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A 232-upvote r/LocalLLaMA thread builds an open-weights argument on Ramp's mid-August corporate spending data: Fable 5, the most capable and expensive model in the lineup, accounts for 11% of those companies' Anthropic spend. (r/LocalLLaMA) The thread's read is that Qwen, GLM and DeepSeek don't need to beat the frontier, they need to be good enough for the other 89%. The top reply puts it bluntly: you don't need a PhD to generate an Excel file from a stack of bills.
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The aggregate parameter count Chinese labs shipped in 30 days now exceeds what the whole open-weight ecosystem produced in the first half of 2026. r/LocalLLaMA Nikkei Asia reported August 15 that Z.ai positions GLM-5.3 as a direct rival to Anthropic's Mythos on coding and secu...
Simon Willison pulled the numbers out of an FT report sourced to "people with knowledge of the matter": Anthropic's annualized revenue reached $65bn in July, up from $47bn in May. Six thousand customers spend $100,000 or more a year. The company told investors it expects a pro...
This is a supply-chain fact, and most people are still treating it as a geopolitics argument. Sequoia published "America's Open-Model Paradox" on July 24 with the number that reframes the whole conversation: Qwen's share of open-model fine-tunes went from 1% in January 2024 to...
paddo.dev makes the most contrarian read: the letter's substance isn't openness but paragraph nine, defending distillation as "a widely used technique for model improvement" and urging policymakers against "conflating legitimate model development techniques with misappropriati...
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5-Pro, a 1.02 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model (42B active) with 1M token context, fully MIT licensed. In benchmarks, it achieves 63.8% success on agentic tasks using 40-60% fewer tokens than Claude Opus 4.6 or GPT-5.4 for comparable results....
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna roughly 80%, from $1 to $0.20 per million input and $6 to $1.20 output. Anthropic priced Opus 5 at $5/$25 per million, half of Fable 5. The trigger is DeepSeek, Zhipu's GLM-5.2 and Moonshot's Kimi K3 landing 60-90% below US flagship pricing, with DoorDa...
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