MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the kind of model that gets a pricing guide worth reading: it combines open weights, a 1M-token context window, and pricing that undercuts the typical large open-weight reasoning model. At listed rates of $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, it comes in below the median pricing Artificial Analysis […]

From 19.0 to 71.9 on DeepSWE — that’s the jump Xiaomi reports between MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Pro, its new flagship, on real-world software engineering tasks. That puts it, on Xiaomi’s own published figures, alongside Claude Opus 5 (74.0) and GPT-5.6 Sol (73.0) on a benchmark designed to test repository-level coding rather than toy problems. Built by […]

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next was released on August 26, 2026. The same day, SGLang announced day-0 support, built with the Qwen, NVIDIA and AMD teams, and shipped a dedicated container image. vLLM served the model from its own dedicated image while the architecture-support work was still being merged. llama.cpp, the engine most people use to run models on […]

Jev had competitors before it was even a month old. TypeSafe launched it on September 15, and by the first week of October OpenAI had announced a Decisions API, Cloudflare and AWS had shipped open-weight decision models, and GitHub had a shelf of open-source Jev alternatives: Laya, OpenJev, Kev, AnyJev. We ran Jev and the […]

Wan3.0 is Alibaba’s all-in-one video generation model. It accepts text, images, video, audio, documents, and web pages, and it produces up to 30 seconds of 1080P video with synchronized audio. Production use raises practical questions. Video jobs run asynchronously, reference inputs can be large, and each provider exposes a different slice of the model’s features […]