A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026
If you have struggled a bit to keep up with open-weight model releases this month, this article should catch you up on the main themes.
In this article, I will walk you through the ten main releases in chronological order, with a focus on the architecture similarities and differences:
Arcee AI’s Trinity Large (Jan 27, 2026)
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5 (Jan 27, 2026)
StepFun Step 3.5 Flash (Feb 1, 2026)
Qwen3-Coder-Next (Feb 3, 2026)
z.AI’s GLM-5 (Feb 12, 2026)
MiniMax M2.5 (Feb 12, 2026)
Nanbeige 4.1 3B (Feb 13, 2026)
Qwen 3.5 (Feb 15, 2026)
Ant Group’s Ling 2.5 1T & Ring 2.5 1T (Feb 16, 2026)
Cohere’s Tiny Aya (Feb 17, 2026)
Update 1: Sarvam 30B and 105B (Mar 6, 2026)
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