Mar 27, 2026
xAI Should Stop Pretending to Be a Frontier Lab
xAI has a genuine strength, and it is not competing with Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-5.2. It is...
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Mar 17, 2026
GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano: Benchmarks, Pricing, and What They're Actually Good For
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano on March 17, 2026. These are smaller, faster variants of GPT-5.4...
Mar 16, 2026
GLM-5 Turbo: Z.ai's 200+ TPS Agent Model Is Now on OpenRouter
GLM-5 Turbo is a new model from Z.ai, available now on OpenRouter. It is built for agent workflows,...
Mar 12, 2026
Cost Creep 2026: Gemini Flash Gets Worse While GPT-5.x and Claude Mostly Hold the Line
Cost creep is being used too loosely. A vendor raising list prices is not enough. The only definition...
Mar 9, 2026
GPT-5.4 Fast Mode: What It Changes and When to Use It
GPT-5.4 Fast Mode explained for Codex and ChatGPT users: what /fast changes, where speed matters, and when token...
Mar 3, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Cost, Speed, and Intelligence
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview dropped on March 3, 2026, positioned as a drop-in replacement for low-cost models. It...
Mar 2, 2026
Every AI Model Released in February 2026 — Full List with Specs, Pricing, and Benchmarks
Complete running list of every AI model launched in February 2026. Covers Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, and open-source...
Feb 13, 2026
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: 1000 Tokens Per Second, But Is It Actually Faster?
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on February 12, 2026, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex built for real-time coding. The headline...
Jan 23, 2026
HeartMuLa (3B) Is the First Local Music Model That Feels Close, But AI Music Needs Editing to Really Take Off
I do not think AI music takes off in a big way until we get good autoregressive models...
Jan 6, 2026
Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-5.2 vs GPT-5 mini: Quality vs Cost in 2026
If you are choosing between frontier models right now, the decision is rarely about raw intelligence. It is...
Jan 1, 2026
2025 AI Timeline: The Year Reasoning, Agents, and Video All Hit at Once
2025 had one loud message: the bottleneck stopped being whether a model can do a task and became...
Dec 30, 2025
Best LLMs 2025 Comparison: What to Use Now, and What to Stop Testing
Every few weeks, a viral post claims AI is lazy because a model failed a trick question about...
Dec 23, 2025
Seedance 1.5: A Low Cost Angle on AI Video Generation
Nine cents for a 4-second AI video – that’s the headline that makes anyone who budgets for motion...
Dec 17, 2025
Gemini 3 Flash Looks Imminent: Pricing, Nano Banana 2 Flash Leaks, and Why Tool Calling Is the Whole Point
When every major Google account posts three lightning bolt emojis in the same night, it is not subtle....
Dec 8, 2025
Enterprise AI Adoption in 2025: From Casual Chat to Core Infrastructure
OpenAI’s State of Enterprise AI 2025 report dropped some hard numbers on what’s actually happening inside companies. This...
Dec 2, 2025
Amazon Nova 2: Extreme Reasoning Tokens at Rock-Bottom Prices
Amazon released Nova 2 Lite and Nova 2 Pro today. These are reasoning models built for agentic workflows,...
Dec 2, 2025
From Slop to System: The 8 Steps to High-Quality AI Content Creation
Most AI-generated content is terrible. You can spot it from a mile away. Generic phrasing, surface-level insights, and...
Dec 1, 2025
Runway Gen-4.5 and the Video AI Wave: Three Major Models Drop on the Same Day
Runway just released Gen-4.5, their new frontier video model internally codenamed Whisper Thunder. The same day, PixVerse dropped...
Nov 29, 2025
How I Stay Informed and Prepared for AI Interviews: My Custom Dashboard and Gemini 3.0 Pro Prep
The day before Thanksgiving, I had an interview with the BBC. I finally got the actual recording, which...
Nov 17, 2025
Kimi K2 Thinking Aftermath: Great Agent, Mediocre Writer
Kimi K2 Thinking is being sold as the best model ever. It is not. It is one of...
Nov 15, 2025
Sherlock Dash Alpha And Sherlock Think Alpha: Quiet Grok 4.20 Upgrades On OpenRouter
Sherlock Alpha and Sherlock Think Alpha just appeared on OpenRouter with almost no announcement. They look like xAI...
Nov 12, 2025
GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking: What’s Actually New and What I’m Watching
OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 launch gives two operating modes aimed at distinct tradeoffs: Instant for low latency interactions and Thinking...
Nov 4, 2025
Minimax M2 vs GLM 4.6: Coding Powerhouses Compared on Cost, Speed, and Capabilities
MiniMax M2 and GLM 4.6 stand out as two strong options for coding and agent tasks right now....
Oct 28, 2025
MiniMax Hailuo 2.3: Where to Find the Latest in AI Video Generation
MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 and its faster variant, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, mark a clear upgrade in generative video AI....
Oct 15, 2025
Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5: Faster, Cheaper, Near-Frontier AI Coding
Claude Haiku 4.5 is available now. Frontload the conclusion: it delivers near-frontier coding quality while cutting cost and...