2026 is shaping up to be a landmark year for open and local AI.
-Zai says GLM-5.3, improved entirely through post-training on the same base model as GLM-5.2, scored 84.5% on CyberGym, ahead of Mythos 5's 83.8%.
-Qwen3.8-27B runs locally and beats Opus 4.6 Max on several key benchmarks.
-With API prices as low as $0.14 per million uncached input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash comes remarkably close to "too cheap to meter."
Here's to open AI and local AI. Intelligence for everyone!