6 min read
Where to Run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Free and Cheap
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash replaced V4 Flash. Official API: $0.15 input, $0.60 output off-peak. OpenRouter hosts start near $0.05. MIT weights are on Hugging Face.
Read more
OPEN WEIGHTS
39 articles - page 2 of 4
10 min read
Qwen3.8-27B vs Opus 4.6 Max: Local Agentic Coding Benchmarks
Qwen3.8-27B is a 27B dense Apache-2.0 model that beats Opus 4.6 Max on SWE-bench Pro (61.7 vs 53.4). Benchmarks, hardware, cost and when to run it.
13 min read
GLM-5.3 Free and Cheap: Every Route and Price (October 2026)
GLM-5.3 has no free hosted tier. Cheapest on October 9: Wafer via OpenRouter at $0.049/$3.39, Flash from $0.075/$0.25. Z.ai's promos ended October 7.
Read more
7 min read
Cloudflare Runs Kimi and GLM at Scale: FP8 KV Caches, INT4 Weights, and a Cache Safety Net
Cloudflare runs Kimi K2.6 and GLM 5.2 on Workers AI with FP8 KV caches, INT4 weights and a KV cache integrity check. What each technique buys on GPU fleets.
Read more
8 min read
Qwen 3.8 Max Ships: 2.4T MoE, 1M Context, $2/$6 per MTok, Open Weights Next Week
Qwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active, a 1M context window and $2/$6 per million tokens on QwenCloud, with open weights promised next week.
9 min read
AMD MI355X vs NVIDIA B200 vs B300 for Open-Weight Serving
AMD MI355X vs NVIDIA B200 vs B300 for serving Kimi K3's about 1.5TB of open weights: verified specs, the Wafer benchmark, and cost per token for each.
8 min read
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models: the position, the pushback, and what it means for developers
Dario Amodei on open-weights models: export controls, distillation crackdowns and mandatory safety testing, the HN pushback, and what it means for developers.
Read more
9 min read
Kimi Linear: An Attention Architecture That Outperforms Full Attention
Kimi Linear explained: Moonshot's KDA hybrid linear attention beat full attention with 75% less KV cache and up to 6x faster decoding at 1M context.
Read more
7 min read
Kimi K3 Weights Land on HuggingFace: 2.8T Open Frontier Model You Can Actually Download
Kimi K3 open weights are on HuggingFace: 2.8T parameters, 1M context, native MXFP4 and a ~1.63TB download. The specs, license terms and HN reaction.
Read more
13 min read
Where to Access Kimi K3: Every Provider and Price Compared (2026)
Where to access Kimi K3: Moonshot's API at $3 input and $15 output per million tokens, OpenRouter hosts, inference clouds, and open weights.
6 min read
Kimi K3 Drops: Moonshot's 2.8T Parameter Frontier Model Takes on GPT-5.6 and Fable 5
Kimi K3 is Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter model with a 1M-token context and Delta Attention. Pricing, HN reactions and where it fits among frontier models.
Read more
7 min read
GLM 5.2 and the AI Margin Collapse Thesis
GLM 5.2 and the AI margin collapse thesis: why open-weights models could squeeze frontier lab margins, where HN pushes back, and what it means for model choice.
Read more
Showing 13-24 of 38 articles
Keep exploring Open Weights
- - Open Weights Topic Hub - tools and guides for Open Weights from the Developers Digest directory
- - Compare Tools - dive deeper across the Developers Digest knowledge base
- - Developers Digest on YouTube - video tutorials covering Open Weights and more
Get Smarter About AI Dev
New tutorials, open-source projects, and deep dives on coding agents - delivered weekly.
One email per weekReal code, not theoryFree forever
Explore 844 topics
Browse All Topics