タグ: deepseek v4

On June 1, 2026, MiniMax officially released M3, the Shanghai lab’s next flagship language model, and it shipped exactly as promised. The model that spent weeks as an architecture teaser is now live, and the pitch turned out to be real: frontier-level coding, a 1-million-token context window, and native multimodality, all in one open-weight model. MiniMax calls it the first and only open-weight model to bring all three together. Open weights sit at the heart of open source AI, the category of models you can download and run yourself instead of renting access through a closed API. The architecture story we covered before launch held up. M3 is built on […]

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 […]

DeepSeek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash on April 24, 2026, open-source MoE models with 1M context, new CSA/HCA hybrid attention, and benchmarks rivaling GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6. Full breakdown of architecture, benchmarks, pricing, and comparisons.