EP219: 12 Open-source LLMs

Twelve open-source LLMs each have a standout strength in 2026. Llama 4 Scout is Meta's first natively multimodal open-weight model. DeepSeek V4 offers near-frontier performance under MIT license with a million-token context window. GLM 5.1 is the first open-weight model to top SWE-Bench Pro.