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OpenRouter artwork for the Qwen3.8-27B model route
AI Research14 Aug 2026

Qwen3.8-27B Ships Open Weights with 262K Context

Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. The dense vision-language model has a native 262,144-token context, adjustable reasoning, image and video input, and a live OpenRouter route while Qwen Cloud hosting remains pending.

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AZ Labs artwork showing the dots3-note preview name and its core model specifications
AI Research14 Aug 2026

Dots3-Note Preview Opens a 280B Multimodal Agent Model

Dots Studio has released dots3-note preview, its first open-weight dots3 model. The multimodal MoE has 280 billion total parameters, 16 billion active parameters, a 512K context window, and an Apache 2.0 release.

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Official Google DeepMind artwork for Gemini 3.7 Flash
AI Research13 Aug 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Now Generally Available

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash as a stable model for coding, agent workflows and multimodal reasoning. It has a 1,048,576-token input limit, 65,536-token output, and direct API pricing from $0.75 per million input tokens through 2026.

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ByteDance Seed 2.1 Turbo listing artwork from OpenRouter
AI Research12 Aug 2026

ByteDance Seed 2.1 Turbo Reaches OpenRouter After Its June Release

ByteDance released Seed 2.1 Turbo on 23 June 2026. Its OpenRouter route reached AZ Labs monitoring on 12 August with text, image and video input, a 262,144-token context, and pricing from $0.50 per million input tokens.

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