Best Foundation Models in Asia
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What are Foundation Models in Asia?
Foundation models are large-scale artificial intelligence models trained on vast and diverse datasets that serve as the underlying technology for a wide range of AI applications. These models learn general-purpose capabilities such as language understanding, reasoning, image recognition, code generation, speech processing, and multimodal comprehension, allowing them to be adapted or fine-tuned for specific tasks across industries. Foundation models power applications including chatbots, AI agents, search, content generation, software development, scientific research, and business automation. Many are available through cloud APIs, open-source distributions, and enterprise AI platforms, supporting custom model development, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and domain-specific optimization. By providing reusable, general-purpose intelligence, foundation models enable organizations to accelerate AI development, reduce implementation costs, and build sophisticated AI-powered applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Foundation Models in Asia currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Nano is a compact, open large language model in NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 family, designed for efficient agentic reasoning, conversational AI, and coding tasks. It uses a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts Mamba-Transformer architecture that activates only a small subset of parameters per token, enabling low-latency inference while maintaining strong accuracy and reasoning performance. It has approximately 31.6 billion total parameters with around 3.2 billion active (3.6 billion including embeddings), allowing it to achieve higher accuracy than previous Nemotron 2 Nano while using less computation per forward pass. Nemotron 3 Nano supports long-context processing of up to one million tokens, enabling it to handle large documents, multi-step workflows, and extended reasoning chains in a single pass. It is designed for high-throughput, real-time execution, excelling in multi-turn conversations, tool calling, and agent-based workflows where tasks require planning, reasoning, and more. -
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Seed2.1 Pro
ByteDance
Seed2.1 Pro is a next-generation AI productivity model built to handle complex, real-world work across general agents, code engineering, and multimodal understanding. It reliably executes multi-step tasks for high-value office work and everyday consultation, including project planning, file processing, research, tool use, spreadsheet analysis, lesson-plan slide generation, and industry report creation across tools and environments. In software development workflows, Seed2.1 Pro strengthens end-to-end delivery by improving requirement understanding, architecture design, coding, debugging, implementation, and validation. Its agent capabilities are designed to make steady progress on difficult tasks and return practical, verifiable results rather than isolated responses. The model also advances knowledge, reasoning, visual understanding, spatial reasoning, and long-context processing, giving agents a stronger foundation for complex decision-making and execution. -
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Llama 3
Meta
We’ve integrated Llama 3 into Meta AI, our intelligent assistant, that expands the ways people can get things done, create and connect with Meta AI. You can see first-hand the performance of Llama 3 by using Meta AI for coding tasks and problem solving. Whether you're developing agents, or other AI-powered applications, Llama 3 in both 8B and 70B will offer the capabilities and flexibility you need to develop your ideas. With the release of Llama 3, we’ve updated the Responsible Use Guide (RUG) to provide the most comprehensive information on responsible development with LLMs. Our system-centric approach includes updates to our trust and safety tools with Llama Guard 2, optimized to support the newly announced taxonomy published by MLCommons expanding its coverage to a more comprehensive set of safety categories, code shield, and Cybersec Eval 2.Starting Price: Free -
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NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Cosmos is a developer-first platform of state-of-the-art generative World Foundation Models (WFMs), advanced video tokenizers, guardrails, and an accelerated data processing and curation pipeline designed to supercharge physical AI development. It enables developers working on autonomous vehicles, robotics, and video analytics AI agents to generate photorealistic, physics-aware synthetic video data, trained on an immense dataset including 20 million hours of real-world and simulated video, to rapidly simulate future scenarios, train world models, and fine‑tune custom behaviors. It includes three core WFM types; Cosmos Predict, capable of generating up to 30 seconds of continuous video from multimodal inputs; Cosmos Transfer, which adapts simulations across environments and lighting for versatile domain augmentation; and Cosmos Reason, a vision-language model that applies structured reasoning to interpret spatial-temporal data for planning and decision-making.Starting Price: Free -
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MiMo-V2-Flash
Xiaomi Technology
MiMo-V2-Flash is an open weight large language model developed by Xiaomi based on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that blends high performance with inference efficiency. It has 309 billion total parameters but activates only 15 billion active parameters per inference, letting it balance reasoning quality and computational efficiency while supporting extremely long context handling, for tasks like long-document understanding, code generation, and multi-step agent workflows. It incorporates a hybrid attention mechanism that interleaves sliding-window and global attention layers to reduce memory usage and maintain long-range comprehension, and it uses a Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) design that accelerates inference by processing batches of tokens in parallel. MiMo-V2-Flash delivers very fast generation speeds (up to ~150 tokens/second) and is optimized for agentic applications requiring sustained reasoning and multi-turn interactions.Starting Price: Free -
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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an open, omni-modal foundation model designed to unify perception and reasoning across text, images, audio, video, and documents within a single efficient architecture. It eliminates the need for separate models for each modality, reducing inference latency, orchestration complexity, and cost while maintaining consistent cross-modal context. It is purpose-built for agentic AI systems, acting as a perception and context sub-agent that gives larger AI agents the ability to “see, hear, and read” in real time across screens, recordings, and structured or unstructured data. It supports advanced multimodal reasoning tasks such as document understanding, speech recognition, long audio-video analysis, and computer-use workflows, enabling agents to interpret dynamic interfaces and complex environments. Built with a hybrid architecture optimized for long context and throughput, it can process large inputs like multi-page documents.Starting Price: Free -
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Higgsfield Soul 2.0
Higgsfield
Higgsfield Soul 2.0 is a foundation AI image generation model built for creative, fashion-aware, culture-native visual production. It is designed specifically for aesthetics, producing realistic images with “taste built into every image” and outputs that feel photographed rather than artificially generated. It enables users to generate visuals from either text prompts or reference images, with the model interpreting composition, lighting, styling cues, and mood to deliver editorial-quality results. Soul 2.0 includes curated presets that act as visual anchors, allowing creators to establish mood and style instantly without complex prompt engineering. A key component is Soul ID, a personalization layer that lets users train a consistent digital character from their own photos and reuse that identity across different scenes, poses, and lighting setups.Starting Price: $9 per month -
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NVIDIA Llama Nemotron
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Llama Nemotron is a family of advanced language models optimized for reasoning and a diverse set of agentic AI tasks. These models excel in graduate-level scientific reasoning, advanced mathematics, coding, instruction following, and tool calls. Designed for deployment across various platforms, from data centers to PCs, they offer the flexibility to toggle reasoning capabilities on or off, reducing inference costs when deep reasoning isn't required. The Llama Nemotron family includes models tailored for different deployment needs. Built upon Llama models and enhanced by NVIDIA through post-training, these models demonstrate improved accuracy, up to 20% over base models, and optimized inference speeds, achieving up to five times the performance of other leading open reasoning models. This efficiency enables handling more complex reasoning tasks, enhances decision-making capabilities, and reduces operational costs for enterprises. -
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Amazon Nova Act
Amazon
Amazon Nova Act is an AI model designed to perform actions within web browsers, enabling the development of agents capable of completing tasks such as submitting out-of-office requests, scheduling calendar events, and setting up 'away from office' emails. Unlike traditional large language models that primarily generate natural language responses, Nova Act focuses on executing tasks in digital environments. The Nova Act SDK allows developers to decompose complex workflows into reliable atomic commands (e.g., search, checkout, answer questions about the screen) and incorporate detailed instructions where necessary. It also supports API calls and direct browser manipulation through Playwright to enhance reliability. Developers can integrate Python code, including tests, breakpoints, asserts, or thread pools for parallelization, to manage web page load times effectively. -
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Qwen3-Omni
Alibaba
Qwen3-Omni is a natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation model that processes text, images, audio, and video and delivers real-time streaming responses in text and natural speech. It uses a Thinker-Talker architecture with a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design, early text-first pretraining, and mixed multimodal training to support strong performance across all modalities without sacrificing text or image quality. The model supports 119 text languages, 19 speech input languages, and 10 speech output languages. It achieves state-of-the-art results: across 36 audio and audio-visual benchmarks, it hits open-source SOTA on 32 and overall SOTA on 22, outperforming or matching strong closed-source models such as Gemini-2.5 Pro and GPT-4o. To reduce latency, especially in audio/video streaming, Talker predicts discrete speech codecs via a multi-codebook scheme and replaces heavier diffusion approaches. -
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier model, designed to excel in long-horizon coding, agentic workflows, and intensive computer use while maintaining safety and alignment. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark (for software engineering) and leads on OSWorld (a computer use benchmark), with the ability to sustain focus over 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. The model introduces improvements in tool handling, memory management, and context processing, enabling more sophisticated reasoning, better domain understanding (from finance and law to STEM), and deeper code comprehension. It supports context editing and memory tools to sustain long conversations or multi-agent tasks, and allows code execution and file creation within Claude apps. Sonnet 4.5 is deployed at AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3), with classifiers protecting against inputs or outputs tied to risky domains, and includes mitigations against prompt injection. -
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Amazon Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
Nova 2 Lite is a lightweight, high-speed reasoning model designed to handle everyday AI workloads across text, images, and video. It can generate clear, context-aware responses and lets users fine-tune how much internal reasoning the model performs before producing an answer. This adjustable “thinking depth” gives teams the flexibility to choose faster replies or more detailed problem-solving depending on the task. It stands out for customer service bots, automated document handling, and general business workflow support. Nova 2 Lite delivers strong performance across standard evaluation tests. It performs on par with or better than comparable compact models in most benchmark categories, demonstrating reliable comprehension and response quality. Its strengths include interpreting complex documents, pulling accurate insights from video content, generating usable code, and delivering grounded answers based on provided information. -
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Nemotron 3
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 is a family of open large language models developed by NVIDIA to power advanced reasoning, conversational AI, and autonomous AI agents. The Nemotron 3 series includes three models designed for different scales of AI workloads while maintaining high efficiency and accuracy. These models focus on “agentic AI” capabilities, meaning they can perform multi-step reasoning, coordinate with tools, and operate as components within multi-agent systems used in automation, research, and enterprise applications. The architecture uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts (MoE) design combined with transformer-based techniques, allowing the model to activate only a subset of parameters for each task, which improves performance while reducing computational cost. Nemotron 3 models are built to deliver strong reasoning, conversational, and planning abilities while maintaining high throughput for large-scale deployment. -
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Nemotron 3 Super
NVIDIA
Nemotron-3 Super is part of NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 family of open models designed to enable advanced agentic AI systems that can reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows across complex environments. The model introduces a hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts architecture that combines the efficiency of state-space Mamba layers with the contextual understanding of transformer attention, allowing it to process long sequences and complex reasoning tasks with high accuracy and throughput. This architecture activates only a subset of model parameters for each token, improving computational efficiency while maintaining strong reasoning capabilities and enabling scalable inference for large workloads. Nemotron-3 Super contains roughly 120 billion parameters with around 12 billion active during inference, accelerating multi-step reasoning and collaborative agent interactions across large contexts. -
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Nemotron 3 Nano
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Nano is the smallest model in the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family, built for agentic AI applications with strong reasoning, conversational ability, and cost-efficient inference. It is a hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts model with 3.2 billion active parameters, 3.6 billion including embeddings, and 31.6 billion total parameters. NVIDIA describes it as more accurate than the previous Nemotron 2 Nano while activating less than half of the parameters per forward pass, improving efficiency without sacrificing performance. The model is positioned as more accurate than GPT-OSS-20B and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 on popular benchmarks across different categories. On an 8K input and 16K output setting using a single H200, it delivers inference throughput 3.3 times higher than Qwen3-30B-A3B and 2.2 times higher than GPT-OSS-20B. Nemotron 3 Nano supports context lengths up to 1 million tokens and is reported to outperform GPT-OSS-20B and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. -
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Seed2.1 Turbo
ByteDance
Seed2.1 Turbo is a next-generation AI productivity model designed to execute complex real-world tasks with strong general-agent, coding, and multimodal capabilities. It goes beyond one-off answers by carrying multi-step workflows toward defined goals and producing practical, usable outcomes across tools, environments, and interaction modes. For professional work and everyday consultation, it can support project planning, document and file processing, information analysis, solution design, content planning, tool use, and results consolidation. It also handles teaching, office, and research scenarios such as generating lesson-plan slides, analyzing complex spreadsheets, and producing industry reports. In software engineering, Seed2.1 Turbo supports end-to-end delivery across requirement analysis, feature implementation, bug fixing, environment setup, terminal usage, and result validation, while understanding codebase architecture, dependencies, and business logic to coordinate changes. -
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TimesFM-3
Google
TimesFM-3 is a state-of-the-art time series foundation model designed for highly accurate multivariate forecasting in a single forward pass. The 330 million parameter model is pre-trained on a real-world and synthetic time-series corpus comprising more than 1 trillion time points, building on the efficiency and zero-shot generalization of earlier TimesFM models. It can jointly predict multiple coevolving time series and capture dependencies that improve accuracy without task-specific fine-tuning. The model supports multiple targets with point and quantile forecasts, past covariates that are known only historically, and past-future dynamic covariates such as planned promotions, holidays, or weather forecasts. TimesFM-3 uses a decoder-only transformer architecture, processes contiguous data in patches of 32 time steps, and applies alternating causal temporal attention and full variate attention to combine patterns across time and related series. -
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Amazon Nova 2 Omni
Amazon
Nova 2 Omni is a fully unified multimodal reasoning and generation model capable of understanding and producing content across text, images, video, and speech. It can take in extremely large inputs, ranging from hundreds of thousands of words to hours of audio and lengthy videos, while maintaining coherent analysis across formats. This allows it to digest full product catalogs, long-form documents, customer testimonials, and complete video libraries all at the same time, giving teams a single system that replaces the need for multiple specialized models. With its ability to handle mixed media in one workflow, Nova 2 Omni opens new possibilities for creative and operational automation. A marketing team, for example, can feed in product specs, brand guidelines, reference images, and video content and instantly generate an entire campaign, including messaging, social content, and visuals, in one pass.
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