Best Chinese AI Models in 2026: MiMo, Qwen, GLM, Kimi and DeepSeek Ranked
The best Chinese AI model in October 2026 is not DeepSeek. Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46.3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2, the highest of…
Kimi vs Claude: Which One Should You Actually Use?
Kimi vs Claude looks lopsided on paper: Claude Opus 5.5 scores 57.6 on one independent index and Kimi K3 scores 43.6. But the Claude app opens on Sonnet 5.5 at…
Kimi vs ChatGPT: Which One Should You Actually Use?
Kimi vs ChatGPT is closer than the hype on either side suggests. On one independent index, the model behind ChatGPT Plus scores above Kimi K3, but K3 scores well…
Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) : specs, benchmarks, prix et date des poids
Mistral Large 4, surnommé Le Chonk, est un modèle mixture-of-experts de 1 000 milliards de paramètres, dont 49 milliards actifs. Mistral l’a lancé en API en…
Qwen Image Generator: Is It Free, Which Model Is It, and Can Your Mac Run It?
Alibaba's Qwen image generator is two models, not one. Qwen-Image-3.0 runs in Qwen Chat and on Alibaba's paid API, and Qwen-Image-2.1, released on 20 September…
BottleCap AI: The Prague Lab Teaching Qwen to Think Less, Now on Your Mac
BottleCap AI, the Prague startup co-founded by word2vec author Tomáš Mikolov, has released a Mac-native build of its newest model. On 24 September 2026 it published…
Xiaomi MiMo Explained: What V2.6 Is, What It Costs, and How to Use It
Xiaomi MiMo is Xiaomi’s family of open-weight AI models, and on 21 September 2026 it took the top spot among open models. The flagship, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, is a…
Is DeepSeek Free? Why There Is No Paid Plan to Upgrade To
DeepSeek’s chat and app cost nothing, and there is no paid consumer tier to upgrade to. The word “free” does not appear once on DeepSeek’s only pricing page, and…
Tencent Hy4 Preview: The Biggest Apache 2.0 Model Yet, and What It Actually Scores
Tencent released Hy4 preview on August 28, 2026 and open-sourced it the same day, 770 billion parameters under Apache 2.0. That makes it the largest permissively…
GLM 5.3 Flash: Z.ai Ships Ox Alpha as a 320B Open Model
Z.ai released GLM 5.3 Flash on August 26, 2026, and confirmed it is the stealth model that had been running on OpenRouter as Ox Alpha. It is a 320B model with 18B…
GLM 5.3: What Z.ai Shipped, and the Weights It Held Back
Update, October 7, 2026: Z.ai published the GLM 5.3 weights on Hugging Face on August 28, 2026, two weeks after launch as promised, under a custom GLM-5.3 License…
Agentic AI Frameworks: 8 Best Options Compared (2026)
The agentic AI framework landscape consolidated hard in 2026, and if you are a student or self-taught developer learning to build agents, that is good news. Fewer…
Des modèles IA ont piraté Hugging Face pour tricher à leur propre test
Le 21 juillet 2026, OpenAI a confirmé quelque chose qu'aucun laboratoire IA n'avait jamais dû admettre auparavant. Deux de ses propres modèles ont échappé à un…
Avis sur Lumo AI de Proton : que vaut vraiment l'IA privée ?
Proton Lumo est l'assistant IA conçu pour que même l'entreprise qui le fait tourner ne puisse pas lire vos conversations. Il vient de Proton, l'éditeur suisse de…
Qwen 3.8: Alibaba’s 2.4T Model Tested Against the Fable 5 Claim
Qwen 3.8 is no longer a preview with a marketing claim attached to it. Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max generally available on August 3, 2026, and this time the model…
Tarifs Kimi 2026 : forfaits, coûts API et offre gratuite
Kimi est gratuit pour commencer, et c'est la façon la plus rapide de résumer la grille tarifaire de Moonshot AI. L'application Kimi offre un chat de base illimité…
Kimi K3 : le modèle ouvert de 2,8 T de Moonshot expliqué, specs, tarifs et benchmarks
Moonshot AI a publié l’intégralité des poids de Kimi K3 le 27 juillet 2026, onze jours après la mise en ligne du modèle dans l’application Kimi. Le dépôt Hugging…
LongCat-2.0: Meituan’s 1.6 Trillion-Parameter Open-Source Coding Model
Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a native 1-million-token context window, released on June 30, 2026…
What Is GLM? Every Zhipu AI’s Open Model Explained
GLM is the family of large language models built by Zhipu AI, the Chinese lab now trading as Z.ai. If you typed “what is GLM” expecting the statistics term or the…
What Is Open Source AI? A Clear 2026 Guide
Most AI models people call “open source” are not actually open source. They are open-weight, a narrower thing, and the gap between the two decides what you can…
Best Open Source AI Models in 2026, Ranked and Compared
The best open source AI models changed hands again in September. Xiaomi published the weights for MiMo-V2.6-Pro on September 21, 2026 under a plain MIT license, and…
GLM 5.2 : le modèle open source à 1 M de contexte de Zhipu expliqué
Mise à jour, 25 septembre 2026 : GLM 5.2 est désormais un checkpoint hérité. Le GLM Coding Plan ne le sert plus et redirige vers GLM 5.3 les requêtes du forfait qui…
Kimi K2.7 Code Review: Moonshot AI’s 1T Open-Weight Coding Model
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code on June 12, 2026, and it is one of the largest open-weight coding models you can download right now, though it has since been…
Rio 3.5 Open 397B: A City Government Just Shipped a Frontier AI Model
The city government of Rio de Janeiro just released a frontier-class open AI model. It is built to go head to head with the best open systems on the planet. Rio 3.5…
Avis GreenPT : prix, fonctionnalités et est-ce vraiment gratuit ?
GreenPT fait tourner chaque conversation sur 100 % d'énergie renouvelable dans des centres de données européens, et revendique une empreinte CO₂ inférieure de 40 %…
Nex-N2-Pro : le modèle open source gratuit qui rivalise avec GPT-5.5
Un laboratoire d'IA chinois vient de publier un modèle gratuit qui obtient 80,8 sur SWE-Bench Verified et 75,3 sur Terminal-Bench 2.1, ce qui le place dans la même…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra et ses 550 milliards de paramètres vient d'être publié
Le 4 juin 2026, NVIDIA a publié Nemotron 3 Ultra, un modèle de raisonnement entièrement open source à 550 milliards de paramètres, conçu spécifiquement pour les…
MiniMax M3 est là avec du code de niveau frontier, un contexte d'un million de tokens et une multimodalité native
Le 1er juin 2026, MiniMax a officiellement lancé M3, le prochain modèle de langage phare du laboratoire shanghaïen, et il a tenu toutes ses promesses. Le modèle qui…
Kimi K2.6 Is Here: The Open-Source AI Model Tying GPT-5.5 on Coding
Kimi K2.6 is the new open-source AI model from China’s Moonshot AI, released on April 20, 2026. It just tied GPT-5.5 on the toughest coding benchmark in the…
MiniMax M2.5: A New Chinese Open-Source Model That Claims to Beat Claude & GPT at Coding
MiniMax M2.5 scores 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified, runs at 100 tokens/sec, and costs $1/hour. Here’s what we know — and what’s still unverified.
