KI-News 01-07-2026

[Theo Gottwald]

Since the last update -

1. Crashes with CODEX Desktop App. OpenAI Codex is the most versatile KI-System from all tested.
It just can do nearly everything.

2. GLM - partly recommended
Found out that the GLM-Desktop App contains a Trap (Skills), if you select these it will eat up Tokens ... permanently. Since the last Update, GLM can be partly recommended.

3. Kimi improved their desktop App again meanwhile.
While they can not beat the competition with a new model, they improve their design.
However they also have a hidden Trap. Besides the weekly, and hourly usage limits there is
a "hidden" monthly usage limit.
Its not visible on the normal usage site, you will need to search for where it is.
Otherwise you wil run into that monthly limit not knowing why its not working any more.



Moonshot AI often looks like a typical chinese Female works in their design office. It looks just nice.


If you want a extremely cheap Coding Plan, thats perfect for smaller context tasks ("Make me a concept/subroutine for XY"
Minimax Coding Plan
is unbeaten.

Minimax is not the strongest Model when it needs to use a large context window. For smaller Tasks its really Top.
Especially the Coding Plan is from my testings the most efficient.

I used it wherever possible, trying to use all available Tokens, gave it Tasks, let it run as Subagent for kimi and for GLM and for OpenAI. They like to use it - but no chance, i will end this week with not all Tokens used. If you want a cheap coding plan then this is for you. You can try the performance of M3 on their web-page and check if its ok for your tasks.
Where i used it? It has made all the concepts and raw code for the new enhancements for PBXB64. The Implementation was done by other models because that a Task involving a large codebase.

AND HERE you get it -12% cheaper!
MinimaxM3 Coding Plan

For everthing else i can recommend Deepseek V4 Flash. And they will increase their prices *2 soon, see: