A living collection
The AI Terrarium. Every model, alive.
Each creature is a real model, grown from its card. New releases hatch from eggs, retired ones rest as fossils in the rock of their year, and families walk behind their newest generation. Adopt one and it will tell you what changed each time you visit.
Drag to explore · pinch or ⌘-scroll to zoom · tap a creature · tap an egg to hatch it
Field guide
What a model does decides what it becomes. Shown here: the best-rated of each kind.
Walker 538
Talks, writes, and reasons. Roams the meadow in families.
Pictured: GPT-6 Astra
Paintwing 34
Paints pictures from words. Flutters over the flowers.
Pictured: gpt-image-2
Reelfly 23
Films moving pictures. Darts about too fast to follow.
Pictured: Gemini Omni Flash Preview
Crystal golem 5
Builds 3D objects. Made of the shapes it makes.
Pictured: TRELLIS.2-4B
Songbird 28
Reads text aloud. Sings from the treetops.
Pictured: Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Chatterbird 9
Holds a live conversation. Never stops chattering.
Pictured: GPT-Realtime-2.1
Echobat 42
Writes down what it hears. Hangs by day, hunts sounds by night.
Pictured: VibeVoice-ASR
Memorycap 149
Turns text into coordinates. Its threads link the whole lab underground.
Pictured: bge-multilingual-gemma2
Sorter ant 30
Puts results in order. Marches in single file.
Pictured: llama-nemotron-rerank-vl-1b-v2
Watcher 45
Sees and labels what’s in a picture. Never blinks first.
Pictured: granite-vision-3.3-2b
Meaning beetle 68
Reads text into meaning. Scuttles under the leaves.
Pictured: Qwen2.5-Math-PRM-7B
Timesnail 17
Predicts what comes next in a series. Slow, patient, usually right.
Pictured: chronos-t5-large
Guardhog 6
Screens for harm. Spikes up at the first sign of trouble.
Pictured: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety
How a card becomes a creature
- Species
- The model’s type: chat models walk, image models fly on painted wings, embedding models grow as mushrooms whose threads link the lab underground.
- Size
- Its context window, or its parameter count for open models. Bigger memory, bigger creature.
- Pace
- Measured speed where Hugging Face has timed it; otherwise its bulk. Snails are slow on purpose.
- Crown
- Quality from public leaderboards: a gold crown for the top 10%, a silver halo for the top 25%.
- Features
- A glowing horn for reasoning, an antenna for tool use, big eyes for image input, ears for audio, and a song for speech output. Holo rares shimmer.
- Life
- The daily sync decides it. Last week’s releases arrive as eggs, retired models fossilize in the layer for the year they came out, and each new generation takes the lead of its family. Day and night follow your own clock.