The picks
Our current answer for every category.
On the radar
New and emerging contenders that could change the board.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
MIT-licensed multimodal Flash model, FP8 weights
Nex-N2.5-Pro
Apache-2.0 open-weight LLM from a newcomer lab
ChatGPT Images 2.5
ChatGPT's new image model, reference-led
Claude Mythos 5.1
Anthropic's other 5.1 line, spotted on Vellum
Gemini 3.8 Flash
New Flash-tier Gemini, plus a cyber variant
K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B
36B MoE with 4B active, weights published
hy4-preview
Tencent preview lands in the WebDev top five
Spark-X2.5-4B
Apache-2.0 4B chat model from a new lab
What changed
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