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Update, June 21, 2026: The first independent benchmarks have landed since launch and now rank GLM 5.2 as the strongest open-weight coding model, and the open weights are available for self-hosting. Scores and analysis are below. GLM 5.2 arrived on June 13, 2026, and it lands with three headline numbers: a 753-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts design, a 1-million-token context window, and an MIT license that makes the weights free for anyone to download and run. Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI (operating as Z.ai) shipped it as a coding-first frontier model, and the timing was not subtle. It went public just two days after the US ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to […]

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. It packs 1 trillion total parameters, activates 32 billion of them per token, runs a 256K-token context window, and ships with open weights on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT license. It is also part of a wave of Chinese coding models making headlines this month, alongside ByteDance’s Seed 2.1 Pro, which just ranked #8 on Code Arena: Frontend. The headline pitch is efficiency, with Moonshot claiming the model uses about 30% fewer reasoning tokens than the previous K2.6 while scoring higher on its coding […]

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 its public preview, runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and is powered mainly by Google’s Gemini models. Antigravity first launched in November 2025 and relaunched as Antigravity 2.0 at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, this time as a full platform with a desktop app, a command-line tool, and a developer kit. This guide explains […]

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 from Nex AGI, ships under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, and is built specifically for agentic tasks like writing code, calling tools, and running long, multi-step workflows on its own. This is one of the clearest signs yet that open-source AI has caught up with the frontier on the tasks developers actually care about. In […]

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 a 1 million-token context window, costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens, and Alibaba’s internal testing reports a 35-hour autonomous coding run that fired 1,158 tool calls and hit a 10× speedup over the standard Triton reference. So is it actually better than GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, or Gemini 3.5? Short answer, on a price-per-intelligence basis, […]

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 exactly what changed, what happens if you already claimed the discount, and the real options students have now. That includes Cursor’s new event-based credits, the credit-request route for researchers, and the strongest free or cheap alternatives for AI coding. The Key Takeaways What Happened to the Cursor Student Discount? On June 25, 2026, Cursor closed […]

The best free AI for coding in 2026 is now three open-weight models, and they compete with paid frontier systems on every published benchmark. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, Kimi K2.6 hits 80.2%, and Qwen 3.6 27B reaches 77.2%, all released between April 20 and April 24, 2026, and all free to use without a credit card. You can chat with each one in a browser, download the weights for offline use, or plug them into your code editor, with zero subscription required. A newer heavyweight, GLM 5.2, pushes the open-weight frontier further with a 1-million-token context window and now beats GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro, though it […]

PewDiePie’s AI model scored 39% on the Aider Polyglot benchmark, outperforming GPT-4o (23.1%) and Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp (35.6%) on a coding test widely used in AI research. The retired YouTube star Felix Kjellberg spent months building a $41,000 home GPU rig, reading machine learning papers, and grinding through failed training runs to get there. He published the full journey in a video released on February 26, 2026. This is not PewDiePie casually asking ChatGPT to write code. He built a 10-GPU workstation, scraped GitHub for training data, generated synthetic datasets using the DeepSeek API, and fine-tuned Qwen 32B, a 32-billion-parameter open-source model. The result is a genuine AI fine-tuning […]

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.

Imagine your AI coding assistant responding the instant you finish typing. No more lag, no more waiting—just seamless, real-time help that feels like a natural extension of your thoughts. That’s the promise of Anthropic’s new Claude Haiku 4.5, now Generally Available (GA) in GitHub Copilot. It’s not just another update; it’s a fundamental shift in developer experience. Anthropic positions Claude Haiku 4.5 as delivering near-Sonnet 4 coding performance at one-third the price and more than twice the speed; a partner quote on Anthropic’s launch page cites ‘up to 4–5× faster than Sonnet 4.5.’ But is it powerful enough for your daily work? How much cheaper is it really inside Copilot? […]