Tag: open weights
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AI Model Distillation, Explained: The Compression Trick Behind the $589 Billion Monday
A single Chinese app knocked $589 billion off Nvidia in one day. The trick behind the panic has a boring name and a fascinating story.
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A 3-Point Gap and a 42x Price Cut: The Open-Weight AI Landscape, July 2026
The best open-weight model now trails the closed frontier by three points of measured intelligence and costs a third of the price. For anyone routing thousands of tasks through an API, that’s a procurement decision, not a nerd fight.
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GLM-5.2 and the Benchmark Trap: How One Score Becomes Two Headlines
A Chinese open-weight model just topped the leaderboards and undercut GPT-5.5 on price by 7x. Then the benchmark tables started disagreeing with each other.