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Unisound's U2 is a 266B-total / 10B-active MoE tuned for agents, citing 72.2% SWE-bench Verified at $0.15/$0.30 per 1M tokens, while GLM-5.2 is getting named the strongest open-weight coding model across July roundups. Both are roundup-sourced, so verify the benchmarks against primary release notes before you build on them. Directionally, they're more evidence that self-hostable weights can now anchor real coding-agent work.
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Z.ai's GLM-5 (744B/40B MoE, MIT license, 205K context) is free on NVIDIA NIM at 40 req/min with no credit card. Benchmarks: 77.8% SWE-bench Verified (highest open-source), 56.2 Terminal-Bench 2.0 (approaching Opus 4.5's 59.3). Trained entirely on 100,000 Huawei Ascend chips. Y...
The assumption that proprietary models own the coding benchmark crown just broke. Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 leads on 5 of 8 major agentic coding benchmarks while being the only open-weight model in the top tier. SWE-Bench Pro: 58.6% vs GPT-5.4's 57.7% and Claude Opus 4.6's 53.4%...
The open-weight race just changed constraint. Moonshot AI suspended all new consumer subscriptions on July 20, roughly 48 hours after Kimi K3 launched, because request volume pushed its compute cluster to capacity. Remaining GPUs are reserved for existing paid subscribers. Tec...
Use claude-launcher v0.4 to route Claude Code through NVIDIA NIM, running GLM-5 (744B MoE, 40B active, MIT license) at zero cost with 40 req/min free tier. GLM-5 scores 92.7% on AIME 2026 and 77.8% on SWE-bench Verified. paddo.dev
Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.7-Code on Hugging Face on June 12. The specs are loud: 1T-parameter MoE with 32B active across 384 experts, a 256K context window, Modified MIT license, tuned for long-horizon agentic software engineering (MarkTechPost). Moonshot reports +21.8% on K...
GLM-5.1 from Zhipu AI scored 58.4% on SWE-bench Pro. GPT-5.4 scored 57.7%. Claude Opus 4.6 scored 57.3%. That's the first time an open-weight model has ever topped a major coding benchmark against the best proprietary models. The specs matter. GLM-5.1 is a 754B-parameter mixtu...
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