the pace of model releases in 2026 has become genuinely hard to track. a few years ago, a major new language model was a multi-month event. today, labs ship on
Nick Trenkler
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for the third week in a row, andrej-karpathy-skills by @jiayuan_jy keeps its position among the most-starred github repositories with over 24k stars gained in the last 7 days also,
Nick Trenkler
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should you spend $5K on a Mac Studio or an RTX 5090 for local AI? in this short guide you'll learn: 1. more memory vs more speed – what
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42 ai model releases in just 4 months all across 8 top labs. here's the breakdown: chinese labs: 24 releases us labs: 18 releases who shipped the most:
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tencent just open-sourced a translation model that fits in 440mb and beats models 500x its size how? they compressed a 3.3gb model by storing weights in basically 1 bit
Nick Trenkler
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codex is now built for long tasks. but not for users yet? we called it yesterday: openai is optimizing agents for long-horizon thinking. now thibault sottiaux, codex team lead at
Nick Trenkler
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Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) has had one of the most extraordinary careers in tech. He started as a chess prodigy and video game designer at 17 before getting a PhD in
Nick Trenkler
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a nine-person jury was seated on monday in a federal courthouse in oakland, california, in one of the most consequential tech trials in history. opening arguments began tuesday. on one
Nick Trenkler
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ming-chi kuo (the analyst who called basically every apple product before it launched) says openai is working with qualcomm + mediatek on a custom processor, with luxshare as manufacturing partner. mass
Nick Trenkler
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7 ycombinator startups from the winter 2026 batch that raised beyond the standard $500k check – all niche @ycombinator sees it clearly: ai is maturing. building one-for-all ai tool does not
Nick Trenkler
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meta has been researching ai since 2013. xiaomi only started in 2016. meta spent $57.4b on r&d in 2025. xiaomi spent $4.8b – 12x less. meta released
Nick Trenkler
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why is no big tech investing in xai? google just put $10b into anthropic. amazon is in both openai ($50b) and anthropic ($5b+). microsoft has stakes in both too but
Nick Trenkler
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for two years, the dominant ai story was simple: america builds the frontier, china copies later. that story is breaking. by april 2026, the clearest usage data from openrouter shows
Nick Trenkler
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- top-1 on artificial analysis intelligence index, above opus 4.7, gemini 3.1, and gpt-5.4 - beats opus 4.7 on almost every benchmark. one exception: swe-bench pro
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anthropic has serious problems with models or is it just lack of gpus? they’ve opened claude desktop to third-party inference (openrouter, local models) after years of locking agents to
Nick Trenkler
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