Open model releases since July
Chinese models like Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek V4-Pro now rival top closed-source options, affecting AI development costs globally.
Since July 15, Thinking Machines released Inkling, while Moonshot launched Kimi K3 on July 16 with weights available July 26. inclusionAI released Ling 3.0 Flash on July 23 and Ling 3.0 Tiny on August 6. DeepSeek released V4-Flash-0731 on July 31 and V4-Pro-0813 on August 13.
a few notable open model releases *since* this interview of @dylan522p by the way :) Thinking Machines - Inkling - Jul 15 Moonshot - Kimi K3 - Jul 16, weights Jul 26/27 inclusionAI - Ling 3.0 Flash - Jul 23 DeepSeek - V4-Flash-0731 - Jul 31 Meta - Muse Spark 1.2 / Muse Code - Aug 5 Liquid AI - LFM2.5-2.6B - Aug 6 inclusionAI - Ling 3.0 Tiny - Aug 6 Meta - Muse Glimmer - Aug 10 NVIDIA - Nemotron 3.5 Lightning - Aug 11 Liquid AI - LFM2.5-VL-3B - Aug 12 Cohere - North Micro Vision Instruct - Aug 12 DeepSeek - V4-Pro-0813 - Aug 13 Qwen - Qwen3.8-27B - Aug 14 Qwen - Qwen3.8-Max / 2.4T-A95B - Aug 14 Z.ai - GLM-5.3 - Aug 14, weights Aug 28 Dots - Dots3-Note Preview - Aug 14 DeepReinforce - Ornith 1.5 (9B / 35B-A3B) - Aug 19 Tencent - Hy-MT2-30B-A3B - Aug 20 DeepSeek - V4-Flash-Vision-Exp - Aug 21 IBM - Granite 4.2 family - Aug 25 Z.ai - GLM-5.3-Flash - Aug 26 Qwen - Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - Aug 26 Tencent - Hy4 Preview (770B / 49B active MoE) - Aug 28 MBZUAI/IFM - K2 Horizon (375B-A23B) - Sep 3 inclusionAI - LLaDA2.2-mini - Sep 5 OpenBMB - MiniCPM5-2B - Sep 7 Nex AGI - N2.5 family - Sep 8 DeepSeek - V4.1-Flash - Sep 10 inclusionAI - Ling-3.0-flash-VL - Sep 10 Shanghai AI Lab - Atria Dawn Preview (744B MoE) - Sep 11 Agnes AI - Agnes 3.0 Flash - Sep 14 Qwen - Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash - Sep 18 … this is only ~10 weeks Several are genuinely frontier-scale: Kimi K3 (2.8T), Qwen3.8-Max (2.4T), DeepSeek V4-Pro (~1.6T), Hy4 (770B), GLM-5.3 (~753B), and Atria Dawn (744B) sourcery @sourceryy Dylan Patel ( @dylan522p ) of @SemiAnalysis_ says open source is dying: "There's multiple Chinese model labs who are telling all the inference guys, 'Our next model's not going to be open source. We're going to license it to you.'" " Open is dying quickly, unfortunately." Your browser does not support the video tag. 🔗 View on Twitter 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 2 🔄 1 ❤️ 13 👀 862 📊 3 ⚡