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Ant Group's inclusionAI released a 100B non-embedding-parameter MoE diffusion model adding Levenshtein Editing, explicit DELETE and INSERT control tokens, so diffusion decoding can restructure a sequence and open insertion slots during parallel generation instead of only unmasking in place. That editing capability is what makes multi-turn tool use and error correction tractable for a diffusion model. Trained with L-EBPO using agentic environment rewards; 128K context via Block Routing. They evaluated the SWE-bench series using the Claude Code scaffold, which is its own small signal. (Hugging Face)
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Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on April 22. Dense architecture. Open weights. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, within 3.7 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On SkillsBench, it scores 48.2% versus its own 397B MoE predecessor's 30.0%. That's a 77% improvement with 14.8x fewer parameters. Let...
Z.ai's GLM-5 (744B/40B MoE, MIT license, 205K context) is free on NVIDIA NIM at 40 req/min with no credit card. Benchmarks: 77.8% SWE-bench Verified (highest open-source), 56.2 Terminal-Bench 2.0 (approaching Opus 4.5's 59.3). Trained entirely on 100,000 Huawei Ascend chips. Y...
The 397B MoE scores 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Terminus-2) against Claude Opus 4.8's 85.0, 86.0 on SWE-bench Verified, and 92.8 on GPQA Diamond. Hugging Face But it trails badly on the harder agentic rows: 13.5 versus 21.1 on Frontier-Bench v0.1, 59.5 versus 69.7 on NL2Repo....
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 in Standard, Thinking, and Pro variants. Headline capabilities: native computer-use (75.0% on OSWorld-Verified, surpassing human 72.4%), 1M token context, and first-ever "compaction" support for longer agent trajectories. The Tool Search API is the buil...
Three moves, two days, no coordination between them. August 10–11: GitHub shipped Ollama as a BYOK provider inside Copilot for JetBrains (GitHub Changelog). Unsloth released Unsloth Desktop with a command literally named unsloth start claude, which points Claude Code and Codex...
This is the other half of the Fable 5 story, so read them together. While the best coding model in the world is uncallable, an open-weight one quietly posted frontier-adjacent numbers. Per Tom's Hardware, independent benchmarks for the MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (744B params, 40B ac...
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