one go.

Vendors we track

Claude 4.6GPT-5Gemini 3 ProLlama 4 ScoutQwen 2.5OSS-80B

Going deeper

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