List of the Hottest AI Models Released in 2025 and 2024

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Today’s news talks about AI Models being released in the market on and off. Big companies like Google or small setups like OpenAI and Anthropic have come a long way in launching new AI models. These AI models are often promoted based on industry benchmarks. The question is do people familiar with the AI models and their use in the particular field?

Updated Tracklist of Most Advanced AI Models

With new AI models launched in the market in 2025 and 2024, it can be overwhelming to keep track of them all. We have compiled a listed guide to the newest and most advanced AI models, what they do, and how to use them.

AI Models Released in 2025

The following is a list of a few AI models released in 2025: 

OpenAI’s GPT 4.5 ‘Orion’

Orion is known to be OpenAI’s largest model to date. The AI model excels in world knowledge and emotional reasoning. With the new launches, the model can outperform on many benchmarks. Open AI’s subscribers can get the model for a $200 per month plan.

Claude Sonnet 3.7 by Anthropic

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 3.7 and claimed it to be the industry’s first ‘hybrid’ reasoning model. The model is specialized in thinking abruptly and producing the answers when needed. Users have complete control of Claude Sonnet 3.7. This model is available to all Claude users but the pro plan is available on a subscription of $20 per month. 

xAI’s Grok 3

Elon Musk has come up with his AI model, launched under the banner of his startup xAI. This model is professional at math, science, and coding leaving behind all the models. The Grok model was made to shift to a more ‘political neutral.’ The model is available to the users for a $50 per month X Premium subscription. 

OpenAI o3-mini

Open AI’s latest reasoning model is available for STEM-related tasks like math, science, and coding. The model is powerful and is of lower cost. OpenAI o3-mini is available in free and paid subscription versions. 

OpenAI Deep Research

As the name suggests, OpenAI Deep Research is designed for research purposes. The AI model is specialized in in-depth research with citations. Users can get the most out of this model from science to shopping research with ChatGPT’s $200 per month Pro subscription. 

Mistral Le Chat

Mistral Le Chat is a fast multimodal AI personal assistant in an app version. Mistral claimed the model to be more efficient in producing responses as compared to other chatbots. Its updated version is available on the pay plan. Note that this model makes more errors than ChatGPT. 

OpenAI Operator

OpenAI Operator is designed to act like a personal intern to help its users with tasks like buying groceries. Users can get the model by subscribing to ChatGPT’s $200 per month Pro plan. Note that the model is inefficient in various tasks.

Google Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental

Google Gemini came up with its flagship model Google Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental. The model is professional at coding and general knowledge. It can process and generate data efficiently with its long-context window of 2 million tokens. Users are required to pay $19.99 per month for a Google One AI Premium subscription to use the model. 

AI Models Released in 2024

The following is an updated list of AI models released in 2024: 

DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek R1 is a professional AI model for coding and math. Its open-source nature makes it available to all users for free. This AI model censored by the Chinese government and faced bans in some countries. 

Gemini Deep Research

Gemini's most known Deep Research AI model is designed for quick research. It summarizes Google search results efficiently and is helpful in quick research summaries. However, the model lacks in some areas. Users can get the model for a $19.99 Google One AI Premium subscription. 

Meta Llama 3.3 70B

Meta launched its most newest and advanced Llama AI model version Meta Llama 3.3 70B. This AI model is efficient in math and general knowledge. Its free availability and open-source nature make it the best among all. 

OpenAI Sora

OpenAI’s Sora is designed to generate realistic videos rather than clips from texts. This AI model often lacks in creating realistic physics. Users can get the model on paid versions of ChatGPT, starting with Plus, which is $20 a month. 

Alibaba Qwen QwQ-32B-Preview

Alibaba Qwen QwQ-32B-Preview comes as a rival to OpenAI’s o1 in math and coding. According to Alibaba, the model needs improvement in common sense reasoning. It is free and open-source for its users. 

Anthropic’s Computer Use

OpenAI predecessor, Anthropic Computer Use is designed to take control of your computer. The control of the computer will lead to the completion of tasks like coding and booking plane tickets. It is available via API: $0.80 per million tokens of input and $4 per million tokens of output.

x.AI’s Grok 2

Elon Musk founded x.AI has updated its Grok 2 chatbot. This enhanced version claims to be ‘three times faster’ with the introduction of an image generator, Aurora. Users can subscribe to Premium subscription plans to get the model. 

OpenAI o1

OpenAI o1 excels at thinking through responses, coding, and math. However, the model can deceive humans in reasoning. The model is available to the users for a $20 a-month ChatGPT Plus subscription. 

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5

Claude Sonnet 3.5 by Anthropic is the best as it claims. It specializes in coding and tech insiders' chatbot of choice. The model can understand the images but can’t generate them. It is available in free and paid versions. Its pay plan requires users to subscribe to a $20 monthly Pro subscription

OpenAI GPT 4o-mini

OpenAI’s affordable and fastest model has efficiency in a broad range of tasks like powering customer service chatbots. It is a free version model. Note that OpenAI GPT 4o-mini is better suited to simple tasks than complex ones. 

Cohere Command R+

Cohere’s Command R+ model is suitable for complex Retrieval-Augmented Generation (or RAG) applications for enterprises. (The inventor of RAG works at Cohere.) Still, RAG fails to solve AI’s hallucination problem.