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Models2026-07-24 · source-backed
Ant Group's MoE at 124B total parameters, free for three weeks. Cheapest way to run a real eval against a Chinese-lab MoE without procurement. Benchmark it against your routing default before the window closes.
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Released August 6 by InclusionAI, it's a native hybrid-reasoning MoE with switchable Thinking and Instant modes, native function calling, prompt caching and 256K context, aimed at resource-constrained and fully local deployment (demoed against obsidian-cli over a local notes r...
The changelog offers Z.ai's open-weights coding model with a 1M-token context free via Blackbox AI on AI Gateway, default for new eve agents, switchable for existing ones with eve set --model zai/glm-5.2. Excludes Fast mode and the glm-5.2-fast variant. Separately, Gemini 3.7...
Announced July 23, Ling-3.0-flash is a hybrid-reasoning MoE with 124B total parameters activating 5.1B per token, roughly one-eighth the total and one-twelfth the active params of Ant Ling's 1T flagship, which the founder claims it matches or beats on most benchmarks. The arch...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
"Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking" argues Google quietly shelved 3.5 Pro, which industry chatter placed at roughly Opus 4.5 level, shipping Gemini 3.6 Flash as a bridge the authors call worse than Muse Spark 1.2, Grok 4.5, and tier-1 Chinese open-source models. The hard num...
Eval Suite 3 landed August 1 with 23 frontier-hard tasks from real merged open-source PRs, Docker-sandboxed, pass@1 with no retries or majority voting, each run annotated with actual dollar cost. Three tie at 91%: DeepSeek V4-Flash at medium effort ($2.04), Grok 4.5 at medium...
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