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K2 Horizon 7B explained: small model, big-model results
IFM's K2 Horizon 7B open-weights model matches models four times its size on coding and math. What beginners should know before trying it.
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Qwen3.8-27B on one RTX 3090 hits 2,000 tok/s prefill
Community builders pushed Qwen3.8-27B to 2,000 tok/s prefill and 132 tok/s decode on a single RTX 3090. Here is what that speed means for local AI.
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IBM Granite 4.2 ships reasoning and agent RL under Apache 2.0
IBM Granite 4.2 is a family of dense reasoning LLMs in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes with native chain-of-thought and multi-stage agentic RL, all released under Apache 2.0.
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Compressed 4-bit LLM outperforms full precision with QAH
Quantization-Aware Healing distills 4-bit compressed LLMs from the original teacher. The 4-bit student beats its bfloat16 source on 7 of 9 benchmarks.
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Qwen 3.8 27B one week later: what 2,000 local testers found
Qwen 3.8 27B is a free, open-weights AI model that runs on your laptop. After one week and 2,000 community posts, here is what testers found.
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Qwen3.8 2.4T open weights: what beginners should know
Qwen3.8 open weights give you 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion active per token, Alibaba's largest. Here is what beginners should know.
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Muse Glimmer 30B: Meta's open-weights model for local agents
Meta's 30B open-weights Muse Glimmer fits on one RTX 3090 and reaches 280 tokens per second, built for local agentic workflows.
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NVIDIA's Alpamayo 2 Super goes open for commercial AV use
Released on Hugging Face under a permissive commercial license, NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super is a 34B open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles.
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Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max narrows open-weight frontier gap
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's 2.4T open-weight model ranking fifth in text and second in vision on Arena. The gap with US frontier labs narrows but does not close.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 puts frontier AI on your own hardware
Scoring 50 on the Intelligence Index, the DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 open-weights update matches March 2026 frontier models. What it changes for you.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash is live: what beginners should know
With 284B parameters and 13B active, DeepSeek V4 Flash went live on July 31, 2026, matching frontier coding benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.
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Kimi K3 hits open frontier with 2.8T mixture of experts
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 ranks fourth of 580 models on Artificial Analysis while activating only 104B of 2.8 trillion parameters.
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Kimi K3 open weights land: what beginners should know
At 2.8 trillion parameters, the Kimi K3 open weights released July 26, 2026 are the largest AI model download yet. What beginners can do with them.
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Inkling 975B: Thinking Machines releases open-weights model
Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weights model, Inkling, has 975B parameters, 41B active and an Apache 2.0 license, and targets fine-tuning over benchmarks.
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Kimi K3 explained: what 2.8 trillion parameters means
Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight Kimi K3 matches top US closed models on key benchmarks, with weights due July 27.
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Hy3 295B open weights: what 21B active means
Tencent's Hy3 open-weights model has 295 billion parameters but only 21 billion active per token, rivalling larger models and cutting hallucination to 5.4 percent.
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LongCat-2.0 open weights: what 1.6 trillion parameters means
LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model from Meituan that activates only 48 billion parameters per token. Its weights are now open under the MIT license.