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  Open models are now on Netlify. Starting today, the AI Gateway gives you access to hundreds of open models through OpenRouter, and Agent Runners include OpenCode, an open-source agent paired with open models picked for coding. Here's what that actually means for you.

  

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  Week 2 of #NetlifyBackToSchool is in the books, and three more builders are splitting 20,000 credits. Each of them shipped an app that taught us something we didn't know on Monday. Let's hear it for this week's three:

  

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  A recap for anyone catching up: last week the AI Gateway added hundreds of open models through OpenRouter, and Agent Runners added OpenCode with a curated set of open coding models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 3. Zero config, no API keys, same surface you already use. The launch post

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  Dana Lawson is on the new episode of the alphalist podcast with

  @Tobsch

  , making the case that writing code is no longer the job. She walks through the self-driving car analogy she uses for trusting AI agents: you cannot repair your own car, and you drive it anyway. The episode

  

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  Everyone is shipping with AI right now. Far fewer people can tell you what happens between "I have an idea" and "it's live on the internet." Colin Wren (

  @stripe

  ) and Seán Mc Ternan (Netlify) will do that whole build live on Tuesday, August 25 at 12pm ET. Colin will prompt his