Four Chinese Labs Just Hit Frontier-Class Coding in 12 Days
DeepSeek V4, GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7, and Kimi K2.6 all shipped open-weights coding models in 12 days at frontier capability, each with lower inference cost than Claude or GPT.
AI & Hardware desk · AI & ML, Hardware
Maya Iverson
Covers AI models and the chips underneath them, from the model cards and spec sheets.
Maya covers the technology layer of AI and the silicon underneath it. She's the byline you want when a model gets released, a benchmark gets gamed, or a chip vendor changes the math on inference economics.
