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Cover illustration for Ornith-1.5 Open Weights Score 86.1 on Terminal-Bench
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Ornith-1.5 Open Weights Score 86.1 on Terminal-Bench

Ornith-1.5 ships MIT-licensed weights from 9B to 397B, and the flagship posts 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 while a 35B MoE sibling runs far leaner.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 20, 20265 min read
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Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Make a 2.4T Model Downloadable

Alibaba published Qwen3.8-Max open weights on August 12: 2.4 trillion parameters, 95B active per token, and a 262K context that extends past 1M tokens.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 14, 20266 min read
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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Puts 1M-Token Agents on RTX PCs

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30B open model with 3B active parameters, a 1M-token context, and 4x faster output for local AI agents.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 12, 20266 min read
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K-EXAONE 2.0 Ships 750B Open Weights Under Apache 2.0

LG AI Research released K-EXAONE 2.0, a 750-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 37B active parameters, under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 6, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Max Packs 2.4T Parameters Into a 1M Context
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Qwen3.8-Max Packs 2.4T Parameters Into a 1M Context

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter sparse MoE model with a 1M-token window, priced at $2 per million input tokens and open weights next week.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 4, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for Sparse Mixture of Experts Explained for 2026 Models
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Sparse Mixture of Experts Explained for 2026 Models

Why a 2.4T-parameter model can be cheaper than a 70B one: what active parameters mean, how routing works, and what MoE really costs to self-host in 2026.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 4, 202611 min read
Cover illustration for DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Tops V4-Pro at a Third the Price
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DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Tops V4-Pro at a Third the Price

DeepSeek's retrained V4-Flash 0731 beats its own V4-Pro preview on every published agentic benchmark at $0.28 per million output tokens, MIT licensed.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 4, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Kimi K3 Open Weights Ship 2.8T Parameters and 1M Context
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Kimi K3 Open Weights Ship 2.8T Parameters and 1M Context

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 open weights on July 26: 2.8 trillion parameters, 104B active per token, 1M context, and a modified MIT license.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 29, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Laguna S 2.1 Open-Weight Coding Model Fits One Desktop
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Laguna S 2.1 Open-Weight Coding Model Fits One Desktop

Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 packs 118B parameters, activates just 8B per token, scores 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, and runs on a single desktop.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 27, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Inkling Is a 975B Open-Weights Model Under Apache 2.0
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Inkling Is a 975B Open-Weights Model Under Apache 2.0

Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Apache 2.0 model with 41B active, a 1M-token context window, and native four-modality reasoning.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 21, 20265 min read
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Qwen3.8-Max Benchmarks: What to Watch in the Preview

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max preview brings 2.4 trillion parameters and multimodal input, but no benchmark table yet. Here's the baseline to measure it against.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 20, 20264 min read
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Kimi K3 Becomes the Largest Open-Weight AI Model Yet

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that ranks 3rd on GDPval-AA v2, with full weights arriving July 27.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Thinking Machines Inkling: A 975B Open-Weights Model
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Thinking Machines Inkling: A 975B Open-Weights Model

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model with 41B active per token and a 1M-token context window.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 16, 20265 min read
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Kimi K2.7 Code Brings Open Weights to GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot's first open-weight model, Kimi K2.7 Code, reached Business and Enterprise plans on July 7 — a 1T-parameter MoE with 32B active.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 15, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for LongCat-2.0: A 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Open Coding Model Hits Frontier Scores
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LongCat-2.0: A 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Open Coding Model Hits Frontier Scores

Meituan's LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6T-parameter open-source agentic coding model matching GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro, with a 1M-token context and MIT license.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 4, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Moonshot's Kimi K2.7 Code Arrives as an Efficient Open-Weight Coding Model
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Moonshot's Kimi K2.7 Code Arrives as an Efficient Open-Weight Coding Model

Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code launched June 12 with a 1T-parameter MoE design, a 256K context window, and roughly 30% lower reasoning-token use.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: A 550B Open Model Built for Long-Running AI Agents
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: A 550B Open Model Built for Long-Running AI Agents

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra on June 4, 2026 — a fully open 550B-parameter reasoning model topping US open-model benchmarks and tuned for long-running AI agents.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 9, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: Its Most Capable Open-Weight LLM Lands at Computex 2026
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: Its Most Capable Open-Weight LLM Lands at Computex 2026

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra debuts at Computex 2026: a 550B sparse Mixture-of-Experts open-weight LLM topping the US Intelligence Index at 48, with open datasets.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 3, 20264 min read
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Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1: Its First In-House Reasoning Model

Microsoft's first in-house reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, debuts at Build 2026 with a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts design and standout AIME scores.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 3, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash Are Here: Open-Source AI With a 1M-Token Context Window
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DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash Are Here: Open-Source AI With a 1M-Token Context Window

DeepSeek drops V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash today with 1M-token context, hybrid attention, and pricing that challenges every closed-source frontier model.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 24, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for GLM-5.1 Goes Open-Source and Hits #1 on SWE-Bench Pro — Beating Every Closed AI Model
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GLM-5.1 Goes Open-Source and Hits #1 on SWE-Bench Pro — Beating Every Closed AI Model

Z.ai's GLM-5.1 is a 754B open-weight MoE model under the MIT license — and it just took #1 on SWE-Bench Pro, outscoring every major closed model.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 10, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Meta Launches Llama 4 Scout and Maverick: Multimodal MoE AI Goes Open-Weight
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Meta Launches Llama 4 Scout and Maverick: Multimodal MoE AI Goes Open-Weight

Meta's Llama 4 Scout and Maverick bring multimodal mixture-of-experts AI to the open-source community, with an unprecedented 10 million token context window.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 9, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Open Models at GDC — 120B Parameters With 5x the Throughput
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NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Open Models at GDC — 120B Parameters With 5x the Throughput

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 family ships in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes with up to 1M-token context, already adopted by CrowdStrike, Cursor, Perplexity, and Zoom.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 12, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA Debuts Nemotron 3 — Open Models With 4x Throughput and a Million-Token Context Window
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NVIDIA Debuts Nemotron 3 — Open Models With 4x Throughput and a Million-Token Context Window

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 family ships three tiers of open models optimized for agentic AI, plus 3 trillion tokens of training data for the community.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 2, 20265 min read