Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) is Alibaba's open-source LLM family, known for its Apache 2.0 license, 201-language coverage, and rapid iteration. The latest Qwen3.6 (2026/04) focuses on Agentic Coding — the 27B Dense version achieves 77.2% on SWE-bench and 59.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, on par with Claude Opus. A new Thinking Preservation feature lets agents retain reasoning context across turns.
2026 Q1 saw a full-blown open-source model explosion: on the LLM front, GLM-5, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3.5 caught up with closed-source models; Embedding and Reranker are dominated by Qwen3 and BGE; speech has Voxtral TTS and Whisper V3; image has FLUX.2; and video has Wan 2.2 rivaling Sora. This is the complete navigation map.
GLM-5 is a 744B MoE open-source model released by Zhipu AI (Z.ai) in February 2026, trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and released under the MIT license. It currently ranks as the top open-source model, surpassing Claude and GPT-5 on benchmarks like Humanity's Last Exam, while its API pricing is 1/5 to 1/8 of theirs.
Kimi is a large language model from Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, known for its ultra-long context window, open-source strategy, and highly competitive pricing. From 200K context in 2023 to K2.5 Agent Swarm in 2026, Kimi has become a force that the global AI market cannot ignore.