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Models Released in 2021
Browse every generative AI model released in 2021 — 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 2020 and models from 2022.
Vespa
🇺🇸 Technical University of Munich
ERNIE 3.0 Titan
🇨🇳 Baidu
Fairseq-dense 13B
🇺🇸 Meta AI
GLIDE
🇺🇸 OpenAI
LDM-1.45B
🇺🇸 Heidelberg University
MoE-1.1T
🇺🇸 Meta AI
XGLM
🇺🇸 Meta AI
XGLM-7.5B
🇺🇸 Meta AI
Contriever
🇺🇸 Meta AI
HSO
🇺🇸 Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
LongT5
🇺🇸 Google Research
EXAONE 1.0
🇰🇷 LG
GLaM
Engine-Base (NE)
🇺🇸 Boston University
Engine-Medium(NE)
🇺🇸 Boston University
Gopher (280B)
🇬🇧 DeepMind
Gopher (7.1B)
🇬🇧 DeepMind
CTR-BERT
🇺🇸 Amazon
Student of Games
🇬🇧 DeepMind
T-NLRv5 XXL
🇺🇸 Microsoft
GPT-2-Medium+Pixelfly
🇺🇸 Stanford University
GPT-2-Small+Pixelfly
🇺🇸 Stanford University
Quantized ADMM
🇺🇸 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Transformer LM + MinSen
🇺🇸 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
NÜWA
🇺🇸 Microsoft Research
Persia
🇨🇭 ETH Zurich
Florence
🇺🇸 Microsoft
BASIC-L
DeBERTaV3large
🇺🇸 Microsoft Research
Swin Transformer V2 (SwinV2-G)
🇺🇸 Microsoft Research Asia
ESM1v
🇺🇸 Facebook AI Research
A.X (Adot) 18B
🇰🇷 SK Telecom
EquiDock
🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
ViT-G/14 (LiT)
🇺🇸 Google Research
KoGPT
🇰🇷 Kakao
Masked Autoencoders ViT-H
🇺🇸 Facebook AI Research
GPT-2 (AMPS)
🇺🇸 University of California (UC) Berkeley
GPT2+CoreLM+Fine-Tuning
🇬🇷 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
NCP-VAE (CIFAR 10)
🇺🇸 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
NCP-VAE (Celeba HQ)
🇺🇸 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
CodeT5-base
🇺🇸 Salesforce
Projected GAN
🇺🇸 Heidelberg University
S4
🇺🇸 Stanford University
EfficientZero
🇨🇳 Tsinghua University
Scatterbrain
🇺🇸 Stanford University
Eve
🇺🇸 Harvard Medical School
DALL-E mini
🇺🇸 Craiyon
PMLM-large
🇺🇸 Microsoft Research Asia
WD+LR+M
🇨🇳 University of Cambridge
base LM+GNN (WT103)
🇨🇳 Shannon.AI
base LM+GNN+kNN
🇨🇳 Shannon.AI
GPT-2 (fine-tuned with HYDRA)
🇺🇸 University of California San Diego
MGK 4 heads (medium)
🇺🇸 FPT Software AI Center
MGK 8 heads (small)
🇺🇸 FPT Software AI Center
PAGnol-XL
🇫🇷 LightOn
KnGPT2
🇨🇳 Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
T0-XXL
🇺🇸 Hugging Face
TOME
🇺🇸 University of Southern California
Yuan 1.0
🇨🇳 Inspur
Megatron-Turing NLG 530B
🇺🇸 Microsoft
2021 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 2021 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 2020 or AI models from 2022 to compare how capabilities, context windows and open-weights availability evolved year over year.