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Articles Tagged “Open Source LLM

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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 Hugging Face Brings Open-Source LLMs to GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code
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Hugging Face Brings Open-Source LLMs to GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code

Hugging Face wired its inference network directly into GitHub Copilot Chat on April 28, 2026 — letting VS Code developers swap in open-source LLMs from hundreds of providers right next to Copilot's default models, no extension switching required.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMay 4, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Mistral Small 4 Unifies Reasoning, Multimodal, and Coding Into One Apache 2.0 Model
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Mistral Small 4 Unifies Reasoning, Multimodal, and Coding Into One Apache 2.0 Model

Mistral Small 4 collapses three flagship model families — reasoning, multimodal, and agentic coding — into a single 119B-parameter Apache 2.0 model with a 256k context window.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 26, 20266 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 LG Releases EXAONE 4.5: Open-Source Vision-Language AI That Outscores GPT-5-mini
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LG Releases EXAONE 4.5: Open-Source Vision-Language AI That Outscores GPT-5-mini

LG AI Research's EXAONE 4.5 is a 33B multimodal VLM with Hybrid Attention architecture that outscores GPT-5-mini and Claude 4.5 Sonnet on STEM benchmarks — and it's fully open-source.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 9, 20265 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 Google Gemma 4 Launches With Four Sizes, Apache 2.0 License, and a Top-3 Open Model Ranking
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Google Gemma 4 Launches With Four Sizes, Apache 2.0 License, and a Top-3 Open Model Ranking

Google's Gemma 4 arrives with model sizes from 2B to 31B, a permissive Apache 2.0 license, native multimodal support across all sizes, and the #3 spot on the global open model leaderboard.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 4, 20265 min read