Alternatives to Nex-N2.5-mini

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.

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

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.