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The State of AI Image Generation in 2026: GPT Image 2, Nano Banana, and Grok Imagine

GPT Image 2 renders text at 99% accuracy. Google shipped three tiers of Nano Banana. Grok Imagine generates video with audio. Here's how they compare and when to use each.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

April 27, 2026 · 6 min

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DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash: Open-Weight Models That Match the Frontier

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 93.5% on LiveCodeBench, beats Claude Opus 4.6 on coding, and costs a seventh of the output price. V4 Flash does it for $0.14 per million tokens. Both are open-weight with 1M context.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

April 24, 2026 · 6 min

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Claude Mythos Preview: What It Is, What It Can Do, and Why It's Restricted

Anthropic's most capable model ever benchmarks at 93.9% on SWE-bench and 97.6% on USAMO — and discovered thousands of zero-days including a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug. Here's why it's not public.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

April 10, 2026 · 6 min

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Will AI Models Keep Getting Better? The Scaling Debate Explained

Scaling laws drove AI progress for years, but the debate has shifted toward inference-time compute and architectural innovations. We explain the current state of the scaling debate and what it means for users.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

January 7, 2026 · 11 min

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AI Model Releases in 2025: Every Major Launch, Ranked

A complete retrospective of every significant AI model release in 2025 — benchmarks at launch, what changed from predecessors, and which releases actually moved the capability frontier.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

December 26, 2025 · 14 min

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The LLM Provider Landscape in 2025: Who's Winning and Why

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, Mistral, and Cohere are all competing for AI dominance. We map the competitive landscape, analyze strategic positioning, and assess who's ahead in each dimension.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

December 18, 2025 · 13 min

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Open Source vs Closed AI Models: The 2025 State of Play

The capability gap between open-weight and closed models has narrowed dramatically. We analyze where the gap remains, where open models have caught up, and what the trajectory means for developers and enterprises.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

December 10, 2025 · 12 min

AI News

The True Cost of AI in 2025: What You're Really Paying For

The sticker price of AI subscriptions hides real costs: time switching between tools, context loss, inconsistent outputs, and the cognitive overhead of managing multiple accounts. The full accounting changes the math.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

December 2, 2025 · 10 min

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