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Genmo's Apache 2.0 licensed 10B-parameter video generator is the largest open-weight text-to-video model released, with no managed API and roughly $0.33 per clip to self-host on an H100.
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Genmo's Apache 2.0 licensed 10B-parameter video generator is the largest open-weight text-to-video model released, with no managed API and roughly $0.33 per clip to self-host on an H100.

Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal MoE model claims to trail only Claude Fable 5, but ships with no model card, no benchmark table, and no confirmed pricing.

Bonsai 27B compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B into 1-bit and ternary weights, shrinking a 54GB model to as little as 3.9GB so it runs on an iPhone.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion parameter MoE model that tops LMArena's Frontend Code Arena and nears Claude Fable 5 on intelligence benchmarks, but at roughly triple Kimi K2.6's price and a higher hallucination rate.

Snowflake's reasoning-first text-to-SQL model tops the BIRD benchmark at 71.83% execution accuracy, trained with GRPO and a reward that only checks if the SQL runs correctly.

Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weight model - a 975B-parameter MoE with native text, image, and audio reasoning, released under Apache 2.0 and tuned for customization on the Tinker platform.

Alibaba's 1M-token flagship agentic coding model posts 78.8% on SWE-bench Verified and undercuts Kimi K2.6 and Claude Opus on price, but ships with no weights and a mandatory reasoning tax.

Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 Pro debuted at 1501 Elo on LMArena with 91.9% on GPQA Diamond and a 1M-token context window, before Google retired it for Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Nous Research's 36B open-weight model matches Hermes 4 70B on most benchmarks, tops RefusalBench on alignment, and is the first production model trained entirely on the Solana-secured Psyche network.

Google's hybrid reasoning workhorse pairs a 1M-token context window with $0.30/$2.50 per million token pricing and a toggleable 0-24,576 token thinking budget, now heading toward an October 2026 shutdown.

ByteDance's July 2026 flagship image generation model with native 2K output, editable layer separation, multilingual text in 14 languages, and precision region editing.

Grok 4.5 is xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 MoE model, publicly launched July 8 at $2/M input - cheap, fast, and token-efficient, though neutral harness benchmarks put it well behind Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 on coding.