🚀 The Rise of Generative AI

In late 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, sparking a revolution in how people interact with AI. Since then, many powerful models have followed:

LLM Name License Type Open Source License Country of Origin Company Release Date Deployment Environment Capabilities Context Window (Tokens) Reference
Claude 4 Proprietary N/A USA Anthropic May 22, 2025 Cloud Enhanced reasoning, visual analysis 200,000 Claude 4
Gemini 2.5 Pro Proprietary N/A USA Google DeepMind Mar 25, 2025 Cloud Real-time audio/video, enhanced spatial understanding 1,000,000 Gemini 2.5
DeepSeek-R1 Open-source MIT China DeepSeek AI Jan 20, 2025 Cloud, Local Advanced reasoning, coding, math 32,000 DeepSeek AI
Qwen 2.5 Max Open-source Apache 2.0 China Alibaba Cloud Jan 2025 Cloud, Local Multimodal, coding, math, vision 32,000 Qwen 2.5
Claude 3 Proprietary N/A USA Anthropic Mar 4, 2024 Cloud Multimodal, long-context understanding 200,000 Claude 3
GPT-4o Proprietary N/A USA OpenAI May 13, 2024 Cloud Multimodal (text, image, audio), faster, cost-effective 128,000 GPT-4o
LLaMA 3 Source-available Custom (with restrictions) USA Meta Apr 18, 2024 Cloud, Local (with license) Multilingual, multimodal, advanced reasoning 8,000 LLaMA 3
Gemini 1.5 Proprietary N/A USA Google DeepMind Feb 15, 2024 Cloud Multimodal, long-context processing 2,000,000 Gemini 1.5
Grok Proprietary N/A USA xAI (Elon Musk) Nov 2023 Cloud (X/Twitter Premium) Conversational AI with real-time knowledge from X Unknown Grok
GPT-4 Proprietary N/A USA OpenAI Mar 14, 2023 Cloud Multimodal (text, image), advanced reasoning 32,000 GPT-4
LLaMA 2 Source-available Custom (with restrictions) USA Meta Jul 18, 2023 Cloud, Local (with license) Text generation, chat 4,096 LLaMA 2
Mistral 7B Open-source Apache 2.0 France Mistral AI Sep 27, 2023 Cloud, Local Code generation, reasoning 32,000 Mistral 7B
ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) Proprietary N/A USA OpenAI Nov 30, 2022 Cloud Conversational AI, general-purpose tasks 4,096 ChatGPT