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Models·Sep 18·all news from September 18, 2026

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks

Zhipu has released GLM-5.3-FlashX, a model optimized to achieve speeds nearing 200 tokens per second. This performance is supported by an infrastructure of approximately 100,000 domestic Chinese accelerators.

ModelsQwen3.8 Omni FlashGLM 5.3 FlashXGLM-5.3-Flash

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