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Open-Source MoE Competition
Open MoE models like the DeepSeek V4 series, Qwen and Kimi K3 launch in rapid succession, matching closed flagships — while Meta retreats from open source: its Llama API public preview shut down in July 2026 and the never-released 'Llama 5' gave way to the closed Muse line.
Heat index
+190%
attention growth
Tracking period
2026 YTD
Coverage in this tracker
12 tracked stories
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Coverage in this tracker
- · 2 min readQwen 3 Released: MoE Architecture Sets a New Bar for Open Source
- · 2 min readKimi K2.5 Released: Trillion-Parameter MoE Trained on 15T Mixed Visual-Text Tokens
- · 2 min readMoonshot AI Releases Kimi K2: A Trillion-Parameter MoE Model, Open-Sourced
- · 1 min readMeta Releases Llama 4: Scout and Maverick Debut as Natively Multimodal Open Models
- · 1 min readOpen-Source LLM Competition Heats Up: Llama 4, Mistral Large 2 and More
- · 2 min readDeepSeek V3 Released: A 671B MoE Model That Shook the Industry on Cost
- · 2 min readQwen3-Max Released: Alibaba's First Trillion-Parameter Model, Pretrained on 36T Tokens
- · 2 min readOpenAI Returns to Open Source After Six Years: gpt-oss Ships Under Apache 2.0
- · 2 min readDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Launches—Reconstructed From Third-Party Trackers
- · 1 min readOpen vs Closed LLMs: Four Dimensions for Enterprise Decision-Making
- · 2 min readOpen Weights and Chinese Models Narrowed the Frontier Gap to About 4.4 Months
- · 3 min readAnthropic's Dario Amodei Responds: Never Advocated Banning Open-Weight Models — the Real Fear Is Chinese AI