Business
AI model price war: US labs cut mid-tier as China closes gap
AI model price war cut US token prices 25% since mid-July. OpenAI slashed Luna 80%, Anthropic halved Opus 5 vs Fable 5, as Chinese rivals close the gap.
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4 stories tagged open-weight-models.
AI
Open-weight AI models: Hinton says the battle is lost
At Ai4, Hinton conceded the battle over open-weight AI models is lost, while Ng and Li argued for openness with nuance.
Data
Open-weight models closed the gap to 1.7 points
Open-weight models went from a budget compromise to a default choice. On some benchmarks the gap to the best closed models shrank from 8 points to 1.7 in a year.
AI
Last year's frontier model now runs on a laptop
Frontier AI capability reaches consumer hardware in about eight months. The shrinking gap turns today's hosted-only features into tomorrow's on-device default.