Topic
Model launches
New frontier AI model releases and what they change.
OpenAI3mo ago
OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 to 20 government-picked partners
OpenAI complied with a federal access gate in a day, then called it a mistake. Neat trick.
4 min read · 26 June 2026
Google3mo ago
Google said Gemini 3.5 Pro was 'next month'. The month's over.
Flash shipped. Pro got a date-shaped promise. Guess which one you can actually use.
3 min read · 23 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago
Fable 5 is here. The benchmark flex is real — the moat isn't.
The chart goes up. That's the easy part.
3 min read · 9 June 2026
MiniMax4mo ago
MiniMax shipped an 'open-weight' model with no weights. Bold.
Frontier claims, vendor benchmarks, and a Hugging Face link that wasn't there yet.
3 min read · 1 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago
Opus 4.8: the benchmarks crept up, but the fast mode is the actual upgrade
Five points on a coding benchmark. A 2.5× speed-up. Guess which one you'll actually feel.
4 min read · 28 May 2026
xAI4mo ago
Musk says Grok V9 is trained. We've heard this tune.
A finished-training tweet is not a shipped model — especially from xAI.
3 min read · 25 May 2026
DeepSeek5mo ago
DeepSeek V4: the benchmark is the distraction. The chip pivot isn't.
1.6 trillion parameters, open weights, cheaper than the competition — and the real news is none of that.
3 min read · 24 April 2026