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Nick Trenkler

Contributing Journalist & Content Creator at thehype. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Master’s in Marketing. He has been leading marketing for AI startups since 2024, with experience in media, digital strategy, and tech-focused content.

ARTICLES BY Nick Trenkler

Robot with a Google badge at checkout lane #8 hands over coins labeled +20 IQ, crossed-out FAST signs visible in background lanes

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 284 tok/s and IQ 55 — Fastest Smart Model

Nick Trenkler 19 May 2026 1 min read

Three men at a table under a red lamp, center figure places a paper reading +54000% between the other two

demis hassabis is the most efficient investor among ai lab ceos

Nick Trenkler 19 May 2026 1 min read

Gloved hand flips a sparking switch on a server room pillar, glowing cables connect small BOT devices across the floor

telegram just made bots talk to each other – and it changes how you build

Nick Trenkler 18 May 2026 1 min read

Comic-style man ripping cables from a glowing Kimi K2.5 cylinder, crossed-out OpenAI and Anthropic papers on the floor.

today's top-performing coding llm is built on a chinese open-source model from half a year ago

Nick Trenkler 18 May 2026 2 min read

Masked technician works on a GPU circuit board; monitor shows 50 crossed out replaced by 110, second screen reads GPU memory bar 54GB to 17GB

unsloth made qwen 3.6 27b run locally at 2x speed on just 18gb ram

Nick Trenkler 18 May 2026 1 min read

Young founder leans across a boardroom table under a spotlight, pressing a diagram while suited investors watch from the shadows

9 things a16z's speedrun team actually looks for in founders

Nick Trenkler 16 May 2026 2 min read

Figure with a server unit for a head reads a ratings sheet at a desk, mug labeled #1 beside it, dark background

24/7 news radio run by ai: how it's built and why it will outperform human media

Nick Trenkler 15 May 2026 5 min read

Man in suit extends an offer letter across a desk toward a server rack labeled IQ 136, resume stack discarded in a bin beside him

gpt-5.5 hits iq 136: new benchmark ranks 40+ ai models against humans

Nick Trenkler 14 May 2026 3 min read

Armored robot leans over a desk toward a man in a suit, papers labeled QUEUE and QUEUE_1138 scattered between them

thinking machines beat openai to continuous ai interaction

Nick Trenkler 12 May 2026 1 min read

Mechanic balances a scale with a glowing 5.1 chip on one side and a heap of broken circuit boards on the other under a lamp.

the ai split: raw capability vs efficiency, ernie picks side two

Nick Trenkler 11 May 2026 1 min read

Hooded figure holds up a glowing phone between two graffitied speakers labeled Gemma and Qwen in a neon-lit basement room.

minicpm-v 4.6 beats gemma and qwen on-device with 1.3b params

Nick Trenkler 11 May 2026 2 min read

Man with a crowbar pries open a heavy vault door stamped 007 in a graffitied alley as yellow light spills out from the gap.

cursor cli, codex, claude code: who wins the agent harness race

Nick Trenkler 11 May 2026 2 min read

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