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Upcoming launches

Announced and rumored open models, with expected timing. Each is auto-promoted into the feed the moment it actually ships.

AnnouncedAug 26, 2026

Qwen Teases 3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B Sparse MoE

Alibaba's next Qwen release pairs a large parameter pool with a tiny active footprint, promising speed without the full compute bill.

Qwen · Alibaba·Text / LLM
AnnouncedSep 9, 2026

DeepSeek Announces V4.1 Flash, a Cheaper Reasoning Model

The new mixture-of-experts model is billed as more capable than V4 Pro while costing less to run, and ships under an MIT license.

DeepSeek·Text / LLM
Announced

Zhipu Confirms 'Ox Alpha' Is a New GLM Model

The Chinese AI lab says its stealth-tested system belongs to the GLM series and will ship with open weights under an MIT license.

Zhipu AI·Text / LLM
Announced

Google's DiffusionGemma bets on parallel text generation

An experimental open-weight model swaps token-by-token decoding for discrete diffusion, generating text in parallel blocks.

Google DeepMind·Text / LLM