In August 2026, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told the company’s Seed AI research team something almost nobody in the industry
Continue readingThe Distillation Wars: Which Chinese AI Labs Actually Train Their Own Models
Every modern large language model you use is almost certainly a Mixture-of-Experts model. Mixtral, DeepSeek-V3, GPT-OSS, the latest Kimi and
Continue readingInside Mixture-of-Experts: Routing, Load Balancing, and Why 671B Parameters Cost 37B
Most teams treat “thinking mode” as a switch. Turn it on and the model reasons through the problem step by
Continue readingThinking Inertia: Why LLMs Don’t Stop Reasoning When You Tell Them To
Every LLM application has two knobs that get blamed for everything: temperature and top-p. When outputs are boring, someone raises
Continue readingTemperature, Top-p, Top-k, and Min-p: How the LLM Sampler Actually Works
What this is: a chronology of the major LLM releases of 2026, paired with the loudest things the internet said
Continue readingEvery 2026 LLM Release, Paired With the Hype That Announced It — Scored for Accuracy
DeepSeeded? No — DeepSeek. In September 2026 the Chinese AI lab released a paper titled “DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of
September 2026 has been one of the densest months for AI releases in recent memory. Within the first 72 hours,
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Alibaba’s Qwen team just shipped Qwen3.8-Max, and it arrives at a strange moment in the AI race. We’re past the
The AI landscape moves fast. In the span of a few weeks, we’ve seen several notable model releases that push