Tag: open source
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Qwen3.8-Max Preview: Alibaba’s 2.4T-Parameter Bid for the Frontier
Alibaba’s Qwen team announced Qwen3.8-Max-Preview on July 19, 2026 — a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model the team calls its most capable system yet, claiming performance “second only to Fable 5” among the models it evaluated. The preview landed just two days after Moonshot AI’s 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 open-weight release, underscoring how quickly China’s frontier […]
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Kimi K3 Hits Third on Artificial Analysis; Open Weights Due July 27
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1-million-token context window that now sits third on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 and behind only Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The full weights are promised by July 27, which would make K3 […]
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Thinking Machines Releases Inkling, Its First Open-Weight Model
On July 15, 2026, Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling — its first model trained from scratch and, notably, its first open-weight release. Founded in February 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, the lab is best known for the Tinker fine-tuning platform; Inkling is a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (41B active) published under the permissive Apache […]
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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class AI Model That Runs on a Phone
On July 14, 2026, PrismML released Bonsai 27B — a pair of extreme-quantization builds of Alibaba’s Qwen3.6-27B that the company calls the first 27B-class model capable of running on a phone. The 1-bit variant fits in 3.9 GB and runs on an iPhone 17 Pro, while a higher-quality ternary variant fits in 5.9 GB for […]
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Tencent Releases Hy3: 295B Open MoE Model Under Apache 2.0
Tencent has released Hy3, the full production version of its Hunyuan reasoning-and-agent model, following up on the Hy3 Preview that launched in late April 2026. Hy3 is a 295-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21 billion active parameters, and it ships fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license — weights, quantized variants, and inference recipes included. […]
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Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Model Trained on Chinese Chips
Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that the Chinese food-delivery giant says is the first model of its scale to complete both pre-training and inference entirely on domestic AI chips. Released on June 30, 2026, LongCat-2.0 had already been quietly topping OpenRouter’s usage charts under the codename “Owl Alpha” before its identity was […]
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JetSpec: Causal Parallel Tree Drafting Hits 9.64x Faster LLM Inference
On June 26, 2026, researchers at UC San Diego’s Hao AI Lab released JetSpec — a speculative decoding method that accelerates large language model inference by up to 9.64× while leaving the model’s outputs unchanged. JetSpec trains a small “causal parallel draft head” on top of a frozen target model, generating a scored tree of […]
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FastWan Generates a 5-Second Video in 5 Seconds via Sparse Distillation
FastWan generates a 5-second video in about 5 seconds on a single GPU — and the team at UC San Diego’s Hao AI Lab did it by training the model to be fast rather than patching speed on at inference time. Released under Apache-2.0 with full weights, training recipes, and datasets, FastWan introduces Sparse Distillation: […]
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GLM-5.2: Z.ai’s Open-Weights Coder Beats GPT-5.5 at 1/6 the Cost
On June 13, 2026, Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) released GLM-5.2 — a 753-billion-parameter open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model built for long-horizon, autonomous coding. The headline claim is striking: GLM-5.2 edges past OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on several multi-step engineering benchmarks while costing roughly one-sixth as much to run. The full weights ship under an unrestricted MIT license on Hugging […]
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Apple Open-Sources Its Foundation Models Framework, Adds Claude and Gemini
At WWDC 2026 on June 9, Apple announced it will open-source its Foundation Models framework — the on-device AI layer that powers Apple Intelligence — later this summer. Alongside the open-source pledge, Apple opened the framework to third-party models like Claude and Gemini, added image input, and made its newest cloud models free to small […]