Z.ai's ZCode silently uploaded developer code 564 times
Z.ai's ZCode assistant tried 564 times to upload 313MB of workspace code to Alibaba Cloud without consent. Timeline, what was exposed, what to check.
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Best Local Coding Models by VRAM (September 2026)
Open-weight coding LLMs sized by VRAM: Qwen2.5-Coder, Qwen3-Coder, Devstral Small 2, KAT-Coder, GLM-4.7-Flash, and the trade-offs at each tier.
Best Open-Weight Models, Ranked by Capability (September 2026)
Seventeen downloadable-weight models ranked by capability and licence, with every parameter count and licence re-checked against the Hugging Face API.
Open Source AI Wins: A Chinese Lab Tops SWE-Bench, Alibaba Ships a 3B-Active Coding Giant, and Microsoft Tackles Agent Security
Z.ai's GLM-5.1 beats GPT-5.4 on coding benchmarks under MIT license. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B runs frontier-level code with 3B active params. Microsoft open-sources agent governance for all 10 OWASP risks.
Open Source AI Wins: GLM-5.1 Beats Every Closed Model on SWE-Bench Pro, Bonsai Fits an 8B Model in 1.2 GB, and MCP Hits 97 Million
An open-weight model tops the hardest coding benchmark for the first time. A 1-bit LLM runs on a phone. And the protocol connecting AI to everything just passed React's adoption curve.
Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 9: Six Labs, One License, and the Speed War That Decides Everything
Google, Alibaba, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, and Zhipu all ship competitive open-weight models under permissive licenses. The battleground shifts from benchmarks to inference speed on your actual GPU.
Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 5: Qwen 3.5 Dominates, Nemotron 3 Super Redefines Efficiency
Qwen 3.5's MoE models hit S-tier benchmarks, NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super delivers 5x throughput gains, and GLM-4.7-Flash brings frontier coding to consumer GPUs. The open-weight race just accelerated.
Open-Weight LLM Showdown: Qwen3, Llama 4, GLM-5, and Gemma 3 on Real Hardware
Forget the marketing - here's how the latest open-weight models actually perform on your GPU, from 8GB budget cards to 24GB workstations.