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llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio cap generation at whatever context remains, which previously cut off long local sessions mid-answer and failed the run. Now it compacts and retries the turn once (GitHub). The catalog grows to 6,386 models across 209 providers, and defaults change for 19 providers, with eleven of them including GitHub Copilot and Vertex now defaulting to Claude Opus 5.5. Users who never picked a model get a different one silently. Cline Desktop 0.0.35 also adds Linux .deb and .rpm packages, with plugin slash commands like /goal now running the plugin handler instead of being sent to the model as text.
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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1. Claude Code v2.1.257 made it the default Fable model at 17:53 UTC that day, with a 1M-token context window, $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output, and $0.25 per million on cache reads (claude-code CHANGELOG). B...
Three moves, two days, no coordination between them. August 10–11: GitHub shipped Ollama as a BYOK provider inside Copilot for JetBrains (GitHub Changelog). Unsloth released Unsloth Desktop with a command literally named unsloth start claude, which points Claude Code and Codex...
Eight percent of a monthly credit allowance gone in two hours. That's a real Copilot Pro+ user after metered token billing took effect June 1. Another spent over $6 on a single change request. A Claude 4.8 session reportedly ate 1,180 credits, roughly 16% of a Pro+ allowance,...
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on April 22. Dense architecture. Open weights. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, within 3.7 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On SkillsBench, it scores 48.2% versus its own 397B MoE predecessor's 30.0%. That's a 77% improvement with 14.8x fewer parameters. Let...
Ollama cut v0.34.0-rc1 on September 5 at 23:49 UTC, and the headline item changes the shape of the local-versus-hosted decision rather than the performance of either side: Ollama-hosted open models can be selected directly inside ChatGPT Desktop, with setup driven from the Oll...
Released June 17, the Copilot app is a desktop home for agent-driven development built natively on GitHub, moving Copilot beyond the IDE. It pairs with the now-GA Copilot SDK and sandboxes for headless and autonomous workflows. (GitHub) This positions Copilot as a CLI/app-firs...
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