Cognition SWE-1.6 Ships Free Coding Agent at 950 Tokens/Sec
Cognition released SWE-1.6, making it generally available in Windsurf with a free tier for three months. The model improves SWE-Bench Pro scores by over 10% at up to 950 tokens per second.
GLM-5.1 Ships Open-Weight 754B Model That Tops SWE-Bench Pro
Z.AI released GLM-5.1, a 754-billion-parameter open-weight model that claims the top spot on SWE-Bench Pro with a score of 58.4, surpassing Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4.
Meta Plans Open-Source Mango Multimedia AI Generator
Meta confirmed it will release open-source versions of its upcoming Mango multimedia generator and Avocado LLM, extending its open-weight strategy to next-gen frontier models.
DeepSeek V4 Will Run Exclusively on Huawei Chips
DeepSeek V4 will run exclusively on Huawei Ascend 950PR processors, marking a milestone in China's push to build advanced AI without American chip technology.
Gemma 4 Rewrites the Open Source AI Playbook
Google released Gemma 4, a family of four open multimodal models under Apache 2.0. The 31B dense model scores 89.2% on AIME 2026, quadrupling Gemma 3. For creators and developers building on open models, this changes everything.
Liquid AI LFM2.5-350M Runs AI Agents in 81MB on Mobile
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-350M, a 350M parameter open-weight model that runs AI agents on mobile GPUs in just 81MB with 32k context window.
Claude Mythos Leak Signals a Step Change for AI
A misconfigured data cache exposed Anthropic's biggest secret: Claude Mythos, an AI model the company says represents a step change over Claude Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity.
Anthropic Claude Mythos Leaks as Next-Gen AI Model
Anthropic accidentally exposed Claude Mythos, described as its most powerful model ever, through an unsecured data cache. The model shows major advances in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity.
Mamba-3: Can SSMs Finally Challenge Transformers?
Mamba-3 matches transformer quality at 1.5B parameters while running inference 7x faster. Three technical innovations close the SSM capability gap.
Meta Delays Avocado AI Model to May After Falling Behind
Meta has delayed the launch of its next-generation AI model, codenamed "Avocado," from March to at least May 2026. Internal testing revealed the model falls short of competitors from Google and OpenAI, landing somewhere between Google's Gemini 2.5 and Gemini 3 in performance
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Doubles Reasoning Performance
Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, reporting more than double the reasoning performance of its predecessor on key benchmarks. The model scored 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, a test designed to measure general intelligence capabilities