Gemma 4
Google's open model family — 26B and 31B instruction-tuned
Verdict
Best small-to-medium open model from Google. 26B A4B variant uses mixture of experts for efficiency. Strong at instruction following and reasoning. Good JAX and Keras ecosystem.
Other Text Generation & Reasoning
- Claude 3.5 SonnetProduction
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- Claude 4 SonnetProduction
Anthropic's latest — best-in-class coding, reasoning, and safety
- Command R+Stable
Cohere's enterprise model optimised for RAG and tool use
- DeepSeek R1Production
Open-weight chain-of-thought reasoning rivalling GPT-o1
- DeepSeek V3Production
685B MoE model trained for $5.5M — remarkable efficiency
- GLM-5Experimental
Zhipu AI's 754B frontier model from China's leading AI lab