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Posts tagged: open-weights
July 17, 2026
Soofi Is Germany's First Open Model. It Comes With a Form, Of Course.
The first sovereign German open model was trained on the Munich cloud I just praised, tops the German benchmarks, and is arguably the most genuinely open thing in this whole story. To download it I had to fill in a form and wait. One step forward, two steps back, and I say that as a German.
July 18, 2026A Free Model Just Beat Fable at Coding. So Much for the Moat.
Kimi K3 topped the coding leaderboard this week, above Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and you'll be able to download the weights on the 27th. I got the geography of this wrong, and the moat was never where I thought it was.