Central Asia, Eastern Europe and MENA Agents and LLMS initial list (JAN 2025)

AI Agent / LLM	Organization / Developer	Location (Origin)	Highlights / Notes	References
OpenAI GPT Series (GPT-4, ChatGPT)	OpenAI	San Francisco, USA	Highly influential general-purpose LLM; widely used for text generation, language understanding, and creative content.	OpenAI
Claude	Anthropic	San Francisco, USA	AI assistant focused on safety and “Constitutional AI,” designed to reduce harmful or biased outputs.	Anthropic AI
Llama 2	Meta AI (Meta Platforms)	Menlo Park (near SF), USA	Community-oriented LLM; released under a license that allows academic/commercial use.	Llama 2 Announcement
Gopher / Chinchilla	DeepMind	London, UK	Research-focused LLMs exploring large-scale language model efficiency and scaling; published influential papers on model performance.	DeepMind Publications
StableLM	Stability AI	London, UK	Open-source language model in the “Stable” brand tradition, emphasizing community-driven, open development.	StableLM Announcement
Turkish BERT / Turkish GPT-like Models	Multiple academic labs (e.g., Boğaziçi Univ.)	Istanbul, Turkey	Specialized for Turkish NLP tasks (sentiment analysis, question answering, classification, summarization); widely used in Turkish research communities.	Boğaziçi NLP Group
Bote AI (Prototype / Startup)	Istanbul Startup Ecosystem	Istanbul, Turkey	Early-stage chatbot for Turkish-speaking users; focuses on Q&A, e-commerce, and local business support. Public info is still limited.	Webrazzi (Local Tech Updates)
Kaz-LLM	Nazarbayev University Research Labs	Astana, Kazakhstan	Large language model specifically tailored for Kazakh; supports tasks like translation, summarization; helps bridge AI in Central Asia.	Kaz-LLM Documentation
Tajik LLMs Portfolio	Re-Skill AI	Dushanbe, Tajikistan	Ranging from BERT based trained from scratch, GPT2 and higher, and LLAMas continually pre-trained with Tajik text and finetuned.	Tajik LLMS collection
Falcon LLM	Technology Innovation Institute (TII)	Abu Dhabi, UAE (MENA region)	Open-source LLM focusing on efficiency and multilingual capabilities; strong performance in popular benchmarks.	Falcon LLM Homepage Falcon LLM GitHub
Yandex GPT, GigaChat & T-Lite	Yandex, Sberbank & T-Tech	Moscow, Russia	Russian language LLMS	T-Tech (former Tinkoff)
Baidu ERNIE Bot	Baidu	Beijing, China	A Chinese LLM built for Mandarin; powers search and productivity tools; integrates domain-specific knowledge (finance, healthcare, etc.).	Baidu ERNIE
Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen	Alibaba Cloud	Hangzhou, China	Large language model aimed at enterprise apps; supports Chinese and English with focus on e-commerce, finance, and cloud services.	Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen Overview
ChatGLM	Zhipu AI & Tsinghua University	Beijing, China	Bilingual (Chinese-English) conversational model; highlights robust NLP in both languages.	ChatGLM GitHub

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