Four large language models have been released in China within the last month: Kimi K3-2.8T, Qwen3.8-2.4T, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-1.6T, and GLM-5.3-743B.
Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, and GLM-5.3 released within a month
The economics of AI are starting to favor open models
Recent AI model releases show that high-intelligence, low-cost models are increasingly dominated by open-weight models like DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, and MiniMax. For most real-world applications, the performance gap between frontier closed models and strong open models is shrinking faster than cost differences, making open models competitive in terms of both capability and price.
xAI releases Grok 4.6; Alibaba opens Qwen3.8-MoE; DeepSeek V4 Pro GA
This week's AI news highlights major releases from xAI, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, alongside updates to open video models and inference infrastructure.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, Tencent updates Hy3 with Apache 2.0 license
The latest roundup of open model artifacts highlights significant releases from Thinking Machines and Tencent, alongside updates from Poolside and DeepSeek.
Qwen3.8 open-weight release, Kimi Code CLI, Netflix LLM stack, Alibaba chip software
Alibaba announced the open-weight release of Qwen3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, while also open-sourcing its Zhenwu AI chip software stack to reduce reliance on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem.
Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and GLM-5.2 compared on benchmarks, license, and serving cost
A comparison of three open-weight sparse Mixture-of-Experts models—Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2—evaluates their capabilities, licensing terms, and serving costs for long-horizon coding and agent workloads.