Exploring the LLM World
A guide to understanding large language models (LLMs), their capabilities, and applications in various domains.
Some of the best sites to discover and compare top AI models are model hubs, benchmarks, and a few curated directories.
Core model hubs
- Hugging Face Hub – The main open community hub for thousands of text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, with tags, leaderboards, and example code.
- TensorFlow Hub – Google’s repository of pre‑trained models for text, vision, and more, ready to plug into TensorFlow.
- PyTorch Hub / Model Zoo – Official and community PyTorch models for NLP and computer vision, often mirroring top research papers.
- NVIDIA NGC – GPU‑optimized models and containers for deep learning and high‑performance computing, useful if you work on GPUs or in the cloud.
Vendor model portals
- OpenAI – Central place for GPT‑series and other OpenAI models, with capability overviews and API docs.
- Google AI Studio / Gemini – Google’s interface and docs for Gemini models (text, reasoning, multimodal) plus other Google AI tools.
- Microsoft Azure AI Gallery – Gallery of models and templates you can deploy via Azure, including many open‑source models.
General LLM leaderboards
These leaderboards evaluate and compare large language models (LLMs) based on different benchmarks and criteria.
- The Vellum LLM Leaderboard - Tracks recent commercial and open‑source models released after 2024, comparing reasoning benchmarks, context length, and cost; updated frequently and focused on modern tests like GPQA and AIME.
- LM Arena Leaderboard - LM Arena is a platform for evaluating and comparing large language models (LLMs) across various tasks and datasets.
- AI Benchmark - A comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the performance of AI models, including large language models (LLMs), on various tasks and datasets.
- LLM-Stats – Live rankings that emphasize real‑time updates, context window, speed, pricing, and API‑oriented metrics.
- Scale AI SEAL Leaderboard – Expert‑run evaluations of frontier models emphasizing robustness and edge‑case behavior.
- Lambda LLM Benchmarks Leaderboard – Central page comparing leading models like Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek on key benchmarks (e.g., MMLU Pro, GPQA, code tests).