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Kolibri Is Large Enough
American chips, Chinese teachers, about $3 million for the training run. What Germany's new open model adds is eligibility.
Oct 6
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Julien Simon
Eight Changes to Transformer Attention, and What Each Costs
The newest open models from Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Z.AI no longer read every earlier token. Eight designs, what each costs, and what to test.
Oct 4
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Julien Simon
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September 2026
An Act of God, With Letterhead
Oracle reportedly called its power problem an act of God. Its annual report had already listed it.
Sep 28
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Julien Simon
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Vent Mauvais
Verlaine’s ill wind carries the leaf where it will. States bought Mistral without a tender; where free choice can be measured, it goes elsewhere.
Sep 24
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Julien Simon
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At Least 45 Days
Almost every model on Bedrock gets six months' notice before it can be pulled. The one Washington just accused gets 45 days, and no stated reason.
Sep 20
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Julien Simon
Selective Availability
Three agencies advised American AI providers to degrade answers for accounts they suspect of malicious distillation, subtly enough to “avoid triggering…
Sep 11
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Julien Simon
The Cache Is the Price
Routing a job to a cheaper model looks like free money. Whether it is depends on how the frontier bills the handover.
Sep 8
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Julien Simon
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August 2026
Event Horizon
Nobody could pay to keep Hugging Face neutral. Nvidia is paying to own it.
Aug 31
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Julien Simon
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The Host Pays the Empire
AI data centers are the foreign bases of the US–China tech rivalry, except that the host now pays the rent.
Aug 25
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Julien Simon
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The Watcher Is the Product
DeepSeek gave the agent harness away. OpenAI is taxing itself to watch its own. SpaceX paid $60 billion for one. All three just told you where the value…
Aug 20
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Julien Simon
The Model Is the Machine
AMD just bought a chip company whose product runs exactly one model. That is the point.
Aug 9
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Julien Simon
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From Google Brain to Google Drain
What six weeks of exits say about the model Google hasn’t shipped.
Aug 5
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Julien Simon
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