Open-source and compact multimodal/edge stacks lower TCO

OpenCode (163k stars) offers Claude Code alternative with pay-per-token pricing. DeepSeek V4 MoE/Huawei Ascend + permanent 75% price cut; Qwen 3.7 Max (SWE-Bench 60.6); NVIDIA Nemotron/Gated DeltaNet-2; StepAudio 2.5 realtime voice model; efficiency gains drive enterprise TCO. MolmoAct2 open-source robotics model with 720-hour bimanual dataset beats π0.5. Benchmarks emerging.