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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

Comic-style man holding phone with LFM chat app in front of server racks with cables, illustrating local vs cloud AI models

350m vs 685b: liquid ai's tiny phone model takes on deepseek v3

Nick Trenkler 28 Jun 2026 1 min read

Armored figure scanning a 1998 newspaper stock page on a glowing table with OCR monitor in a cyberpunk setting

baidu unlimited-ocr meets claude opus 4.8: 1998 scan, clean table

Nick Trenkler 26 Jun 2026 1 min read

Rusted scale weighs openclaw's device pile against hermes' glowing tools, illustrating the ai agent rivalry between them.

openclaw vs hermes: what changed in 2.5 months

Nick Trenkler 24 Jun 2026 2 min read

Globe with highlighted US stuck in red turnstile under DENIED sign, hand scanning card, illustrating AI access restrictions

did anthropic see the fable 5 ban coming?

Nick Trenkler 22 Jun 2026 1 min read

Comic-style driver in Z AI suit interacting with holographic code panel inside a futuristic cockpit with glowing gauges

4 versions of glm, same 3 prompts – each one beat the last

Nick Trenkler 20 Jun 2026 1 min read

Illustrated mechanic with open wrench toolcase and glowing tool, representing Liquid AI's compact retrieval model toolkit

liquid ai ships two tiny search models beating rivals twice their size

Nick Trenkler 18 Jun 2026 2 min read

Illustrated figure in Cursor jacket forcing open a GitHub vault as envelopes with throughput stats spill out

cursor launches origin to take on github in the ai agent era

Nick Trenkler 17 Jun 2026 2 min read

Four robotic arms labeled GLM, Kimi, M3, and MiMo clashing over a cracking Earth globe in comic book style

4 chinese models, 1 animation task: glm spent 21 minutes and won

Nick Trenkler 17 Jun 2026 2 min read

spacex acquiring cursor. how we got here

Nick Trenkler 16 Jun 2026 2 min read

Armored eagle clutching Anthropic chip before the White House in neon illustration of the AI export control dispute

anthropic vs. the us government: how we got here, step by step

Nick Trenkler 16 Jun 2026 2 min read

Hooded figure shoveling glowing stars with a keyboard into a 42K crate in a neon-lit server room

skillspector grew 289% in one week – top github repos by stars

Nick Trenkler 16 Jun 2026 1 min read

Illustrated figure pouring glowing AI particles into another's open head in a dark workshop with a moat sign on the table

satya nadella just proposed a new model of the firm. here's the breakdown

Nick Trenkler 15 Jun 2026 1 min read

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