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Vibe Coding2026-08-14 · source-backed
The changelog offers Z.ai's open-weights coding model with a 1M-token context free via Blackbox AI on AI Gateway, default for new eve agents, switchable for existing ones with eve set --model zai/glm-5.2. Excludes Fast mode and the glm-5.2-fast variant. Separately, Gemini 3.7 Flash landed on AI Gateway at 50% off through December 31 with no markup. Two free-ish windows to benchmark open weights against Google's cheap tier while it costs nothing.
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Released August 6 by InclusionAI, it's a native hybrid-reasoning MoE with switchable Thinking and Instant modes, native function calling, prompt caching and 256K context, aimed at resource-constrained and fully local deployment (demoed against obsidian-cli over a local notes r...
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OpenRouter is running an exclusive extra 50% on top of Google's own 50% introductory cut, landing Gemini 3.7 Flash at $0.375 per million input and $1.875 per million output. Google's standing Vertex price through end of 2026 is $0.75 and $3.75, doubling to $1.50 and $7.50 on J...
Simon Willison found it in the OpenRouter price list. 1.6T MoE, ~49B active, 1M context, up to 384K output, at $0.435/M input (cache miss) and $0.87/M output. The agentic-coding deltas versus the preview are the story: DeepSWE 12.8 → 62.7, CyberGym 52.7 → 83.3, Terminal Bench...
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