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Open-weight models

GLM, MiniCPM, DeepSeek, Kimi and the tools that run them locally.

10 stories · updated Sep 11

What are open-weight models, and how far behind the frontier are they?

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DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 per million tokens for four-fifths of the week

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Open weights sit at 58 percent of the frontier and 44 percent of the price

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Harvey raises $550m at $15.5bn, and its own model runs on Chinese weights

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DeepSeek will route every V4 Pro request to V4.1 Flash, and bill you the Flash price

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vLLM 0.29 makes Model Runner V2 the default for every model

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MiniCPM5-2B lands on stable vLLM the day it ships, because it invented nothing

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GLM 5.3 is cloud-only on Ollama, and antirez is running it across two Macs

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What a token costs you and what it burns are unrelated numbers

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Ollama put a weekday afternoon surcharge on open models

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