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Anthropic cut Opus 4.6 input pricing from $15 to $5 per million tokens. At that price it now undercuts Gemini and GPT-5.4 on input — and breaks the conventional cost-justification for tiered routing.
Read article →Pairing a cheap executor with an expensive Opus advisor that only speaks at decision forks. The numbers are hard to dismiss — and the mental model behind them matters more than the benchmarks.
Read article →Anthropic built a model that dominates 17 of 18 benchmarks and achieves 100% on cybersecurity tasks — then decided the world isn't ready for it. Here's what that tells us about where AI is headed.
Read article →Don't sleep on Mistral 7B. This openly available model punches above its weight, offering impressive performance and a permissive license – making it a crucial choice for developers.
Read article →Emu, a lightweight agent from DeepMind, consistently outperforms many larger models on complex reasoning tasks — and it’s incredibly accessible. Here’s why this tiny titan is a serious contender.
Read article →Grok is rapidly emerging as a surprisingly capable model from xAI, and deserves your attention beyond the media circus. Here’s an honest look at what it does well and where it still falls short.
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