Section
MODELS
Generative AI models explained and tested: capabilities, benchmarks, hardware requirements, licensing and practical use.

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.
