The Great Re-Closing: How 2026 Killed Open-Source Frontier AI
Within ten weeks, the three forces that built the open-weight movement each walked away from it. Meta swapped Llama for a proprietary…
Within ten weeks, the three forces that built the open-weight movement each walked away from it. Meta swapped Llama for a proprietary model, a U.S. export order proved…
Within ten weeks, the three forces that built the open-weight movement each walked away from it. Meta swapped Llama for a proprietary…
Chips are selling faster than anyone forecast and capital is practically falling from the sky. Yet the companies racing to build artificial…
*OpenAI's fastest-moving frontier model is no longer a paid privilege. With GPT-5.5 Instant set as the default for the entire ChatGPT base,…
The dek: Putting a reasoning model at the center of the world's front door to the web is not just a feature…
*A frontier model cleared for release was suspended by an export-control order in under a week — the clearest sign yet that…
Anthropic's new flagship leads the public leaderboards — but for developers, the headline is a tuning knob that lets you dial the…
The dek: A public listing priced near $1 trillion would not just crown Anthropic. It would force the market to put a…
The dek: Cupertino is now leaning on a 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model to power the new Siri it showed at WWDC 2026. The…
Within ten weeks, the three forces that built the open-weight movement each walked away from it. Meta swapped Llama for a proprietary…