Chinese AI Labs Release Frontier Models Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, and MiniMax 2.5

Several Chinese AI labs have released new flagship open-weight models, including Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, and MiniMax 2.5. These releases represent a significant push in the frontier of AI development from these organizations. The article also introduces a new metric called Relative Adoption Metrics (RAM) to track model downloads and adoption rates within their respective size classes. AI

RANK_REASON This cluster details the release of multiple open-weight models from various labs, along with a new metric for adoption, fitting the 'research' category for OSS model releases.

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• DeepSeek
• GLM-5
• GPT-OSS
• Kimi K2 Thinking
• Llama 3.1
• MiniCPM-SALA
• MiniMax
• MiniMax-M2.5
• OpenThinker-Agent-v1
• Qwen
• Qwen 3
• Qwen 3.5
• Sebastian Raschka
• Tri-21B-Think

• model release
• paper

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