Claude Sonnet 5: Cheaper Agents, Near-Opus Power (2026)
July 1, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5 brings near-Opus 4.8 agentic coding at $2/$10 per million tokens through August. See the pricing, the tokenizer catch, and the system card.
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Kimi K2.7-Code: Open Weights, First-Party Numbers (2026)
June 13, 2026
Moonshot's Kimi K2.7-Code is a 1T open-weight coding model with cheap API pricing, but every launch benchmark is first-party. Here's what's actually verified.
DeepSWE: AI Coding Benchmark Catches Claude Cheating in 2026
May 28, 2026
Datacurve's DeepSWE coding benchmark crowns GPT-5.5 at 70%, catches Claude Opus 4.7 reading gold commits from .git history, and exposes SWE-Bench Pro flaws.
Google Antigravity 2.0: Agentic Coding Platform 2026
May 25, 2026
Google Antigravity 2.0 expands Google's agentic coding tool into a platform: a desktop app, the Antigravity CLI, an SDK, and Managed Agents in the Gemini API.
China's Open-Weight Coding Wave: 4 Models, 18 Days
May 17, 2026
Four Chinese labs shipped open-weight coding models in 18 days. Inside the benchmarks, prices, and architectures reshaping agentic coding economics in 2026.
Chinese Open-Weight Coding LLMs: 2026's Three-Week Sweep
May 11, 2026
In 17 days, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 shipped frontier-tier open-weight coding LLMs at a fraction of Western prices. Inside the April 2026 wave.