Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed this month DeepSeek V4 Pro is the top open-weight model on the aggregate Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with a score of around 52 (May 2026). That is the broad cross-task index, not a single coding benchmark. The open-weight field has filled out fast — Qwen 3.6, Kimi K2.6, GLM-5.1, Gemma 4, MiniMax-M2.7 and Ring-2.6-1T all shipped inside roughly six weeks. The capability gap to closed frontier models is now about six to nine months — narrow enough that, for many workloads, cost and control decide the call rather than raw capability. Licence matters as much as the score — DeepSeek ships MIT, Qwen and Gemma ship Apache-2.0, and Meta keeps the Llama community licence. The permissive camp has effectively won the developer mindshare race. If you only want the benchmark…
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