openPangu-2.0-Pro: Huawei's 505B Ascend-Native LLM
Huawei releases openPangu-2.0-Pro — a 505B parameter open-weight MoE model trained entirely on Ascend 910B NPUs. Architecture breakdown, hardware sovereignty implications, and honest assessment.
Huawei releases openPangu-2.0-Pro — a 505B parameter open-weight MoE model trained entirely on Ascend 910B NPUs. Architecture breakdown, hardware sovereignty implications, and honest assessment.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 exits preview with 82.7 Terminal-Bench and 54.4 DeepSWE. 284B/13B MoE, 1M context, MIT license, at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens. Agent benchmarks beat V4-Pro-Preview.
Qwen 3.8 Max is Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal flagship with 1M context, MoE architecture, and top Arena.AI rankings. Specs, pricing, and how to access it on SandBase.