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Model id zai/glm-5.2 in the AI SDK, per the changelog. Interesting as a counter-datapoint to the narrative that ultra-cheap Chinese models are over: aggressive gateway-level discounting is keeping effective prices low even as list prices climb. Time-boxed, so the window is six days.
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Open issues on the AI SDK went from 1,022 to 844 in four weeks. That's the number I'd lead with if I were writing this post, and Vercel did. Vercel published the internals of the system it built to maintain the AI SDK, a repo with over 20 million npm downloads a week, 26,000+...
SiliconData figures via the Financial Times show enterprise spend moving toward open models over the past month, though absolute proprietary spend stays far higher. The wrinkle: effective prices for proprietary models fell sharply as OpenAI cut rates, while effective prices fo...
K3 and K3 Fast are now available from Baseten and Fireworks among others, which matters for teams wanting the leading open-weights model without routing prompts to China-based inference. ZDR toggles globally in the dashboard or per-request via zeroDataRetention. Vercel publish...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
Martin Alderson's essay "The upcoming AI margin collapse, part 1: GLM 5.2" hit 675 points and 462 comments on Hacker News, and it's the rare HN chart-topper that's actually about spreadsheet math instead of vibes. The argument is simple. Z.ai's GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-adjace...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
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