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Frontier models

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  1. NewsAnalysis

    Inference prices keep falling. Here is who actually benefits

    Per-token prices for frontier-class models have dropped by roughly an order of magnitude every 18 months. The savings are real, but they land unevenly across the stack.

    4 min read

  2. ModelsExplainer

    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

  3. ModelsAnalysis

    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