Models
Frontier and open models: what shipped, what it can do, and how the claims hold up.
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Pretraining
The first and largest training phase, where a model learns from raw text by predicting what comes next.
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Parameter
A single learned number inside a model. Collectively, what the model knows.
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Inference
Running a trained model to produce output, as opposed to training it.
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Large language model
A model trained to predict the next piece of text, at a scale where doing so requires learning much of what language…
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DeepSeek ships its V4-Pro agentic flagship
The lab that triggered the price war releases a premium-priced model.
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Anthropic previews models with cyber capability claims
Vulnerability discovery across major operating systems and browsers is demonstrated.
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Rival agentic coding models ship the same day
Anthropic and OpenAI release competing coding flagships within hours.
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Google launches Gemini 3
A clear benchmark lead ships same-day into Search.
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GPT-5 launches with automatic model routing
A router picks reasoning effort on the user’s behalf.
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xAI releases Grok 4
A frontier claim arrives with a $300-a-month multi-agent tier.