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Models & Power · 8 minute read
265 commits. 127 pull requests. 151 issues. Sixteen days. No human at the keyboard. There is a public repository that kept working after everyone stopped watching it. By the time the count settled, that was the ledger it left behind. The model opened tickets, wrote the…
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$3 per million input tokens, $15 per million output. That’s Kimi K3. Read that again, because it’s the whole story. Moonshot AI…
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→GPT-5.6 Sol Is the Best Agent OpenAI Has Shipped. It Also Burns Your Entire Token Allowance Through Subagents You Never Chose. $5…
→For most of its life, Grok had a problem benchmarks could not fix: people did not quite know whether to take it…
→72 hours. That’s how long Claude Fable 5 lived before the Trump administration killed it. It launched June 9, 2026 as the…
→Claude Fable 5 vanished on a Wednesday. Not deprecated. Not sunset. Pulled — by US government order. Three thousand miles away, OpenAI…
→$4.40 per million output tokens. That’s what GLM-5.2 costs. Claude Opus 4.8 charges $25. GPT-5.5 charges $30. Same ballpark capability. Six times…
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