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Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. The dense vision-language model has a native 262,144-token context, adjustable reasoning, image and video input, and a live OpenRouter route while Qwen Cloud hosting remains pending.
xAI announced Grok 4.6 on 12 August 2026, tuned for long-running agents and ambitious visual work. It is live on OpenRouter with a 500,000-token context at $2 per million input tokens, and the release date is confirmed by the official announcement.
ByteDance released Seed 2.1 Turbo on 23 June 2026. Its OpenRouter route reached AZ Labs monitoring on 12 August with text, image and video input, a 262,144-token context, and pricing from $0.50 per million input tokens.
A practical model-routing experiment puts InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash inside Grok CLI, with the request verified through OpenRouter and the same route working in Pi.
OpenRouter now lists InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Tiny as a zero-price route with a 262K-token context window, switchable thinking and instant modes, and a 32K maximum output.
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