DeepSeek's cheap model just beat Claude and GPT at coding
A 763B open-weight budget model tops four agentic benchmarks while costing $0.18 per task.
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A 763B open-weight budget model tops four agentic benchmarks while costing $0.18 per task.
Mistral AI launches Mistral Large 4, a 1.05T parameter MoE model with open weights coming October 27, positioning it as Europe's most powerful open-weight AI.
Beam is a 501B-parameter MoE model for coding and agents, shipping under Apache 2.0.
Google freezes its open-source vulnerability rewards program after AI-generated fake reports overwhelm reviewers.
MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon: six fully open models from 0.9B to 375B, with weights, code, training data, and logs all under Apache 2.0.
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Cursor, Harvey, and Thomson Reuters are quietly replacing American closed-source APIs with Chinese open-source models. The regulatory kill-switch, commercial dependency, and sheer model quality are driving the biggest supply chain shift in AI.
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