**Full disclosure, we're the GitKraken team, and one of our devs has been tracking model benchmarks for a while now. Sharing because the trend line surprised us and figured this sub would have opinions.**

**The frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI) keep trading the top spot by a point or two every couple months. Nothing new there. What's actually moving is the open weight tier underneath them:**

* **GLM went 5.1 to 5.2 and picked up 11 points of intelligence in about two months**
* **Kimi K3 picked up 13 points over K2.6 in three months and is now sitting in 4th place overall, a few points off the leaders**
* **Deepseek's V4 Flash 0731 update leapfrogged their own V4 Pro model, and it was a fine tune, not a full retrain**

**Kimi K3 is popular enough right now that some providers are rate limiting or waitlisting it. Deepseek's approach (fine tuning an existing model instead of training a new one from scratch) seems like the more interesting engineering story here, honestly, more than the leaderboard position itself.**

**Curious what this sub is actually running day to day. Anyone switched their default agent model in the last quarter because a newer open weight release actually caught up, or is everyone still defaulting to whatever frontier model they started with out of inertia?**

Open weight models closed a big chunk of the gap on frontier models this year, here's the actual movement