Guillermo Rauch’s Sept 19 Vercel AI Gateway snapshot put open-weight models at 78.4% of token volume (closed at 21.6%), with Moonshot and DeepSeek high on spend that day. That is a single-day peak above Vercel’s August monthly figure of 56% open-weight tokens and ~14% of spend.
Claude Code 2.1.277 (Sept 18) falls back to AGENTS.md when a project has no CLAUDE.md, with the behavior toggleable under Project instructions in /config. The change ships as a native “mod” preview; Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry do not support it yet…
Alibaba previewed Qwen Image 2.1 on Sept 20: multi reference conditioning that turns a three view character sheet into a six panel storyboard with clothing and appearance held across scenes. Diffusers docs describe a unified generation/editing pipeline; open weights remain listed as upcoming on ModelScope…
StepFun opened API access to Step 5 Preview on Sept 20: a proprietary 600B sparse MoE (27B active) with a 1M token context, vision input, and Artificial Analysis pricing of $1/$2.70 per million tokens (Intelligence Index 44). Company reported coding scores still trail GPT 6 Astra and Claude Opus 5 on several benches; open weights are planned for Oct 15…
Scalably’s Sept 19 field report: two RTX 5090s ran Unsloth’s Qwen3.8 27B NVFP4 via vLLM 0.27.0 for 14 days of real agent traffic—82.6% prefix cache hits, 28k requests, zero engine errors. A faster MoE lost the job on tool recovery (1/20 vs 12/20), so they kept the dense model…
Open Interpreter 0.0.45 (Sept 20) adds DeepSeek Flash and DeepSeek V4 Pro to the model picker; Flash supports image input and a 1M token context. Also fixes provider picker loading and a UTF 8 boundary issue…
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