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Models Released in 2016

Browse every generative AI model released in 2016 — large language models, image generators, code models and more — ordered by release date. Compare their specs and rankings on our benchmarks page, or put any two side by side with compare. See also models from 2015 and models from 2017.

83 models

fastText

🇺🇸 Facebook AI Research

Jul 2016
Language Proprietary

node2vec

🇺🇸 Stanford University

Jul 2016 1.3M
Language Proprietary

CCL

🇨🇳 SenseTime

Jun 2016
Vision Proprietary

Wide & Deep

🇺🇸 Google

Jun 2016
Language Proprietary

R-FCN

🇨🇳 Tsinghua University

Jun 2016
Vision Proprietary

DMN

🇺🇸 Salesforce

Jun 2016
Language Proprietary

Segmental RNN

🇺🇸 University of Edinburgh

Jun 2016
Speech Proprietary

CMS-RCNN

IEEE

Jun 2016 138M
Vision Proprietary

PixelCNN

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Jun 2016
Vision Proprietary

Part-of-sentence tagging model

🇺🇸 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

May 2016
Language Proprietary

LRR-4X

🇺🇸 UC Irvine

May 2016 138M
Vision Open (Restricted)

Dueling DQN

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Apr 2016 1.7M
Multimodal Proprietary

Symmetric Residual Encoder-Decoder Net

🇺🇸 Nanjing University

Mar 2016
Vision Proprietary

Binarized Neural Network (MNIST)

🇺🇸 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Mar 2016 37M
Vision Proprietary

Template Adaptation

🇺🇸 University of Oxford

Mar 2016 138M
Vision Proprietary

Named Entity Recognition model

🇺🇸 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Mar 2016
Language Proprietary

Double DQN

🇺🇸 Google DeepMind

Mar 2016 1.5M
Multimodal Proprietary

Order-Embeddings of Images and Language

🇺🇸 University of Toronto

Mar 2016
Vision Open (Restricted)

10 LSTMS + KN-5 (OPTIMAL WEIGHTS)

🇺🇸 Google Brain

Feb 2016 1B
Language Proprietary

BIG LSTM+CNN INPUTS

🇺🇸 Google Brain

Feb 2016 1B
Language Proprietary

A3C FF hs

🇺🇸 Google

Feb 2016
Multimodal Proprietary

Convolutional Pose Machines

🇺🇸 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Jan 2016
Vision Proprietary

AlphaGo Lee

🇬🇧 DeepMind

Jan 2016
Multimodal Proprietary

2016 was another fast-moving year for generative AI. The models listed above span large language models (LLMs), image and video generators, code models and more, each with its own parameter count, context window, licensing and availability. To understand how the models of 2016 actually perform, compare their scores on our benchmarks page, and use compare to evaluate any two releases side by side.

Tracking AI by release year makes it easy to see how the frontier moves. Browse AI models from 2015 or AI models from 2017 to compare how capabilities, context windows and open-weights availability evolved year over year.