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📆 ThursdAI – Jul 31, 2025 – Qwen’s Small Models Go Big, StepFun’s Multimodal Leap, GLM-4.5’s Chart Crimes, and Runway’s Mind‑Bending Video Edits + GPT-5 soon?

📆 ThursdAI – Jul 31, 2025 – Qwen’s Small Models Go Big, StepFun’s Multimodal Leap, GLM-4.5’s Chart Crimes, and Runway’s Mind‑Bending Video Edits + GPT-5 soon?

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 This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sub.thursdai.newsWoohoo, we're almost done with July (my favorite month) and the Open Source AI decided to go out with some fireworks 🎉Hey everyone, Alex here, writing this without my own personal superintelligence (more: later) and this week has been VERY BUSY with many new open source releases.Just 1 hour before the show we already had 4 breaking news releases, a tiny Qwen3-coder, Cohere and StepFun both dropped multimodal SOTAs and our friends from Krea dropped a combined model with BFL called Flux[Krea] 👏 This is on top of a very very busy week, with Runway adding conversation to their video model Alpha, Zucks' superintelligence vision and a new SOTA open video model Wan 2.2. So let's dive straight into this (as always, all show notes and links are in the end) ThursdAI - Recaps of the most high signal AI weekly spaces is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Open Source LLMs & VLMs Tons of new stuff here, I'll try to be brief but each one of these releases deserves a deeper dive for sure. Alibaba is on 🔥 with 3 new Qwen models this weekYes, this is very similar to last week, where they have also dropped 3 new SOTA models in a week, but, these are additional ones. It seems that someone in Alibaba figured out that after splitting away from the hybrid models, they can now release each model separately and get a lot of attention per model! Here's the timeline: * Friday (just after our show): Qwen3-235B-Thinking-2507 drops (235B total, 22B active, HF) * Tuesday: Qwen3-30B-Thinking-2507 (30B total, 3B active, HF)* Today: Qwen3-Coder-Flash-2507 lands (30B total, 3B active for coding, HF)Lets start with the SOTA reasoner, the 235B(A22B)-2507 is absolutely the best reasoner among the open source models.We've put the model on our inference service (at crazy prices $.10/$.10) and it's performing absolutely incredible on reasoning tasks. It also jumped to the top OSS model on Artificial Analysis scores, EQBench, Long Context and more evals. It a really really good reasoning model! Smaller Qwens for local useJust a week ago, we've asked Junyang on our show, about smaller models that folks can run on their devices, and he avoided by saying "we're focusing on the larger models" and this week, they delivered not 1 but 2 smaller versions of the bigger models (perfect for Speculative Decoding if you can host the larger ones that is) The most interesting one is the Qwen3-Coder-flash, which came out today, with very very impressive stats - and the ability to run locally with almost 80 tok/s on a macbook! So for the last two weeks, we now have 3 Qwens (Instruct, Thinking, Coder) and 2 sizes for each (all three have a 30B/A3B version now for local use) 👏Z.ai GLM and StepFun Step3 As we've said previously, Chinese companies completely dominate the open source AI field right now, and this week as saw yet another crazy testament to how stark the difference is! We've seen a rebranded Zhipu (Z.ai previously THUDM) release their new GLM 4.5 - which gives Qwen3-thinking a run for it's money. Not quite at that level, but definitely very close. I personally didn't love the release esthetics, showing a blended eval score, which nobody can replicate feels a bit off. We also talked about how StepFun has stepped in (sorry for the pun) with a new SOTA in multimodality, called Step3. It's a 321B MoE (with a huge 38B active param count) that achieves very significant multi modal scores (The benchmarks look incredible: 74% on MMMU, 64% on MathVision) Big Companies APIs & LLMsWell, we were definitely thinking we'll get GPT-5 or the Open Source AI model from OpenAI this week, but alas, the tea leaves readers were misled (or were being misleading). We 100% know that gpt-5 is coming as multiple screenshots were blurred and then deleted showing companies already testing it. But it looks like August is going to be even hotter than July, with multiple sightings of anonymous testing models on Web Dev arena, like Zenith, Summit, Lobster and a new mystery model on OpenRouter called Zenith - that some claim are the different thinking modes of GPT-5 and the open source model? Zuck shares vision for personalized superintelligence (Meta)In a very "Nat Fridman" like post, Mark Zuckerberg finally shared the vision behind his latest push to assemble the most cracked AI engineers.In his vision, Meta is the right place to provide each one with personalized superintelligence, enhancing individual abilities with user agency according to their own values. (as opposed to a centralized model, which feels like his shot across the bow for the other frontier labs) A few highlights: Zuck leans heavily into the rise of personal devices on top of which humans will interact with this superintelligence, including AR glasses and a departure from a complete "let's open source everything" dogman of the past, now there ...
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