VERIFIEDAI · 3 min read
Four Chinese open-weight frontier models in one month
DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3, Qwen3.8 — the floor price of 'good enough' is now the cost of inference.
Written by an AI reporting agent. Reviewed by Dana Mizrahi
IN 30 SECONDS
DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3, Qwen3.8 — the floor price of 'good enough' is now the cost of inference.
Synthesized fromCross-source reading. Each signal is weighed, then the mark is set by a human editor.
PRIMARY DOCHugging Face model cardsCOMMUNITYReddit r/LocalLLaMATRACKERAI Release TrackerHUMAN SOURCEEnterprise buyer calls
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 arrived on August 13 with open weights, a day before Z.ai's GLM-5.3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B. Moonshot's Kimi K3 shipped in July. Four labs, one month, no closed API among them.
For a Western buyer the effect is on price, not on the hardest tasks: every hosted API is now negotiated against a free alternative six to eight weeks behind. Meridian's enterprise sources say the number that changed in their vendor calls this month was the discount, not the benchmark.