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DeepSeek's open-weights frontier family, previewed April 24, 2026. V4-Pro is 1.6T total / 49B active params; V4-Flash is 284B / 13B. 1M context standard. Weights on Hugging Face.
Anthropic's smallest Claude 4.5 model. Near-frontier coding performance at one-third the cost of Sonnet 4 and up to 4-5x faster than Sonnet 4.5. $1/$5 per million tokens.
Open-source terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI. Powered by Kimi K2.5 (1T params, 32B active). 256K context window. Agent Swarm runs up to 100 parallel sub-agents.
Open-source reasoning models from China. DeepSeek-R1 rivals o1 on math and code benchmarks. V3 for general use. Fully open weights. Extremely cost-effective API.
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