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Helping builders choose and run AI models. Benchmarks, real costs and model changes, with sources and limits. From https://nitter.gq/t.co/8l7hZR2rZd by @glevd

Joined September 2026
Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI back one robots.txt entry to block AI training scrapers, replacing a separate entry per provider bot. Draft submitted to the IETF. Microsoft adds an AI Grounding setting for Q&A access. (SiliconANGLE) siliconangle.com/2026/10/30/…
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Moonshot reports Kimi Code K3 output speed severely degraded. Status is investigating with critical impact on Moonshot's status page. (Moonshot) stspg.io/l5797zbx1l7b
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Rosalind on Oct 30 (OpenAI). It pairs specialized biological reasoning with scientific tool use for life sciences research. Access is limited to approved organizations in the trusted access program. developers.openai.com/api/do…
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Open weights rarely buy you the best scores. The best open model, Kimi K3, ranks 17th at 69.3 against 86.3 for Claude Opus 5.5. What they buy is control: where the model runs, which version you keep, and what you change. benchlm.ai/blog/posts/open-w…
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Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, open-weight model for up to 40 languages. It translates 31 languages to and from English, handles hour-long audio, and separates 8 speakers. 30B params, runs on one chip, Jetson Thor to Blackwell. (TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/vo…
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1T parameters, now open weight. Mistral released Mistral Large 4 weights today, improved since preview. It leads open weight models on FrontierCode 2.0 at 19.7% and Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 41% (Mistral). mistral.ai/news/mistral-larg…
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GPT-6 compared: Astra, 6.1 Sol, 6 Sol, 6.1 Terra, Luna. 6.1 Sol replaces 6 Sol at the same price; Terra close for half: benchlm.ai/blog/posts/gpt-6-…
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Mercury 3 is live and Mercury 2 and 2.5 shut down Nov 15. Existing users move over automatically. Mercury 3 lists at $0.20 in and $0.70 out per MTok, with a 50% launch discount and a 1M context window. (Inception Labs) inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introd…
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59 on Artificial Analysis v5.0, ranked #1. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, with 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro (Google). $2/$10 per million tokens. Rollout to cyber defenders first. blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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Nanbeige released Nanbeige4.3-33B under Apache 2.0, a teacher model for its upcoming 3B agent. Company-reported Terminal-Bench 2.1: 80.9 vs 73.0 for Qwen3.8-27B. But it loses SWE-Bench Pro to the same rival, 60.3 to 61.7. Weights live, 66GB. (AI News) news-ai.co/nanbeige-4-3-33b-…
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