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 […]

IBM’s Granite-4.2-8b is an 8-billion-parameter reasoning model built for enterprise and developer use cases. It offers a 131,072-token context window and an Apache 2.0 license, which suits complex reasoning and long-context data processing in production. Running an 8B model with a long context window means balancing inference cost, output throughput, time to first token (TTFT), […]