We benchmarked the top models on our own coding... tasks. The results: - GPT 5.6 Sol (high) won on performance - Grok 4.6 (high) was the runner-up - GLM 5.3 Flash won on cost at comparable quality All 50%+ cheaper than our previous default (Opus 5)show more

🚨Breaking: Ox Alpha is GLM 5.3 Flash by Z.ai!... It's already available in Kilo, so we put it to the test. We gave the same prompt to both GLM 5.3 Flash and Gemini 3.7 Flash: Build a spectral audio visualizer. Costs: GLM 5.3 Flash: $0.01 Gemini 3.7 Flash: $0.17 17x cheaper for GLM 5.3 Flash. Who won on one-shot results?show more

Both Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol have been... performing exceptionally well on our leaderboards, ranking in the top 3 across almost all of our non-agentic tasks. We put both models through the same 3D design and website challenges to see where each excels the most. Watch the full breakdown on Youtube:show more

Grok 4.5 barely had time to enjoy first place.... Grok 4.5 Medium just took the top spot on LaurenBench with 56.9%, beating Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 5, GLM 5.2 and GPT 5.6 on real world agent tasks. And Elon says Grok 4.6 arrives next week. Looks like Grok 4.5 won’t be in the spotlight for long. xAI Grok / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Jannéshow more

HERMES AGENT NOW RUNS CLAUDE OPUS 5. NEAR FABLE... 5 INTELLIGENCE. HALF THE PRICE. SELF-VERIFIES ITS OWN WORK. AVAILABLE TODAY VIA NOUS PORTAL (20% OFF ALL MODELS). Anthropic shipped Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. but the benchmarks tell a different story. WHAT CHANGED FROM OPUS 4.8: FrontierBench v0.1: Opus 5: 43.3%. Opus 4.8: 18.7%. 2.3x jump on the same test. ARC-AGI-3: Opus 5: 30.2%. 3x better than the next closest model. beat Fable 5 on 8 out of 13 benchmarks. at half the cost ($5/$25 vs $10/$50). same price as Opus 4.8. twice the intelligence. no reason to stay on 4.8. THE SPECS: model ID: claude-opus-5 context: 1M tokens (default and maximum) max output: 128K tokens thinking: on by default effort toggle: low / medium / high per request fast mode: $10/$50, 2.5x faster knowledge cutoff: May 2026 minimum cacheable prompt: 512 tokens (was 1,024) SELF-VERIFICATION (the biggest change): Opus 5 checks its own work automatically. Anthropic says: delete your verification prompts. "include a final verification step" now causes OVER-verification because the model already does it. for Hermes /goal tasks this is a direct upgrade. the judge checks evidence. the model also checks evidence. double layer of verification without extra tokens. EFFORT TOGGLE: low: fast, cheap, routine work. medium: balanced, daily tasks. high: full reasoning, complex problems. set per request. not a global switch. matches Hermes /reasoning command: /reasoning low (routine) /reasoning high (complex) Opus 5 effort toggle + Hermes reasoning control = precise cost management per turn. WHERE OPUS 5 FITS IN HERMES: DAILY DRIVER (replaces Opus 4.8): same price. 2.3x better benchmarks. set as your main model: Desktop app / Dashboard: Models → claude-opus-5 CHIEF OF STAFF: synthesis across multiple agents. reads Kanban, prioritizes, routes tasks. self-verification catches routing errors before they cascade. COMPLEX CODING: SOTA on agentic coding benchmarks. FrontierBench 43.3% = best public model for coding. set as coder profile model. /GOAL TASKS: self-verification + completion contracts = the model proves its work AND double-checks the proof. long-horizon goals finish correctly more often. MoA AGGREGATOR: strongest synthesis model at $5/$25. pair with GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 as references. Opus 5 aggregates. best quality at mid-range price. presets: max-quality: reference_models: - provider: openai-codex model: gpt-5.6-sol - provider: xai model: grok-4.5 aggregator: provider: anthropic model: claude-opus-5 COMPUTER USE: near-Fable 5 quality for browser automation. at half the token cost per session. computer_use tasks burn lots of vision tokens. Opus 5 halves that bill vs Fable 5. WHAT TO KEEP OPUS 5 AWAY FROM: cron monitoring: too expensive. use DeepSeek or no_agent mode. sub-agent grunt work: use GPT-5.6 Luna ($1/$6) or DeepSeek. auxiliary tasks: use Gemini Flash. routine web extraction: use a cheap model. Opus 5 is for the turns where quality compounds. planning, synthesis, verification, complex reasoning. budget models handle everything else. NOUS PORTAL: 20% OFF ALL MODELS Nous Portal currently runs a 20% discount on all models including Opus 5. $5/$25 official → $4/$20 through Nous Portal. the cheapest way to run Opus 5 right now. hermes setup --portal select claude-opus-5 as your model. discount applies automatically. Opus 5 replaces Opus 4.8 everywhere. same price. better at everything. no tradeoff. straight upgrade. hermes update /model claude-opus-5show more

Claude Opus 5, Qwen 3.8 Max, GLM-5.3-Flash, Tencent Hy4... - frontier models sitting on FREE tiers right now: > HuggingFace: Tencent Hy4-preview, 770B MoE, open weights, self-host > TokenRouter: Qwen 3.8 Max free, up to 1B tokens, no card > ZenMux: GLM-5.3-Flash free tier, rate-limited > JustWoker: $50 free credits for Claude Opus 5, API access Four paths to frontier models at $0. The paid tier is becoming the backup plan.show more

Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash all along. Now it's FREE... on three platforms. > B AI: 100% free API, no card. Opus 4.8-level coding at $0: chat.b{.}ai/chat > AIHubMix: free coding tier, same model: aihubmix{.}com/model/coding-glm-5.3-flash-free > Z ai: official GLM chat, free directly from the lab: chat.z{.}ai 320B total, 18B active. 1M context, multimodal. MIT open weights. Beats GLM-5.2 at one-tenth the price. Terminal Bench 2.1: 84.3. Approaches Opus 4.8 on coding. A stealth model that topped OpenRouter for a week. Now self-hostable for free.show more

Ran 10 more tests comparing GLM 5.2 & Opus.... On average, GLM 5.2 produced 2x the tokens but was still faster + 3x cheaper with similar quality! I'm open sourcing all these tests tomorrow, including the code, my prompts, and the token/cost stats.show more

Qwen 3.7-max beats Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 We tested... three frontier models on a real agentic task: write a Tetris bot that plays the game and trains itself. Each model could read its own code, run benchmarks, and rewrite itself across 10 iterations. Then we compared the final bots head to head. Qwen 3.7-Max: training cost $1.32, bot improvement +56% Claude Opus 4.7: training cost $12.15, bot improvement +28% GPT-5.5: training cost $2.85, bot improvement +7% Qwen won on every dimension - biggest jump, 9× cheaper than Claude, 2× cheaper than GPT. Long agentic loops is where Qwen Max actually delivers.show more

Grok 4.5 performed GPT Sol level for free! We... gave 4 models the same prompt: build three self-contained HTML5 canvas scenes with real physics demos Prompts: -robot deathmatch, Tombstone vs Minotaur -a hydraulic press flattening stuff on a conveyor -a semi truck jumping a canyon Outputs: GPT-5.6 Sol: 12.9K tokens, $0.51 (~7 min) Grok 4.5: 10.8K tokens, $0 (~5 min) Muse Spark 1.1: 26.8K tokens, $0.12 (~7.5 min) GLM 5.2: 10.9K tokens, $0.02 (~12 min) Grok 4.5 handled all three scenes genuinely well and got surprisingly close to GPT-5.6 this round. On top of that, it ran on the free tier. GPT-5.6 Sol, the frontier model, put out solid but not standout work. GLM 5.2 rendered all three scenes for pennies, but it came out the roughest of the four. Meta's new Muse Spark burned the most tokens yet still stayed cheap, delivering an average result.show more

1-bit Kimi K3 performs at Opus 5 level on... 3D physics! We ran our Atomic Chat quant of Kimi K3 locally on 4x B200 against three cloud models and gave them all the same task, to build a giant anvil drop test as a single HTML file with real physics Outputs: K3 1bit (local): 15.8K tokens, $0 API cost Kimi K3 (API): 15.3K tokens, $0.30 API cost Opus 5: 22.8K tokens, $0.77 API cost GPT 5.6: 14.5K tokens, $0.72 API cost All four got the physics right. But only Kimi made a working winch. The drum turns and the chain drags the flat car off the pad. Opus 5 drew the most detail, road markings and sparks on the hit. And you can run a model at this level on your own box now. That still feels insane to usshow more

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a... MONSTER We've been testing for about a week Every 🪨 and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check: - Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works. HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results. - Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context. HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high. - Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark. - Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic. THE BAD: These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude. Anthropic is back baby! Read the rest on Every 🪨:show more

🔥 GLM-5.3-Flash Hits #1 on 🐮 GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha)... is now the most-used and most popular model on with cumulative token throughput surpassing 2.41 trillion tokens. As the first native omni-modal model in the GLM-5 series, it packs 320B total parameters, with 18B active, and features a hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture with a 1M-token context window. The result: lightning-fast responses, powerful reasoning, and outstanding cost efficiency. 🎁 Still 100% FREE on From high-frequency API calls and coding to complex Agents and long-document processing, jump in and experience the #1 model on for yourself! 👉 Try it free now:show more

Qwen 3.8 Max is actually impressive Sent a sky... pic to it along with Claude Opus 5, Kimi K3, and GPT 5.6 Sol, and asked them to draw an animal silhouette based on the cloud shape Qwen 3.8 Max is honestly on par with all the other modelsshow more

The gap between “here’s the design” and “here’s the... working app” is getting very small. Grok 4.6 took #1 on the VISTA leaderboard, beating Claude Fable 5, Opus 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol. It has to look at a real Figma design, figure out the structure, recreate the visuals, and build the functioning app from it. And it finished the benchmark at roughly $2.38 per task. That’s the kind of shortcut builders actually care about. Grok SpaceXAI / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Jannéshow more

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is now 90% off on... Nous Portal for the next 7 days, in partnership with Novita AI. At this discounted price, it is over 1000x cheaper than Fable 5 on comparable tasks while still beating it on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Try it today atshow more

The web’s next user isn’t human. AIs will soon... use the internet far more than humans ever have. At Parallel, we are building for the web’s second user. Our API is the first to surpass humans and all leading AI models (including GPT-5) on deep web research tasks.show more

You can now orchestrate Fable 5, Sol, and any... model inside Codex with one plugin. It's called Codex-Orchestration. Assign Fable 5 as the advisor, Sol as the executor, or any model to any role. Then define the order they work in. Codex handles the routing. I ran Fable 5 High as planner with GPT-5.6 Sol Extra High as executor on a set of issues Opus and GPT-5.5 always struggled with. Done in 30 minutes. 40% fewer limit hits. 2x faster implementation. Install it by pasting this into Codex: "Install Codex Orchestration: codex plugin marketplace add Cjbuilds/Codex-Orchestration codex plugin add codex-orchestration@codex-orchestration Verify the installation, then tell me to start a new task." Then assign your models: @ codex-orchestration advisor: Claude Fable 5 High, Executor: GPT-5.6 Sol High Open source. Tweak the routing however you want.show more

Right now, you may not have access to models... like GPT‑5.6 Sol, GPT‑4.6 Terra, GPT‑5.6 Luna, Claude Mythos 5, or Claude Fable 5. But you can run something surprisingly powerful today, locally, and completely free. in the next 10 mins on your 8 GB VRAM gaming laptop. Gemma 4 26B A4B QAT (MoE) delivers strong performance on a standard 8 GB VRAM GPU using Ollama, with no API, no usage limits, and no external dependencies. Out of the box, it reaches around 20 tokens per second without any optimizations. Only one command in your terminal: Ollama run gemma4:26b This means: Full offline capability (privacy by default) Zero recurring cost Competitive performance for many real world tasks Fast enough for interactive use on cheap consumer hardware If you're waiting for cutting edge cloud models, you're missing what is already practical today: a capable, local LLM that runs entirely on your own machine.show more

LongCat performed Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 level on... real physics tasks for $0! We gave 4 models the same prompt: build three self-contained HTML5 canvas scenes with real physics Prompts: - A cannon demolishing a brick wall - A bowling ball knocking down the pins - A tornado that sucks in random objects Outputs: LongCat: 18,015 tokens, $0.00 Opus 4.8: 18,872 tokens, $0.48 GPT 5.5: 32,588 tokens, $0.98 GLM 5.2: 31,062 tokens, $0.09 On the physics LongCat came out ahead of Opus 4.8 and GLM 5.2 - cleaner collisions, nothing clipping or falling through. On detail and rendering it matched GPT 5.5, the best looking of the four. Getting this quality for free is wild!show more

Grok 4.5 is sitting at #2 on the FrontierSWE... leaderboard. Above Claude Opus 4.8. Above GPT-5.5. So yes, the coding model conversation just got a little more crowded at the top. Strong performance is one thing. Doing it with serious speed, better token efficiency, and lower cost is where it gets annoying for everyone else. Builders love a smart model. SpaceXAI Grok X Freeze / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more