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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

Illustrated hacker pulling a glowing diagram sheet from a laptop in a dark office, evoking github's top diagram repo

top 5 github repos by weekly star growth. a claude code skill for diagrams pulled +14.4k stars

Nick Trenkler 20 Aug 2026 1 min read

Armored woman welding at a workbench with glowing voxel dioramas of a construction site, city crossing, and drawbridge

gemini 3.7 flash vs deepseek v4 pro 0813 vs muse spark 1.2 – on voxel city dioramas

Nick Trenkler 18 Aug 2026 2 min read

Two armored figures with laptops projecting holographic castles on a dark cliff, representing Grok vs GPT coding duel

grok 4.6 vs gpt 5.6 sol: who builds better 3d castles in one html file

Nick Trenkler 15 Aug 2026 2 min read

anthropic and openai aren't just selling you models. they're learning how to build what you already sell – with every prompt you send

Nick Trenkler 14 Aug 2026 1 min read

Two armored figures at terminals with code screens, a scoreboard showing 17/17 and 15/16 above a breakout game display

muse glimmer 30b vs nemotron 3.5 lightning – on agentic coding

Nick Trenkler 13 Aug 2026 3 min read

Illustrated robots sitting at school desks writing on paper under a chalkboard that reads TEXT

mai image 2.6 vs grok imagine image 2.0 vs gpt image 2 vs reve 2.1 – on text-to-image

Nick Trenkler 12 Aug 2026 3 min read

grok imagine image 2.0 vs gpt image 2 vs meta muse image vs nano banana 2 – on image editing

Nick Trenkler 11 Aug 2026 2 min read

Illustrated bar scene with cash registers showing prices, neon "Busted" sign, and receipt tape spilling onto counter

muse spark 1.2 vs gpt 5.6 sol vs kimi k3 vs grok 4.5 – on two landing pages

Nick Trenkler 10 Aug 2026 2 min read

Illustrated coder at laptop with glowing pixel-art biome bubbles floating from the screen, $0.09 price tag visible

12 animated canvas scenes, 1.19m tokens, $0.09 all in – ling-3.0-tiny wrote the briefs, ling-3.0-flash drew them

Nick Trenkler 7 Aug 2026 2 min read

Comic-style figure hammering a glowing "Model #8" block on a conveyor belt in a neon-lit factory

august 2026: 8 frontier models dropping this month – grok, gemini, gpt astra, and more

Nick Trenkler 6 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustration of a partially solved Rubik's cube under a spotlight with two price tags: $0.557 and $16.667.

qwen 3.8 max vs deepseek v4 flash 0731 vs kimi k3 vs gpt 5.6 sol – on rubik's cube and chess

Nick Trenkler 5 Aug 2026 3 min read

Illustration of a robot with umbrella under a streetlamp while three men examine phones — scenes from an AI video model test.

seedance 2.5 vs minimax h3 vs grok imagine 1.5 vs gemini omni

Nick Trenkler 4 Aug 2026 2 min read

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