Section

Models

Frontier and open-weight model releases, benchmarks, pricing and what each one changes for the people who build on them.

2 stories

  1. Explainer

    How to read a model card without getting fooled

    Model cards are part specification, part marketing. Here is a field-by-field guide to the numbers that matter, the ones that are routinely gamed, and the questions a card should answer before you ship on it.

    4 min read

  2. Analysis

    Open-weight models are closing the gap. The economics say it will not fully close

    The lag between the best closed model and the best open-weight model has shrunk to months on most benchmarks. Whether it reaches zero depends on who pays for frontier training runs and why.

    3 min read