Topic
Frontier models
3 stories on this topic, newest first.
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.
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.
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.


