Production teams confirm Kimi K2.6 is 5× cheaper than Opus 4.7 with comparable coding performance — triggering live model-switching decisions at scale.
DeepInfra's $107M Series B, co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, funds expansion of its 190+ open-model inference cloud amid surging enterprise demand for open-source model hosting.
Qwen3 35B MoE distilled from Claude Opus is available free as a quantized GGUF — near-frontier local inference capability at zero cost.
Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is a 30B-A3B MoE open multimodal model built for agentic AI, with vision and speech capabilities.
Poolside AI's Laguna XS.2, a 33B MoE coding agent model, launches as Apache 2.0 and ranks #12 on SWE-Bench Pro.
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