Which AI is best in your language?
Plain-language picks for 7 languages, built only from public benchmarks. Updated monthly.
| Language | Top model | Top open-weight | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇳 Mandarin | Qwen3.8-Max-0902 (max) | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (max) | SuperCLUE General Leaderboard |
| 🇰🇷 Korean | Gemini 3.1 Pro (high) | – | Horangi 4 |
| 🇳🇴 Norwegian | gpt-6-astra | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | EuroEval |
| 🇩🇪 German | gpt-6-astra | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | EuroEval |
| 🇳🇱 Dutch | gpt-6-astra | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | EuroEval |
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | gpt-6-sol | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | EuroEval |
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash | EuroEval |
Benchmarks differ by language and are not comparable across rows. Methodology.
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