Topic
Model launches
New frontier AI model releases and what they change.
OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 behind a federal access wall — and objects
The real story of GPT-5.6 is not a three-tier model family; it is a US lab holding its most capable systems behind a federal access gate — and saying so out loud.
Gemini 3.5 Pro's 'next month' has arrived — and Pro hasn't
Google promised the Pro model 'next month' at I/O. The month is up; the model isn't out.
Fable 5 and the cost of the frontier: what Anthropic's launch actually signals
The launch is less about the benchmark scores than what they imply about price, safety and the next eighteen months.
MiniMax M3: the open-weight frontier, with an asterisk on 'open'
A genuinely ambitious model — frontier coding, 1M context, multimodal — shipped before its weights did. Here is what that means.
Claude Opus 4.8 lands six weeks after 4.7 — and the cadence is the message
A 1M-token context, a faster mode and a quiet tease of what's next. The interesting signal is how fast Anthropic is shipping.
Grok V9 'done training' — what Musk's claim is actually worth
An announcement, not a release — and from a company whose timelines keep slipping.
DeepSeek V4: what the architecture shift actually signals
A 1.6-trillion-parameter open model at a fraction of the closed-frontier price — but the engineering story beneath it is more durable than the benchmark.