# Zen 7 — Coming Next — Hanzo AI

> Zen 7, the next open-weight generation. Coming soon — apply for research access.

Zen 7

# Zen 7 — Coming Next

The next open-weight generation. Weights and reproducible checkpoints publish under Apache 2.0 upon final alignment. Apply for research access below.

[Apply for research access](https://hanzo.ai/beta)[Back to Zen](https://hanzo.ai/zen)

## What Zen 7 brings

Zen 7 is the next open-weight generation from Zoo Labs Foundation, built on the same lineage as Zen 6 but with expanded multimodal reasoning, longer context, and improved agentic coding performance. Trained with identity and agentic coding data from Hanzo's own platform.

## Research access

Weights and reproducible checkpoints publish under Apache 2.0 upon final alignment. Apply for research access to get early evaluation endpoints and participate in alignment feedback.

[Apply for research access](https://hanzo.ai/beta)