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GLM

Software

9 creators

Fine-tuning for style transfer and personality customization in AI companions

"Within open weights, you might want to start with the new GLM model which has fewer parameters but it's still a very long context window which gives you more flexibility. It's less locked into its training than the closed source models. And so if you go to ..."

Dave Blundin

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Product work

"GLM 5.3 just came out, which I used for a bunch of product work. It doesn't have a vision component, and it's sort of like this neurotic PhD you put in the corner. And they both have their role."

Anish Acharya

Automated hourly research via a cron job on a Bittensor subnet, with self-improving prompts

"Somebody gave me an API key to a Bittensor subnet that had put GLM-5.1 from Z.AI. And I was like, okay, I'm not being metered. Instead of doing this daily cron job to do research on something, I was like, give it to me every hour."

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Kimi

Software

6 creators

AI agent instruction and coding assistance

"In February I had a tweet about 'All I need is Kimi K2.5.' And in that brief moment, that was true. When I was instructing the agent, I was like, 'Oh my God, Kimi's just as good as these other models.' But then the game moved forward and I haven't used Kimi..."

David Heinemeier Hansson

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Automated nightly security vulnerability scanning of codebase — runs from 2am to 5am on cheap spot compute after each PR

"We essentially launch — it's Kimi K3 right now, but it's whatever open-source frontier model that doesn't require security checks — and we ask it to hack into the codebase and try to figure out vulnerabilities in the code. It's essentially free because we'r..."

Kush Bavaria

Used as a default model inside Cursor within Buzz for agent tasks

"Kimi K3 is the best out of all three of the new models, but it's also the most expensive. I highly recommend trying it out."

Riley Brown

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DeepSeek

Software

5 creators

Base model for his team's open-source harness

"We took the cheapest DeepSeek model and made it beat OpenAI's last frontier model using this harness, and the cost is 50 times lower."

Emad Mostaque

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Cost-efficient task execution in Cursor; near-free Google Sheets creation and general agent tasks

"DeepSeek V4 Flash is probably the most interesting because for certain tasks it is 105 times cheaper than Claude. I highly recommend trying these models. This model is 20 to 100 times cheaper depending on the task."

Riley Brown

AI assistant access while traveling in China

"When I'm in China for two weeks, it's DeepSeek and Gemini. Those are my friends. DeepSeek is intentionally crippled in China. It's not as good as it is here. It can't search the web and it is trained on different data as near as I can tell."

Jason Lemkin

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Qwen

Software

4 creators

Repairing existing images — fixing a label, replacing one object, localizing a headline, or correcting small visual mistakes without affecting the rest

"If the image is already good but one detail's wrong — Qwen. It's really good at repairing a label or replacing one object, localizing a headline, or correcting one small visual mistake, but you want to preserve everything else. So I use it as a repair shop ..."

Greg Isenberg

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Creating 'impossible documentaries' of Star Wars planets — generating scripts, directing video generation, and orchestrating audio

"In the last few weeks, I've been obsessed with Qwen 3 8B. It's very good at long horizon tasks, and it's actually really creative. It's a great storyteller. So, I've been using it to create these impossible documentaries, mostly of planets in the Star Wars ..."

Anish Acharya

Reading Twitter and Reddit 24/7 to look for market signals and customer pain points

"You can run mid-size good models like Qwen 36 pretty quickly on the DGX Spark, which is nice. Quinn 36, which is not quite as smart as GLM, I can have that reading Twitter and Reddit all day just looking for signal. That's a very simple thing to find."

Alex Finn

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