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shopify.engineeringShopify Engineering explains how its Sidekick assistant hands token-heavy work, such as GraphQL queries, to open models Shopify post-trains and serves itself, and the loop it uses to build those task-specific models.
shopify.engineeringAdded Oct 22, 20260 opensAllen Institute for AI (Ai2) post from October 7, 2026 on its byte-level language model research appearing in Nature, with released checkpoints applying its "byteifying" method to Qwen 3 8B and Llama 3 8B.
Site of Reflection AI, an AI company building open superintelligent systems and coding agents.
Xiaomi's MiMo family of open language and reasoning models, with weights and technical reports published free for anyone to download and run.
Why I recommend it: Free open weights — worth knowing about if you want to run a capable model yourself.
A hands-on write-up of wiring Google's open Gemma 4 model into the Codex command-line coding agent so it runs locally instead of calling a hosted API.
From the site: I wanted to know whether Gemma 4 could replace a cloud model for my day-to-day agentic coding. Not in theory, in practice. I use Codex CLI…
Why I recommend it: Useful if you want to try coding agents without paying per token — local models are slower, but free and private.
Alibaba's Qwen family of open AI models with a free chat assistant for writing, coding, image and document work in the browser.
Why I recommend it: A strong free alternative when you want a capable assistant without a subscription.
Z.ai's technical announcement for the GLM-5.2 model, covering what changed and how it performs.
Why I recommend it: Skim releases like this so you know which free models are actually current.
