I am currently testing the NeoStack AI Plugin by BETIDE STUDIO for AI assisted Unreal Engine game development. The NeoStack AI plugin is currently in Beta, and the original beta was released on the Epic FAB store on January 20, 2026. I am currently testing the latest beta version (v0.3.1) which was released on 2/9/2026. […]
The GLM-4.7 Flash model, an Open Weight 30B-parameter Mixture of Agents (MoE) variant, released by Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd on January 19, 2026, is positioned as a lightweight, efficient option for local deployment and agentic tasks like coding. The Lunar Lander coding simulation coding test ran without any problems at 6.12 tokens per […]
Over the past 6 months, I have continued to test locally hosted open-source multimodal agentic models which could run comfortably on my Nvidia RTX 3080 with 10GB. Back in the August, I added GLM 4.5 to my testbench as it was surpassing or matching DeepSeek V3, Qwen 2.5 Coder, and Llama 3.1 in benchmarks. At […]
OpenAI released GPT‑5 today and it is now state-of-the-art (SOTA) across key coding benchmarks, scoring 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified and 88% on Aider polyglot. SWE-bench Verified: (Tests AI models on real-world GitHub issues, evaluating their ability to generate accurate code patches) GPT-5 with Thinking (High) scored highest with 74.9%, followed closely by Claude Opus 4.1 […]
OpenAI released their new Open Weights local LLM model today under the Apache License that you can download and run it locally on your own hardware without the need of a cloud subscription. The larger 120 billion parameter model will require a system with an 80GB GPU (who has that!?) or a MAC M3/M4 system […]
In preparation for my presentation for my July 2025 CGDC presentation on AI Assisted Game Development Tools, I spent a lot of time beta testing the latest beta version of the Ludus AI Blueprints Toolkit for the Unreal Game Engine using Unreal 5.6. I did my Blueprints testing using their 14 Day free Pro Subscription […]
For the past several months, I have been co-developing a Moon Landing simulation game using several different open source LLM models running “locally” on my Alienware Aurora 11 GeForce RTX-3080 10GB VRAM video card. Running LLMs locally using my RTX 3080 is completely free compared to using cloud based LLMs. In my last blog post […]
OpenAI has released o3-mini (“o” for “Omni, not zero”) which is a step up in performance from o1-mini. I have been reviewing OpenAI’s performance charts their new o3 reasoning model and it is scoring pretty well on CodeForces, Software Engineering (SWE-bench verified), and on LiveBench coding. We will continue testing their o1 & o3 reasoning […]
OpenAI has released a version of GPT-4o (“o” for “Omni”), o1 Preview (code named Strawberry) which could revolutionize the way we develop code. It is much better at computer programming (aka coding) than any of their previous AI models. Looking at OpenAI’s performance charts the new o1 reasoning model is scoring pretty well on […]
