Weekly Open Models Roundup: Qwen, GLM 5.3, IBM Granite 4.2, and More
multimodalart · x · 2026-08-28
This week saw significant releases in open weights models. In China, Alibaba Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (180B), Zhipu GLM 5.3 (753B), and Tencent Hy4-preview (780B) were highlighted, alongside audio models Breeze TTS-2 and FireRedAudio. Internationally, IBM released Granite 4.2 series and Granite Speech 5, Pipecat launched PhoneLLM Alpha-1, and Reuters open-sourced Thomson-1.0-Small. Other updates include BRIA's Fibo 1.5 and Denmark's Mimir.
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