Open-Weight Leaderboard Flips Again: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7, DeepSeek V4
Originally published on AI Tech Connect. What changed since April Eleven weeks ago the open-weight conversation had a single, fairly settled answer. It does not any more. Four flagship releases have landed back to back
Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed since April Eleven weeks ago the open-weight conversation had a single, fairly settled answer. It does not any more. Four flagship releases have landed back to back since April 2026, and the "best open-weight model" title has changed hands three times in that window. Here is the shape of it before we get into the detail: DeepSeek V4 Pro (24 April) opened the wave and briefly topped the open-weight field on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index. Kimi K2.6 (late April) from Moonshot AI landed within days, pushing hard on long-horizon agentic coding. MiniMax M3 (1 June) was the first open-weight model to pair frontier coding with a genuinely usable 1M-token context and native multimodality. Kimi K2.7 Code (12 June) followed less than a fortnight later, a coding-specialisedβ¦
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