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Models2026-09-16 · source-backed
The September 15 release adds audio-clip and multi-reference-image attachment for Minimax H3 video generation, video LoRA support, a runtime LoRA selector, and xhigh reasoning effort. The builder-relevant entries are --ffncpu mirroring llama.cpp's --n-cpu-ffn, --analyze now reading .safetensors metadata alongside .gguf, a fixed streaming race condition, and repaired tool calling for Kimi and DeepSeek V4 Flash.
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The August 16 release brings video generation and image-to-video through Minimax H3, full Qwen 3.8 and Muse Glimmer support with jinja templates and tool calling, and DSpark/Dflash speculative decoding (GitHub). Practical limits rose too: max images and audio attachments to 64...
Hugging Face published its Summer 2026 State of Open Models report on August 14, and one statistic in it went almost entirely unremarked in the coverage. By July 2026, agents rather than humans became the Hub's primary users. Claude Code alone accounted for 44.4% of all agent...
PortLLM claimed training-free, data-free transfer of LoRA patches onto updated base models, but only over short horizons and without theoretical grounding. This study runs 10 continual-pretraining steps on Mistral, Gemma, and Qwen and finds portability persists long-run, meani...
The September 11 fine-tuning expansion adds 18 open-weight models (GLM 5.3/5.2/5.1, DeepSeek-V4-Flash variants, Kimi K2.7-Code, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4) plus Expert LoRA, which puts adapters on the experts themselves. On invented-fact recall, expert-inclusive adapters reached 89...
The minute Fable 5 and Mythos 5 went dark for foreign nationals, r/LocalLLaMA found its answer. Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code is a 1T-parameter MoE (32B active, 384 experts), 256K context, shipped under a Modified MIT license. The headline number that's getting it pulled: 81.1...
Cursor shipped Composer 2 on March 19, marketing it as a proprietary in-house model. Within 24 hours, a developer found the API routing to kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast. The model powering the most-hyped coding tool update of the month was Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 with continued...
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