Open-weight models now rival closed frontier models on coding tasks at a fraction of the cost. Alibaba's Qwen passed one billion downloads in January 2026. Nebius Group reports a customer cutting inference costs up to 26x. Cloudflare serves over 70 models at the edge.
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Z.ai's GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on coding with 1M-token context at 1/6 cost