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Frontier and regional LLMs used in class, internships, and side projects—US labs plus major Chinese model families students keep seeing online. For students and learners in Skagit Valley and Northwest Washington.
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Chat & API models
Frontier and regional LLMs used in class, internships, and side projects—US labs plus major Chinese model families students keep seeing online.
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Aleph Alpha
German sovereign-AI lab aimed at regulated enterprise use.
Anthropic Claude
Long-context workhorse with a careful vibe.
Black Forest Labs (FLUX)
German lab behind FLUX—top-tier open/API image models.
Cohere
Enterprise LLM + RAG tooling—Command models and embeddings.
DeepSeek
Chinese lab punching above its weight on reasoning + code.
Fireworks AI
Fast inference cloud for open and proprietary models.
GLM (Zhipu)
Zhipu’s GLM line—another major China model stack.
Google Gemini
Google’s multimodal stack—text, images, and Google-shaped tooling.
Groq
API inference built for speed—great for demos and tight loops.
Kimi (Moonshot)
Moonshot’s Kimi—long-context chat from China.
MiniMax
Chinese lab in the multimodal / agent-capable model race.
OpenAI (GPT)
The default most tutorials still assume.
OpenRouter
One API key → many models. Perfect for side-by-side evals.
Qwen (Alibaba)
Alibaba’s Qwen family—chat, code, and open weights.
Replicate
Run community models via API without babysitting GPUs.
Together AI
Inference cloud for open models—common in builder tutorials.
xAI Grok
Grok—xAI’s chatty model with a public personality.
Yi (01.AI)
01.AI’s Yi family—another China open/API model line to know by name.