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 http://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 http://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)