OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna on 22 September at $2/$10 and $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens. The same 1M context and 128K output as Astra, at a fraction of the price.
Travis Johnson
September 23, 2026 · 3 min
Six models landed in the week of 11 August, none of them flagships. Where the real competition moved, and why DeepSeek costs a quarter of its rivals with twice the context.
Travis Johnson
August 20, 2026 · 4 min
OpenAI shipped all three tiers with pro variants on 9 July. A five-times price spread from Luna to Sol, identical context and output limits, and how to choose between them.
Travis Johnson
July 13, 2026 · 3 min
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
April 27, 2026 · 6 min
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
April 24, 2026 · 6 min
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
April 10, 2026 · 6 min
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
January 7, 2026 · 11 min
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
December 26, 2025 · 14 min
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
December 18, 2025 · 13 min
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
December 10, 2025 · 12 min
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
December 2, 2025 · 10 min
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