Every edition of Cinco

Open models just got too cheap to ignore

1. Tencent open-sourced a 770B MoE under Apache 2.0 — and it edges Kimi K3 on code with a quarter of the parameters
2. GLM-5.3-Flash: an MIT-licensed 320B model served entirely on Chinese chips, at US$ 0.15 per million tokens
3. On real scientific software, the best coding agent solves fewer than half the bugs
4. GPT-6 Astra: same price, new benchmark ceiling — and a system card that says reasoning is getting harder to monitor
5. The government published the R$ 959 million tender for the Rio Grande do Norte AI supercomputer — bids due 8 October