MODELS
Generative AI models explained and tested: capabilities, benchmarks, hardware requirements, licensing and practical use.
HunyuanVideo-1.5: Tencent’s 8.3B Open Video Generation Model
HunyuanVideo-1.5 is Tencent’s 8.3B video model. Explore generation workflows, hardware guidance and Tencent’s custom license restrictions.
VideoCrafter: Tencent AI Lab’s Open Text- and Image-to-Video Toolbox
VideoCrafter is an open-source AI video generation toolbox with text-to-video and image-to-video models, inference scripts and a Gradio demo, including VideoCrafter1 and VideoCrafter2. License: Research/non-commercial restrictions.
Wan 3.0: Alibaba’s New AI Video Model
Wan 3.0 explained using Alibaba’s documentation: video generation, native audio, references, API access and the distinction from open-weight Wan releases.
DeepSeek Ships an Experimental Vision Model, Claims It Rivals Opus 4.8 on Agent Tasks
DeepSeek quietly released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a multimodal variant the company says closes the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks that require visual understanding.
The Mystery Model That Turned Out to Be Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash
For six days, an anonymous model called 'ox-alpha' ran free on OpenRouter and OpenCode with no declared owner. Then Z.ai confirmed it: the mystery model was GLM-5.3-Flash all along.