LLM Hacker News 13h ago 1 min read
The discussion is less about downloading weights for their own sake and more about the stack forming around them: runtimes, serving, benchmarks, customization, and governance.
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RSS FeedAI sources.Axios 6d ago 2 min read
The policy fight is no longer just about model benchmarks. Axios reports that U.S. officials have revisited tools such as Entity List threats, security advisories, procurement pressure, and hosting liability rules as cheaper Chinese open-weight models gain enterprise traction.
LLM Curated Jul 17, 2026 2 min read
Kimi K3 raises the open-weight scale race to 2.8T parameters with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Full weights are scheduled by July 27, 2026, while the model is already available through Kimi.com, Kimi Code, and the API.
LLM X/Twitter Jul 3, 2026 2 min read
Copilot now has its first selectable open-weight model. GitHub says Kimi K2.7 Code starts in VS Code for Pro tiers, with Business and Enterprise admins required to enable it by policy.
LLM X/Twitter Jun 30, 2026 1 min read
OpenRouter says it continuously runs GPQA and TAU-Bench on open-weight models and feeds the results into AutoExacto routing. The linked GLM 5.2 page pairs benchmark rankings with production details such as a 1M-token context window and $0.94/$3 per 1M token pricing.
LLM X/Twitter Jun 29, 2026 2 min read
Open-weight LLMs are moving from cost comparisons into production agent design. OpenRouter singled out four June 2026 models, including DeepSeek V4 Flash at 79.0% on SWE-bench Verified and GLM 5.2 as the top open model on Artificial Analysis v4.1.
LLM Jun 28, 2026 2 min read
OpenRouter’s June review frames open-weight competition around four models: DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM 5.2, MiniMax M3, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra. The numbers that matter are 79.0% on SWE-bench Verified, an Intelligence Index score of 51, 1M-token contexts, and sharply lower serving costs.
LLM Mar 24, 2026 2 min read
Microsoft Research announced the 15 billion parameter open-weight model Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on March 4, 2026. The lab says the release is designed to deliver stronger multimodal reasoning, math and science performance, and computer-use ability without the compute profile of much larger systems.
LLM Hacker News Mar 7, 2026 2 min read
A Hacker News thread surfaced OBLITERATUS, an open-source project that studies and alters refusal behavior in open-weight LLMs without retraining. The interesting part is not just the capability claim but the project’s framing as a shared telemetry-backed research pipeline for comparing safety-editing methods across models and hardware.
LLM Reddit Feb 17, 2026 2 min read
A r/LocalLLaMA post on Qwen3.5 gained 123 upvotes and pointed directly to public weights and model documentation. The linked card confirms key specs including 397B total parameters, 17B activated, and 262,144 native context length.