Latest open artifacts (#19): Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, MiniMax 2.5 — Chinese labs' latest push of the frontier

It’s been a busy month at the top end of open-weights AI — with new flagship models from all of Qwen, MiniMax, Z.ai, Ant Ling, and StepFun. Still, all eyes are on DeepSeek V4’s pending release, which rumors continue to accelerate towards. Outside of the large, frontier models, this issue is a bit lighter on the long-tail of niche modalities and model sizes.ShareWith all these new releases, we’re tracking them with our new Relative Adoption Metrics (RAM), a measurement tool that normalizes model ...