AUREX-OX · MODEL LABORATORY
RESEARCH CANDIDATES · UPDATED 2026-11-06
Global AI Model Research & Customization Program
Evaluating open and commercially adaptable AI technologies from leading international research ecosystems.
This is a research and customization candidate list. It is not a claim that these models have been downloaded, trained, fine-tuned or integrated. Only Qwen is an existing local experimentation baseline, and its live hosted connection remains unverified until demonstrated.
Statuses advance on evidence, never automatically.
Research Candidate
License Review
Evaluation Planned
Benchmarking
Customization Trial
Independently Verified
Approved for Deployment
The current candidate list.
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Qwen
Research Candidate
China · Alibaba Qwen team · specific version not yet verified
Existing local baseline, reasoning, coding, industrial document interpretation
- Customization method:
- Local experimentation baseline; RAG and parameter-efficient fine-tuning under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Existing local experimentation baseline — live connection unverifiedInitial experimentation priorityMistral / Ministral
Research Candidate
France · Mistral AI · specific version not yet verified
Enterprise customization, reasoning, efficient inference
- Customization method:
- RAG and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA) under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Initial experimentation priorityK2 Horizon
Research Candidate
United Arab Emirates · UAE research ecosystem · specific version not yet verified
Reasoning, research evaluation, compact-model experimentation
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Initial experimentation priorityFalcon-H1
Research Candidate
United Arab Emirates · Technology Innovation Institute · specific version not yet verified
Efficient hybrid-model testing and adaptation
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Initial experimentation priorityAIN / KITAB-Bench
Research Candidate
United Arab Emirates · UAE research ecosystem · specific version not yet verified
Multimodal document understanding and OCR evaluation
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
DeepSeek
Research Candidate
China · DeepSeek · specific version not yet verified
Advanced reasoning and model comparison
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Apertus
Research Candidate
Switzerland · Swiss AI research initiative · specific version not yet verified
Transparent and reproducible model research
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Selected permissively licensed open models
Research Candidate
United States · Various open research groups · specific version not yet verified
General-purpose and enterprise benchmark baselines
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
EXAONE
Research Candidate
South Korea · LG AI Research · specific version not yet verified
Industrial reasoning and multilingual evaluation
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Sakana AI research
Research Candidate
Japan · Sakana AI · specific version not yet verified
Experimental orchestration and model optimization
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
Sarvam
Research Candidate
India · Sarvam AI · specific version not yet verified
Multilingual and specialized language-model evaluation
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified
SEA-LION
Research Candidate
Singapore · AI Singapore · specific version not yet verified
Regional multilingual AI research
- Customization method:
- Under consideration
- Licensing review:
- Not completed
- Hardware requirements:
- Not yet assessed
- Independent benchmarks:
- None independently verified