Nick Trenkler
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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:
@alibaba_qwen – 8 models
@openai – 7 models
@zai_org – 7 models
@minimaxai_ – 6 models
ai in 2026 is less about breakthroughs and more about staying visible. the us is losing that battle
hermes is now officially faster than codex. here's how they did it hermes was losing to codex 6–5 across 11 benchmark tasks measuring real-world cli speed – things
- on april 18th, elon said the next model (grok 4.4) would have 1t parameters and release in early may - grok 4.5 was planned to follow late
another bunch of unsolved math problems was solved by ai. here's how google's agent solved 53+ open math problems. what it solved: • 9 erdos problems out