Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July:
- Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it's open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so you need to license it (or use their paid API) if you want to use it commercially.
- San Francisco AI startup Deep Cogito released four open weights hybrid reasoning models, cogito-v2-preview-deepseek-671B-MoE, cogito-v2-preview-llama-405B, cogito-v2-preview-llama-109B-MoE and cogito-v2-preview-llama-70B. These follow their v1 preview models in April at smaller 3B, 8B, 14B, 32B and 70B sizes. It looks like their unique contribution here is "distilling inference-time reasoning back into the model’s parameters" - demonstrating a form of self-improvement. I haven't tried any of their models myself yet.
- Mistral released Codestral 25.08, an update to their Codestral model which is specialized for fill-in‑the‑middle autocomplete as seen in text editors like VS Code, Zed and Cursor.
- And an anonymous stealth preview model called Horizon Alpha running on OpenRouter was released yesterday and is attracting a lot of attention.
Recent articles
- Reverse engineering some updates to Claude - 31st July 2025
- Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM - 31st July 2025
- My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX - 29th July 2025