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Model Launches & Announcements

Stay informed about the latest AI model launches and announcements. We cover frontier models including GPT-5, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3, Kimi K2.5, GLM-5, MiniMax M2.5, and our own RIN and LeemerGLM models.

About AI Model Coverage

LeemerChat is Ireland's first platform to launch many frontier models, including Kimi K2.5 from Moonshot AI and GLM-5 from Z.AI. Our model coverage includes detailed launch announcements with benchmark comparisons, technical deep dives into model architectures, and real-world usage guides.

Whether you're interested in the latest GPT-5 capabilities, Claude 4.5's reasoning improvements, or want to understand how frontier models compare, our model posts provide comprehensive coverage with hands-on insights.

February 12, 2026Model launch

MiniMax M2.5 Is Live: SOTA Productivity Model for Real-World Office Work

MiniMax M2.5 launches on LeemerChat with breakthrough performance in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint generation. Scoring 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified and 76.3% on BrowseComp, M2.5 extends M2.1's coding expertise into general office productivity.

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LeemerChat Team
February 11, 2026Model launch

GLM-5 Is Live: Frontier Open-Source Scale for Complex Engineering and Agentic Work

GLM-5 launches on LeemerChat with major upgrades in scale, training data, and RL infrastructure. Built for long-horizon agentic systems, coding reliability, and complex reasoning under production constraints.

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LeemerChat Team
January 30, 2026Model launch

Kimi K2.5: Moonshot AI’s Frontier Multimodal Model, Now Live on LeemerChat

Kimi K2.5 brings state-of-the-art visual coding, 262K context, and self-directed agent swarms. We’re Ireland’s first AI platform to launch it — and it’s live free on LeemerChat.

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LeemerChat Team
December 19, 2025Model deep dive

Gemini 3 Flash Explained: Google's Fastest Frontier-Grade AI for Real-World Scale

Google's Gemini 3 Flash represents a clear shift in how frontier-level AI is delivered in production. Near-Pro-level reasoning and multimodal understanding while remaining fast, responsive, and economical enough for large-scale deployment.

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LeemerChat Team
December 15, 2025Model launch

RIN: Sharp. Fast. Precise. Our Free Unlimited Reasoning Model

Meet RIN (凛) — a 26B-A3B MoE model running at 450 tokens/second, completely free and unlimited. The precision instrument for builders who value speed over hand-holding. Semi-successor to LeemerGLM.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerChat
December 7, 2025New Drop

LeemerLite Drop: The 1,750 T/s Sandbox Powered by Groq

We just dropped LeemerLite: a super-simplified, no-signup chat running gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at world-class speeds. See how it stacks up against GPT-5 Nano, Llama 4 Scout, and Mistral.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerChat
December 7, 2025Model launch

Meet LeemerGLM: our Gemma 3-powered multimodal expert

A behind-the-scenes look at how we built LeemerGLM on top of Gemma 3 4B, why we paired it with a multimodal specialist, and how it slots into our expert panel.

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LeemerLabs Team
November 21, 2025Model comparison

We Let GPT-5, Claude 4.5, Grok-4.1, and Gemini Fight. Here's Who Won (And Why It Doesn't Matter)

We tested GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok-4.1-Fast, and Gemini 2.5 Pro across coding, reasoning, writing, vision, research, and speed. The results reveal why using multiple models in one chat is the future of AI.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerChat
November 2025Technical deep dive

Behind the scenes: How Leemer Heavy and Heavy (Fast) work

A deep dive into the union model architecture powering Leemer Heavy's iterative research orchestration and Heavy (Fast)'s rapid debate synthesis system.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerChat
November 2025Multi-model research

Welcome Deep Research: The World's Best Multi-Model Research System

How we built Deep Research by orchestrating three world-class AI models together, powered by K2-Thinking—the world's strongest reasoning open-source model. Plus a preview of Ultra version running autonomously for 3-4 hours.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerChat