Comparing AI models — who builds what and how to choose
The major model families in 2026 at a glance. Who builds Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen — and which model to pick when.
in KI-Modelle
Offene MoE- und Reasoning-Modelle von DeepSeek.
Janus-Pro-7B is DeepSeek's open-source multimodal model from January 2025 — unifying image understanding and image generation in a single 7B architecture, MIT-licensed.
DeepSeek V4 (April 2026) is the fourth generation of the Chinese open-weight MoE model — released as Pro (1.6T parameters) and Flash (284B) under MIT license, with a 1M-token context window.
The major model families in 2026 at a glance. Who builds Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen — and which model to pick when.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama & co. — who builds what, where each family shines, and how to pick the right model for your own use case.
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