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What a "Model" Is, and What the Names on the Menu Mean

Base, instruct, reasoning, small, frontier, open-weight, distilled. A guide to the words on the model picker and what they change for you.

Pooja Thirupuranthakam · Jul 29, 2025 2 min 11