Open-Weight Models Accelerate Significantly

Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-07-20

Open-weight models seem to have entered a period of marked acceleration: - Qwen-3.8 is described as "second only to Fable 5." - Kimi-K3 is said to be "only behind Claude Fable 5 Max and GPT-5.6 Sol Max." - GLM-5.2 (753B) is evaluated as "very efficient and capable," with strong demand from Databricks clients. The author expresses immense excitement about this wave of progress in open-weight models.

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