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 […]
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 Open 397B comes from IplanRIO, the municipal IT company that runs Rio de Janeiro’s digital services. On its own benchmarks it edges out […]
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 promise, sustainable AI chat that keeps your data in the EU, is the whole pitch behind this growing ChatGPT alternative from the Netherlands. This GreenPT review covers what it is, […]
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 […]
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 benchmark platform Artificial Analysis, it is now the most capable open model to come out of a US lab, scoring 48 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That puts it […]
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. […]
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 industry, at roughly 80% less per million tokens. The open-weight race kept moving fast. Moonshot has since launched the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3, and GLM 5.2 has pulled […]
The five open-source AI models worth running on an M5 Mac in April 2026 are Mistral 7B (16 GB), Qwen 3.5 9B (24 GB), DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B (24 GB), Gemma 4 26B-A4B (32 GB), and Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B (32 GB+). Minimum unified memory is 16 GB, the sweet spot is 24 GB, and […]
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.
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