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Pattern recognition at scale — where the field is heading, who is converging on what, and which bets are compounding.
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The Affordable-Model Squeeze Is Coming for the Frontier
DeepSeek's flash tier and a wave of cheap, capable models are forcing the big labs into a choice: match on price and token plans, or differentiate on image, speed, and ecosystem. Neither option is comfortable.
3 min read
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The Open-Weights Gap Is Closing — And It's Closing Fast
A year ago, open-weights models trailed frontier closed models by a wide margin. Now the gap is shrinking quarter over quarter. Here's what changed.
2 min read
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Inference Cost Is the New Benchmark
Benchmark leaderboards are saturating. The metric that now decides model selection is cost per million tokens at acceptable quality — and it's reshaping how labs build.
1 min read