https://anotheremoji.com Weekly updates to the Hitchhiker's Guide to Open-Weight Models. New models added, models considered and dropped, and the occasional towel advisory. en Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:15:00 +0100 https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20261012 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 A quiet release week spent checking the Guide's own homework: four significant models that shipped between April and August escaped the initial survey and are now aboard — Google's Gemma 4 (the biggest miss), Cohere's Apache-2.0 flagship Command A+, the 30B-A3B North Mini Code edge coder, and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, the 180B-A6B preview of the Qwen4 architecture now anchoring Hugging Face trending. Mistral's 1T Le Chonk waits for its October 27 weight drop. https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20261005 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Europe finally ships: Aleph Alpha's Kolibri (78B/3.46B German-English MoE, Apache 2.0) lands on Reunification Day as the Guide's first European entry. Meanwhile the frontier stayed quiet — Ling 3.1 Flash is API-only, Cloudflare's Clef is a classifier wearing a trench coat, and Nebius Reflection is still a rumour with a press release. https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20260928 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The week the open-weight crown changed hands. Xiaomi — purveyor of phones, rice cookers, and electric cars — shipped MiMo-V2.6 under MIT, and the Pro variant immediately became the highest-scoring open-weight model ever measured (AA Index 46.32). Plus a GLM-5.3-Flash backfill and a 5.9 GB ternary model that ends the 2-bit excuse... https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20260921 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 A quiet week for open-weight releases, but one entry cleared the bar: Shanghai AI Lab quietly posted a 744B agentic MoE on Hugging Face without a launch event, then published a 143-author paper three days later. The model beats Claude Opus 5 on five agent benchmarks. Meanwhile, Meta shipped Muse Spa... https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20260914 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 A quieter week at the frontier — the big labs shipped GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Gemini 3.8 Flash, but all proprietary. The open-weight action was in the small and edge tiers, where IBM finally shipped a reasoning model worth downloading and OpenBMB proved that 2.5 billion parameters is enou... https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20260912 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 A new page has appeared in the Guide. Not a model — something arguably more useful: a practical guide to not running out of VRAM. Because the most common sound in the known universe, after "hello", is "CUDA out of memory." https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20260912 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Week two of the open-weight galaxy survey, and it was a busy one. DeepSeek replaced its own flagship with a cheaper model that beats it — a move that either redefines the frontier or is a spectacular own goal, depending on your perspective. Tencent dropped 770B under Apache 2.0, IFM released the mos... https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html https://anotheremoji.com/changelog.html#20260831 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 First weekly scan of the open-weight galaxy. Four significant new models detected and added to the Guide. The galaxy got noticeably more crowded this week — Meta reversed its closed-weights pivot, Z.AI held weights for two weeks over cyber capability concerns, and Alibaba decided "Max" models should...