# Use‑case category Best‑fit models* Representative individual use‑cases
1 Legal / Regulatory analysis & compliance OpenAI o3, OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Microsoft MAI‑DS‑R1 Complex M&A / patent due‑diligence (o3)Whole‑corpus statute & case‑law Q‑A (GPT‑4.1)
Reg‑compliance memos with visible reasoning (Claude 3.7)
Sovereign‑cloud legal‑finance copilot (MAI‑DS‑R1)
Cross‑jurisdiction policy gap checks (Claude 3.7)
2 Enterprise RAG / Knowledge bases OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Microsoft MAI‑DS‑R1,
Meta Llama 4 Maverick,
Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1,
Cohere Command A 1 M‑token corp‑knowledge chat (GPT‑4.1)Self‑hosted uncensored RAG (MAI‑DS‑R1)
Multimodal RAG across docs + images + video (Llama 4 Maverick)
On‑prem classified chatbots (Mistral Small 3.1)
Log‑analytics RAG (Command A)
3 Coding & Software‑engineering assistants OpenAI o4‑mini,
OpenAI o3, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet,
Meta Llama 4 Maverick,
Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1,
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3 IDE coding copilot (o4‑mini)Production root‑cause analysis (o3)Explain‑as‑you‑go refactors (Claude 3.7)Large‑scale OSS code generation (Llama 4 Maverick)Pipeline code‑gen (Mistral Small 3.1)Theorem‑proof snippets (DeepSeek V3)
4 Customer‑support chat & IT help‑desk OpenAI o4‑mini,
Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1,
Cohere Command A,
Alibaba Cloud Qwen 2.5 Omni 24 × 7 multilingual CX chat (o4‑mini)
IT help‑desk wizard (o4‑mini)
Slack‑style internal Q&A bot (Mistral Small 3.1)
Cross‑lingual ticket search (Command A)
Voice + image CX agent (Qwen Omni)
5 Multimodal Vision & Captioning OpenAI o3,
Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni‑7B,
Meta Llama 4 Scout,
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro,
NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Vision‑guided QA for robotics (o3)
Cross‑language video voice‑over (Qwen Omni)
Real‑time subtitling & AR/VR captioning (Llama 4 Scout)
Interactive product‑demo video captioning (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
Live stream caption & translation (Nemotron)
6 Meeting transcription & A/V summaries Cohere Command A,
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro,
OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet,
Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni Live transcript & action items (Command A),
Real‑time A/V summaries (Gemini 2.5 Pro),
Week‑long meeting memory (GPT‑4.1),
Explain‑as‑you‑go clarifications (Claude 3.7),
Dialect voice‑note transcription (Qwen Omni)
7 Robotics / Edge & IoT control NVIDIA Llama Nemotron,
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro,
OpenAI o3,
Meta Llama 4 Scout,
Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni Multi‑agent robotics loops (Nemotron)
IoT sensor‑fleet analytics (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
Vision‑guided assembly QA (o3)
On‑device drone inference (Llama 4 Scout)
Smart‑city sensor dashboards (Qwen Omni)
8 Scientific & Academic research support OpenAI o3,
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet,
Meta Llama 4 Maverick,
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3,
OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1 Multimodal research copilot (o3)
Peer‑review assistant (Claude 3.7)
University research helper (Llama 4 Maverick)
Automated theorem exploration (DeepSeek V3)
Literature Q‑A over full corpus (GPT‑4.1)
GPU‑light campus chatbot (Mistral Small 3.1)
9 Business analytics, BI & Supply‑chain Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro,
OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Cohere Command A,
OpenAI o3,
Meta Llama 4 Maverick,
NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Voice‑to‑dashboard BI (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
Supply‑chain scenario builder (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
Whole‑corpus analytics Q‑A (GPT‑4.1)
High‑stakes strategy memos (o3)
CPU‑only data notebooks (Llama 4 Maverick)
Real‑time manufacturing telemetry analytics (Nemotron)
Log analytics & RAG (Command A)
10 Social‑media monitoring & Content moderation xAI Grok 3,
Meta Llama 4 Scout,
Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni Real‑time trend monitoring (Grok 3)
Compliance‑news summaries (Grok 3)
Market‑sentiment briefs (Grok 3)
Content‑moderation pipelines (Llama 4 Scout)
Multilingual moderation & tagging (Qwen Omni)
11 Market & Sentiment intelligence xAI Grok 3,
OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Cohere Command A,
Microsoft MAI‑DS‑R1,
OpenAI o3 Market‑sentiment dashboards (Grok 3)
Social‑trend analytics (Grok 3)
Financial corpus Q‑A (GPT‑4.1)
Feedback clustering & summarisation (Command A)
Uncensored analyst chatbot (MAI‑DS‑R1)
Cross‑asset risk commentary generator (o3)
12 Education & Tutoring OpenAI o4‑mini,
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro,
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet,
Meta Llama 4 Maverick,
Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni Interactive STEM tutor (o4‑mini)
Multimodal lesson‑plan creator (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
Micro‑lectures with reasoning (Claude 3.7)
University assistant (Llama 4 Maverick)
Language & travel tutor that “sees & speaks” (Qwen Omni)
13 AR / VR asset generation & Captioning Meta Llama 4 Scout,
Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni,
OpenAI o3,
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro,
NVIDIA Llama Nemotron AR/VR asset captioning & alt‑text (Llama 4 Scout)
Multilingual asset generation (Qwen Omni)
Vision‑based QA for AR components (o3)
Interactive VR lesson content (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
NPC dialogue & behaviour (Nemotron)
14 Game‑AI & Simulation NVIDIA Llama Nemotron,
OpenAI o4‑mini,
Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1,
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3,
OpenAI GPT‑4.1 NPC conversational engine (Nemotron)
Prototype boiler‑plate code (o4‑mini)
MVP back‑end generation (Mistral Small 3.1)
Simulation script builder (DeepSeek V3)
Script continuity & lore checks (GPT‑4.1)
15 Data‑engineering / Pipeline automation Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1,
Cohere Command A,
OpenAI o4‑mini,
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3,
Meta Llama 4 Maverick Pipeline code‑gen & refactor (Mistral Small 3.1)
Auto‑generation of API docs (Command A)
Micro‑service scaffolding (o4‑mini)
Quantum‑sim workflow scripts (DeepSeek V3)
Multimodal pipeline orchestration (Llama 4 Maverick)
16 E‑commerce tagging & Localisation Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni,
OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Cohere Command A,
OpenAI o4‑mini,
Meta Llama 4 Scout Multilingual product tagging (Qwen Omni)
Video voice‑overs for listings (Qwen Omni)
Global employee handbooks (GPT‑4.1)
Cross‑lingual semantic search of reviews (Command A)
Marketplace support chat (o4‑mini)
Listing content moderation (Llama 4 Scout)
17 Smart‑city / Sensor monitoring Alibaba Cloud Qwen Omni,
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro,
NVIDIA Llama Nemotron,
Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1,
OpenAI o3 Smart‑city sensor dashboards (Qwen Omni)
IoT fleet analytics (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
Traffic‑signal robotics loops (Nemotron)
Maintenance Q‑A bot (Mistral Small 3.1)
Vision‑based infrastructure QA (o3)
18 Quantum / Advanced‑math simulation DeepSeek DeepSeek V3,
OpenAI GPT‑4.1,
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet,
Microsoft MAI‑DS‑R1,
OpenAI o3 Quantum‑mechanics sim scripts (DeepSeek V3)
Equation Q‑A across literature (GPT‑4.1)
Step‑by‑step proof explanations (Claude 3.7)
Uncensored exploration of cutting‑edge papers (MAI‑DS‑R1)
Multimodal hard‑science R&D copilot (o3)
Category Provider Model Release Date Context Length Key Strengths Access Type Use Cases
Agent‑based & Multimodal OpenAI GPT‑4o Apr 2025 128 K Text + vision + audio, low latency, cost‑effective Proprietary Agent apps, multimodal assistants, real‑time reasoning, customer support
Meta LLaMA 4 Maverick Apr 2025 1 M tokens MoE‑driven, multimodal, balanced throughput Open‑weight General assistants, image + text understanding, enterprise chatbots
Enterprise & Specialised Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet Feb 2025 200 K Hybrid reasoning, extended “thinking” mode, coding & analytical boost Proprietary Complex problem-solving, SW engineering, legal/financial docs
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet Jun 2024 200 K Enhanced reasoning, faster code proficiency Proprietary Multistep workflows, content creation, data analysis, customer‑facing support
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus Mar 2024 200 K Long context, deep reasoning, safety‑aligned Proprietary Legal contracts, enterprise reports, long‑form analysis, governance‑sensitive workloads
Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet Mar 2024 200 K Balanced speed + reasoning, reliable Freemium via API Enterprise copilots, customer bots, research, general AI workloads
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro Feb 2024 1 M tokens Extremely long context, multimodal, GCP‑native Proprietary Enterprise copilots, transcription, media analysis, coding agents, embedded workflows
Lightweight & On‑Device OpenAI o3‑mini Apr 2025 ~8 K Tiny, fast, low‑cost, instruction‑tuned Open‑weight (implied) On‑device agents, mobile apps, rapid prototyping, basic RAG pipelines
Meta LLaMA 3 (8B) Apr 2024 128 K Compact, edge‑friendly Open‑source Mobile assistants, IoT copilots, fast inference
Research, Fine‑Tuning & RAG Meta LLaMA 4 Scout Apr 2025 10 M tokens MoE‑driven, ultra‑long context, multimodal Open‑weight Multi‑doc summarization, personalized assistants, codebase reasoning
Meta LLaMA 4 Behemoth In training TBD 2T params, cutting‑edge reasoning & coding Not yet released Future model training, advanced STEM research
Meta LLaMA 3 (70B) Apr 2024 128 K Open, multilingual, competitive reasoning Open‑source RAG backends, internal tools, cost‑effective deployments
Code & Analytical Tasks DeepSeek DeepSeek V3 Dec 2024 128 K Top in coding/math performance, open‑source Open‑weight Developer assistants, scientific research, math‑intensive tasks
Regional & Device‑Control Alibaba Qwen2.5‑VL Jan 2025 ~128 K Multimodal + device control, Chinese/Asian language optimized Open‑weight Smart agents for Asia, image‑to‑text, desktop/mobile automation, virtual assistants