Weekly Open Weights Highlights: Qwen3.8, GLM 5.3, and Global Model Releases
multimodalart · x · 2026-08-28
This week's open weights model highlights include:
- China: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (180B), GLM 5.3-Flash (321B), GLM 5.3 (753B), Tencent Hy4-preview (780B), Breeze TTS-2 (3B), Tencent WeMM Embedding (2B/4B/9B).
- US: IBM Granite 4.2 (3B/8B/30B), Pipecat PhoneLLM Alpha-1 (32B), Reuters Thomson-1.0-Small (34B), IBM Granite Speech 5 (0.5B), Fastino GLiNER 2.5 (0.3B).
- Others: BRIA Fibo 1.5 (8B, Israel), Danish Foundation Models Mimir (1B), OpenThai 2.0 (27B).
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