Open Weights Closing the Gap: Kimi K3 & DeepSeek V4 Challenge GPT-Level

haider1 · x · 2026-08-03

An analyst argues that if Anthropic and OpenAI slow down AI development for safety, open-weight models will eat them alive. Recent releases validate this: Kimi K3 trails only GPT-5.6, DeepSeek V4 Flash achieves near Opus 4.8 agentic level for free, and Qwen 3.8 Max matches top closed models on several benchmarks.

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