Open Weight

6 links tagged Open Weight on Pego’s Desk — hand-picked AI, agent and developer-tool finds, each with a note on what it is good for.

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Tagged Open Weight

September 20261 filed
Filed September 13, 2026
GitHub - cactus-compute/needle: 14MB foundation model for tiny devices; phones, wearables, smart home, and robots.
github.comrepository
14MB foundation model for tiny devices; phones, wearables, smart home, and robots. - cactus-compute/needle
AI #Open Weight
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August 20263 filed
Filed August 14, 2026
GLM-5.3
z.aitool
Z.ai's next model reuses the GLM-5.2 base and puts every gain into post-training — weights held back roughly two weeks this time, after training produced cybersecurity capabilities the team didn't plan for.
AI #Open Weight #Z.ai
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Filed August 10, 2026
Seed 2.1 Turbo
seed.bytedance.comtool
ByteDance's low-latency tier of Seed 2.1, on Volcano Engine — pitched as beating Claude Opus 4.6 at up to 80% lower cost for high-frequency agent workloads.
AI #ByteDance #Open Weight
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Filed August 1, 2026
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
huggingface.cotool
DeepSeek retrains its flash tier of V4 for coding, agents and tool use — 284B total parameters, 13B active, and a 1M-token context window.
AI #DeepSeek #Open Weight
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July 20262 filed
Filed July 27, 2026
Qwen3.7 Flash
help.aliyun.comtool
Alibaba's cheap, fast vision-language tier of Qwen3.7 — $0.03/M input tokens, a 991K context window, and no accompanying technical report.
AI #Alibaba #Open Weight
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Filed July 27, 2026
Kimi K3
huggingface.cotool
Moonshot open-sources a 2.8-trillion-parameter, 1M-context model — billed as the largest open-weight model released so far, with only 104B parameters active per token.
AI #Chinese LLM #Open Weight
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