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Alibaba's Qwen team has launched Qwen3.8 Max, a 2.4T parameter Mixture-of-Experts model offering 1M token context, native video perception, and deep agent tool orchestration.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has published Muse Spark 1.3, an open-weights frontier agent model with 1,048,576 context tokens and comprehensive multimodal comprehension.
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash as a generally available model for long-horizon coding, autonomous agents and enterprise workflows. The API keeps the introductory price of Gemini 3.7 Flash, with a one-million-token input limit and 65,536-token output limit.
OpenRouter has added Qwen3.8 Flash, the production model Qwen says is served through QwenCloud with a one-million-token context and built-in tools. Qwen published the related Flash-Next open-weight preview on the same day.
AIMI saw GLM-5.3 Flash reach OpenCode Go, OpenRouter, Cloudflare Workers AI and Ollama Cloud on 26 August. The route wave expands access to Z.ai's model, but Z.ai has not announced a separate Flash launch.
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash as a stable model for coding, agent workflows and multimodal reasoning. It has a 1,048,576-token input limit, 65,536-token output, and direct API pricing from $0.75 per million input tokens through 2026.
Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash on 21 July 2026 alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber, cutting output token usage by 17% against 3.5 Flash at $0.75 per million input tokens.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion parameter MoE powerhouse featuring 1M context, native video understanding, and leading mathematical reasoning.
