RADAR ARCHIVE

Week 17, 2026

3 tools added to the directory and 5 launches tracked, Apr 20 – 26, 2026.

Added to the directory (3)

Tested and written up.

High-volume DeepSeek inference with a 1M-token context window
Added Apr 24, 2026
DeepSeek V4-Flash is the efficient sibling of V4-Pro, offering a 1M-token context window and configurable thinking modes at a fraction of the API cost
Why: V4-Flash delivers the same 1M context and thinking modes as V4-Pro at roughly one-third the API cost, making it the practical default for most production workloads.
Freemium Best for High-Volume APIs Visit
Tencent's latest open-source MoE flagship with tool use
Added Apr 22, 2026
Open-weight preview of Hunyuan 3 (Hy3), a 295B-parameter MoE model with 21B active parameters and a 262K context window
Why: Tencent's strongest open-source Hunyuan model to date, with competitive coding and agentic benchmarks.
Freemium Best for Coding and Agents Visit
Moonshot's open-weight multimodal successor with long-context coding stability
Added Apr 21, 2026
Kimi K2
Why: Kimi K2.6 improves on K2.5 with stronger long-context coding and is a practical open-weight alternative for teams that want multimodal agents without the cost of closed frontier models.
Freemium Best for Long-Context Coding Visit

On the radar (5)

Reported in the daily briefing this week. Not reviewed for the directory.

Bloomberg Technology 2026-04-21 8.65

OpenAI Unveils New Image Model Thats Better at Charts and Diagrams

OpenAI is releasing an update to its artificial intelligence image-generating software that it says will let users create accurate, complex charts and scientific diagrams, part of a bid by the company to make its technology more appealing to professionals.

Bloomberg Technology 2026-04-22 7.69

Google Cloud Debuts New AI Chips and Next-Generation TPUs

Google Cloud is highlighting its latest tensor processing unit generation and how Alphabet is tying custom AI accelerators to cloud bundles, ecosystem bets, and partnership lines that steer who gets priority capacity for training and inference. (Source: Bloomb…