Tag: AI coding

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 legally do with a model, how much you can trust it, and whether anyone could ever rebuild it. In October 2024 the Open Source Initiative finally drew […]

ByteDance’s new Seed 2.1 Pro scored 1539 on Code Arena: Frontend, landing at #8 in the world and drawing level with Claude Opus 4.6. That is a remarkable result for a model that is not even publicly available yet, and it puts ByteDance into the same frontend tier as Anthropic and Z.ai for the first […]

The best open source AI models just closed most of the remaining gap to the closed frontier. Moonshot published the weights for Kimi K3 on July 27, 2026, and Artificial Analysis scores it 57 on its Intelligence Index against 61 for Claude Opus 5, the highest-scoring closed model on that board. GLM 5.2 posts a […]

You can learn Claude from zero to seriously useful in about a week of evenings, and you can do it without paying a cent. Anthropic runs its own free training portal, Anthropic Academy, where courses like Claude Code in Action (around 10 hours) and Claude Code 101 come with a free completion certificate you can […]

Update, July 28, 2026: GLM 5.2 is no longer the strongest open-weight model. Kimi K3 shipped its weights on July 27, 2026 and outscores it on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by 57 to 51. GLM 5.2 keeps a real advantage on licensing and hardware, and the benchmark section below has been rebased. GLM 5.2 […]

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 eclipsed in scale by Moonshot’s newer Kimi K3 flagship. It packs 1 trillion total parameters, activates 32 billion of them per token, runs a 256K-token […]

Google Antigravity lets you hand a coding task to a team of AI agents, walk away, and come back to finished work. Instead of typing code line by line with an autocomplete helper, you describe what you want, dispatch several autonomous agents at once, and review what they built. It is free to use during […]

A Chinese AI lab just released a free model that scores 80.8 on SWE-Bench Verified and 75.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, putting it in the same league as GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 on real coding work. It is called Nex-N2-Pro, it dropped on June 2, 2026, and it costs nothing to download. The model comes […]

Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max launched on May 20, 2026 at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, and the numbers are loud. It scored 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at launch (good for #5 that week, currently sitting top 10 of 151 measured models), the highest-ranked Chinese AI model on that leaderboard to date. It carries […]

Cursor ended its free student discount for new sign-ups on June 25, 2026. The offer that gave verified university students a full year of Cursor Pro at no cost, a benefit worth $240 at the $20 a month price, is closed, and the SheerID verification flow no longer accepts new student applications. This guide covers […]