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Zhipu AI released its open-weight GLM-5.2 model, with researchers claiming it matches Anthropic's Mythos on certain bug-finding and cybersecurity tasks. The model lags behind Anthropic and OpenAI models on general benchmarks but represents a significant narrowing of capabilities between Chinese and US AI systems.

Cohere has released North Mini Code, the first model in its North family and its first agentic coding model. The sparse mixture-of-experts architecture features 30B total parameters with 3B active, a 256K-token context window, and up to 64K tokens of output, available free via OpenRouter under Apache 2.0 license.

Ideogram has released Ideogram 4, its first open-weight text-to-image model with 9.3 billion parameters. The model supports native 2K resolution, structured JSON prompting with bounding-box layout controls, and is available in nf4 and fp8 quantizations under a non-commercial license.

Ideogram has released Ideogram 4, a 9.3B parameter open-weight text-to-image model trained from scratch. The model features structured JSON prompting, native 2K resolution output, and ranks as the top open-weight model on Design Arena. Available in fp8 and nf4 quantizations under a non-commercial license.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released preview versions of DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro, mixture-of-experts models with 1 million token context windows. The V4 Pro has 1.6 trillion total parameters (49 billion active), making it the largest open-weight model available, while both models significantly undercut frontier model pricing.

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, the first open-weight model in the Qwen3.6 series. The model features 35B total parameters with 3B activated, a native 262K context window extensible to 1.01M tokens, and achieves 73.4% on SWE-bench Verified using 256 experts with 8 activated per token.

Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.1, a freely available open-weight model designed for long-running programming tasks that achieves 58.4% on SWE-Bench Pro, edging out GPT-5.4 (57.7%) and Claude Opus 4.6 (57.3%). The model's core capability is iterative strategy refinement—it rethinks its approach across hundreds of iterations and thousands of tool calls, recognizing dead ends and shifting tactics without human intervention. However, GLM-5.1 trails on reasoning and knowledge benchmarks, scoring 31% on Humanity's Last Exam compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro's 45%.

ByteDance has released Helios, a 14-billion-parameter open-weight video generation model that achieves 19.5 frames per second on a single GPU while generating minute-long video clips. The researchers claim this is the first model of its scale to reach near-real-time performance at this duration. Code and model weights are publicly available.

Alibaba has released Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, a 35-billion parameter multimodal model capable of processing images and text. The model is published under an Apache 2.0 license and available on Hugging Face with Transformers and SafeTensors format support.