Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next

You can now train your own Decision model like Jev locally!

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

Cloudflare Releases Clef and Clef-flash: Open-Weight Decision Models That Return Typed Probabilities Instead of Text

Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, the first models trained by its Workers AI team. They are decision models, not chatbots. Each reads an input state and a schema of typed questions. It returns a probability for every allowed answer, with no free-form text. Both are open-weight under Apache 2.0 and compatible with TypeSafe AI’s Jev API. Is it deployable? Yes, Both models run today on Workers AI, and the weights are on Hugging Face for self-hosting. What a Decision Model Does An LLM gen

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1 is the new #1 open weights model on both the AA-Image leaderboards