Aug 19, 2026
29.5% on ARC-AGI-1 for 0.07 cents per task. The failure map is the best part.
Aug 17, 2026
Alibaba's first Max-class open weights arrive with no vision stack, thinking locked on, and a license that names its own products.
Aug 15, 2026
Z.ai shipped its strongest cyber scores and held the weights for two weeks of hardening. The UK's security institute has already measured what hardening survives on open weights, and what a window of time is worth.
Aug 13, 2026
Grok 4.6 Is a 2 Dollar Model Until Token 200,001
Aug 12, 2026
Microsoft handed fifty ordinary agent logs to Claude Code. It compiled them into about a hundred lines of markdown that recover, and twice beat, an entire reasoning mode.
Aug 11, 2026
An 82 percent guess rate, a 24GB fit, and a flagship going open.
Aug 9, 2026
Evo 2 ships open weights. The exclusion that constrains it does not.
A copy-paste template to decide whether an AI model, API, or agent should be adopted, piloted, watched, or rejected.
Aug 8, 2026
Model weights are the floor. Context, concurrency, runtime, and usable memory decide whether the deployment fits.
Aug 7, 2026
Meta shipped a terminal coding agent and a rate card with two prices for the same checkpoint. The gap between them is the story.