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.
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DeepSeek V4: Open-Weight Frontier at 1/7 the Cost
May 2, 2026
DeepSeek V4 ships 1.6T MoE open weights with 1M-token context: 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $1.74/$3.48 per million — roughly 1/7 the output cost of Claude Opus 4.7.