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China's Open-Weight Wave: Qwen Drops 2.4 Trillion Parameters, DeepSeek Moves to Peak-Off-Peak Pricing
One week, two headlines Early August delivered two Chinese model stories back to back. One lifted the "largest open" bar straight to 2.4 trillion parameters. The other quietly changed its pricing, and
Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Out (2026): Near-Production Coding, and the Truth About Half-Price Tokens
Bottom line first On August 13, Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash. Its positioning is clear: not the smartest model, but the best value one - built specifically for agents that need to run in productio
Supabase Evals in Practice (2026): What Separates Coding Agents Isn't the Model - It's Context
You could swap in a top-tier model and get about the same as a mid-tier one On August 1, Supabase open-sourced a benchmark called Evals that runs Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode against real backend
Qwen3.8 vs Kimi K3 (2026): Which Open Chinese LLM Fits Your Business
First Week of August: Two Chinese Giants Drop Heavy Models Alibaba pushed Qwen3.8-Max to 2.4 trillion parameters. A week earlier, Moonshot AI had already dropped the full 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K
Google Splits Gemini Into Three Speed Tiers: 3.6 Flash Lands, Robotics ER 2 Follows
For the past year the default logic was simple: bigger model means better model. Google just flipped that. Instead of another giant flagship, it split Gemini into three "speed tiers" so different job
Kimi K3 Weights Go Live Today: The World's Largest Open Model, But It Makes Things Up Half the Time
Today Moonshot AI dropped the full weights of Kimi K3 on HuggingFace. 2.8 trillion parameters, Modified MIT license, free to download, modify, and self-host. It is the largest open-weight model hum
AMD Helios Rack-Scale AI System Debuts, with Microsoft On Board to Challenge Nvidia
AMD just pulled its rack-scale play out of the bag On July 20, AMD showed off Helios for the first time to press — not another graphics card, but a full rack. GPUs, CPUs, networking and a software st
Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again: Coding Falls Short, Alphabet Sheds ~6% in Two Days
From "give us one more month" to "coming soon" At Google I/O on May 19, Sundar Pichai stood on stage and said: give us one more month. Everyone bought it. A month later, nothing shipped. The new lin
Mira Murati's First Move: Inkling, 975B Open Weights with Native Audio
Mira Murati's first card Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, pulled the wraps off its first foundation model on July 17 — Inkling. 975 billion parameters, Mixture-of-Exp
Kimi K3 Drops at Midnight: 2.8T Params, the Largest Open Model Yet
2.8 trillion. The open-weights ceiling just broke again. At midnight on July 17, Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3. 2.8 trillion parameters, Mixture-of-Experts, 16 experts fired per token — the first open
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Drops Tomorrow: A Month-Long Retrain to Beat Fable 5 at Frontend
Google Is Making a Big Bet Tomorrow, July 17, Google DeepMind's flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, finally drops. It was supposed to land in June. Instead it got pushed back over a month. And this wasn
Microsoft Quietly Replaced OpenAI with Its Own MAI Models in Excel and Outlook
Microsoft Is Pulling Away from OpenAI Bloomberg dropped a scoop on July 14: Microsoft has been quietly swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models for its own MAI series inside Excel and Outlook. Tens of t