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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: sparse open MoE with a RAM-resident n-gram table.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: MIT Flash vision experiment.
GLM-5.3-Flash: hosted fast SKU if you did not want to self-host.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Alibaba's open-weight architecture preview of Qwen4: 125B multimodal MoE with 6B active plus a 51B N-gram table, 262K native context, at $0.16/M input.

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is the first V4 multimodal experiment: MIT vision weights on Flash, 305B params, screenshots plus text agents.

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GLM-5.3-Flash

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Zhipu's first natively multimodal GLM (confirmed as the 'Ox Alpha' stealth model): 320B MoE with 18B active, 1M context, MIT open weights at $0.15/M input.

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