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AI Models

Frontier and open-weight models, reasoning systems, small models and the economics of intelligence.

AI Models

Why now?

  • Reasoning models are changing what a single model can do without tools
  • Small, domain-specific models are making on-device and private deployment viable
  • Open-weight releases are turning models into strategic infrastructure
  • Inference cost, not training cost, is becoming the dominant economic question
Why it matters
Model capability and cost curves set the boundary conditions for everything built on top of them.

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OpenAI Halves API Prices With Its New Computer-Use Model

GPT-6.1 Terra lists at $1 per million input tokens, half the rate of the model it replaces and of the stronger GPT-6.1 Sol. Artificial Analysis scored it 48 on its Intelligence Index, four points behind Sol.

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Science

OpenAI Says Its Models Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

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Business

Anthropic's S-1 Shows $16.3bn of Revenue and a $693m Loss

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AI

DeepSeek and MiniMax Clear China's New AI Export Register

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AI

DHS Order Pulling DeepSeek From Agency Systems Dates to July

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AI

OpenAI and Anthropic Fund the Checking of AI Maths

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AI

Google's Argon Tops One Benchmark League and Trails Another

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AI

Nvidia Weighs Buying Reflection Days After Beam Shipped

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AI

OpenAI Published 722 Proofs and Withheld the Model's Name

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Companies

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Anthropic

AI research & products · San Francisco, California, US

AI safety-focused frontier lab behind the Claude model family, with strong positioning in coding agents and enterprise deployment.

OpenAI

AI research & products · San Francisco, California, US

Frontier model developer behind ChatGPT, with a growing focus on agents, enterprise deployment and consumer scale.

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