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DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale

DeepSeek released V3.2 Speciale on November 28, 2025, a high-compute variant optimized for reasoning and agentic tasks with open weights.

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Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-weights reasoning model designed for agentic and long-horizon tasks.

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GLM 4.6

Z.ai released GLM-4.6 on September 29, 2025, expanding the context window from 128K to 200K tokens and improving coding performance, reasoning, and tool use capabilities.

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DeepSeek V3.2 Exp

DeepSeek released V3.2 Exp on September 29, 2025 as an experimental model between V3.1 and future versions, with weights available openly.

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DeepSeek released V3.1 Terminus on September 22, 2025, a 671B parameter hybrid reasoning model that fixes language consistency and agent capability issues in V3.1 while maintaining performance comparable to R1 on difficult benchmarks.

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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI released gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, a 20 billion parameter safety reasoning model, on September 18, 2025 as open weights.

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Kimi K2 0905

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 0905 on September 3, 2025, a 1 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 32 billion active parameters per forward pass, extending context length to 256k tokens and improving agentic coding and frontend generation…

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Upcoming AI Socratic Dinners in New York and San Francisco

AI Socratic is hosting two dinners - Sep 10th at Solana Skyline in New York and Sep 17th at the Frontier Tower in San Francisco - with Socratic discussion of the latest AI news, demos and presentations, plus AI Engineer NYC on Nov 20-22.

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DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek released V3.1, a 671-billion-parameter hybrid reasoning model with 37 billion active parameters that supports both thinking and non-thinking modes.

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DeepSeek V3.1 Base

DeepSeek released DeepSeek V3.1 Base on August 19, 2025, a 671B parameter open-weights mixture-of-experts model with 37B active parameters, 128K context length, and training on 14.8T tokens.

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gpt-oss-20b (free)

OpenAI released gpt-oss-20b, a 21 billion parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Alibaba released Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct on July 31, 2025, a 30.5B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 256K token context designed for code generation, repository understanding, and tool use.

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