
Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral Small 3.2 is a 24B dense model with strong function calling, multimodal vision, and 128K context under Apache 2.0 - optimized for production tool-use pipelines and EU-compliant deployments.
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Mistral Small 3.2 is a 24B dense model with strong function calling, multimodal vision, and 128K context under Apache 2.0 - optimized for production tool-use pipelines and EU-compliant deployments.

David vs Goliath: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B activates 3B parameters and beats Llama 4 Scout's 17B active on MMLU-Pro, GPQA, and coding benchmarks - but Scout's 10M context window and native multimodal support tell a different story.

Alibaba releases four Qwen 3.5 medium models - Flash, 35B-A3B, 122B-A10B, and 27B - that match or beat the previous 235B flagship at a fraction of the compute. The 35B model activates just 3 billion parameters and still outperforms Qwen3-235B-A22B.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is a 122B-parameter MoE model activating 10B parameters per token, narrowing the gap between medium and frontier models with top scores in GPQA Diamond (86.6), MMMU (83.9), and OCRBench (92.1). Apache 2.0 licensed.

Qwen3.5-27B is a 27B dense model that matches GPT-5-mini on SWE-bench (72.4) and posts the best coding and instruction-following scores in the Qwen 3.5 medium lineup. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a 35B-parameter MoE model activating just 3B parameters per token that surpasses the previous Qwen3-235B flagship across language, vision, and agent benchmarks. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Qwen3.5-Flash is Alibaba's hosted production model with 1M context, built-in tools, and multimodal support at $0.10/M input tokens - one of the cheapest frontier-tier APIs available.

Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on 13 of 16 benchmarks with 77.1% ARC-AGI-2, 94.3% GPQA Diamond, and a 1M-token context window at $2/M input.

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with native multimodal support and a hybrid attention architecture that runs 8x faster than its predecessor. Apache 2.0 licensed.

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 introduces a dual-branch transformer for simultaneous audio-video generation at 2K resolution, but cease-and-desists from Disney, Paramount, and Warner Bros. threaten its global rollout.

xAI previews Grok 4.20 with enhanced multimodal capabilities and further reduced hallucinations, building on Grok 4.1's success. The company also teases a 6 trillion parameter Grok 5.

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.5, a 397B parameter open-source multimodal model with 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, and performance that tops Python coding and math reasoning benchmarks.