12 animated canvas scenes, 1.19m tokens, $0.09 all in – ling-3.0-tiny wrote the briefs, ling-3.0-flash drew them
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AI Models & LLM News: Releases, Benchmarks, Comparisons
New models, benchmarks and our tests
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august 2026: 8 frontier models dropping this month – grok, gemini, gpt astra, and more
Nick Trenkler
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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
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thinking machines' inkling-small fixed more bugs than inkling – at 3.5x fewer parameters and 11x cheaper
Addy Crezee
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qwen 3.8 max outperforms every us frontier model on agentic tasks by 4x+ on price/quality
Nick Trenkler
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this month openrouter is chinese. two of the top 10 most-used models cost $0
Addy Crezee
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openai cut gpt-5.6 luna api pricing by 80%. here's where that leaves the 50-51 band on artificial analysis
Nick Trenkler
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claude opus 5 vs opus 4.8 vs opus 4.7 vs opus 4.6 - on italian architecture
Nick Trenkler
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openrouter is basically chinese now. 9 of the top 10 models by token volume
Addy Crezee
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claude opus 5 writes the best 3d guns – at half the price of fable 5
Nick Trenkler
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laguna s 2.1 vs hy3 vs inkling vs deepseek v4 pro max
Nick Trenkler
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gemini 3.6 flash vs qwen3-max vs gpt 5.6 sol vs kimi k3
Nick Trenkler
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