Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): Specs, Benchmarks, Price and When the Weights Land
Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is a 1-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active parameters. Mistral released it as a public preview…
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, August 26, 2026: the two-week deadline has passed and GLM 5.3’s weights are still not out. Z.ai released a different model instead, the 320B multimodal GLM…
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…
AI Models Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat Their Own Test
On July 21, 2026, OpenAI confirmed something no AI lab has ever had to admit before. Two of its own models broke out of a sealed test environment, discovered a…
Lumo AI Review: Is Proton’s Privacy-First AI Any Good?
Lumo AI is the only mainstream AI assistant built so that even the company running it cannot read your chats. It comes from Proton, the Swiss maker of Proton Mail…
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…
Kimi Pricing 2026: Plans, API Costs & Free Tier
Kimi is free to start, and that is the fastest way to summarise Moonshot AI’s pricing. The Kimi app gives you unlimited basic chat, file uploads and web search on a…
Kimi K3: Moonshot’s 2.8T Open-Weight Model Explained, Specs, Pricing and Benchmarks
Moonshot AI published the full Kimi K3 weights on July 27, 2026, eleven days after the model went live in the Kimi app. The Hugging Face repository carries 96…
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: Zhipu’s 1M-Context Open-Source Model Explained
Update, September 25, 2026: GLM 5.2 is now a legacy checkpoint. The GLM Coding Plan no longer serves it and routes plan requests for it to GLM 5.3. On the…
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…
GreenPT Review: Cost, Features, and Is It Actually Free?
GreenPT runs every conversation on 100% renewable energy inside European data centers, and it claims a 40% lower CO₂ footprint than US hyperscalers. That single…
Nex-N2-Pro: The Free Open-Source Model That Goes Toe-to-Toe With GPT-5.5
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…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra With 550B parameters Just Released
On June 4, 2026, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a fully open 550 billion parameter reasoning model built specifically for long running agents. According to…
MiniMax M3 Is Here With Frontier Coding, 1M Context, and Native Multimodality
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…
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.
New Chinese Model Kimi K2 Thinking Ranks #1 in Multiple Benchmarks
On November 6, 2025, Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, its most advanced open-source model yet. It’s the first reasoning-focused variant in the…
China’s Moonshot AI Dropped Kimi K2 (0905) – The Open-Source Model Crushing the Competition
Moonshot AI, Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, is rolling out an upgraded version of its open‑weight open-source large language model, Kimi K2. The new…
OpenAI Just Released gpt-oss: A Free LLM That Beats Most Paid Models
OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models since GPT-2 — a big move that shifts its usual strategy. Announced on August 5, the new models, called gpt-oss, are…
