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Company news, model-bench updates, and practice announcements from Chels.ai, the sovereign AI infrastructure firm.
Ten open-weight LLMs shipped in August 2026: GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Hy4, DeepSeek V4. Params, context, licenses, and hardware tiers.
Chels.ai launches: we design, build, fine-tune, host, and maintain on-premise open-weight AI — Kimi K3, GLM-5.2 — for regulated firms in Canada and the US.
Two weeks, fixed fee. We map your data obligations and workloads, size the hardware, and hand you a written architecture with a real cost model — whether or not you build with us.
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