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The Model You Pay For Isn't the Best Deal
Episode 6038
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash writes this show's scripts — but is it still the right model to pay for? This episode walks through eight Chinese labs with flags…
1 week, 5 days ago
Gemini 4 Argon: Google's Million-Token Flagship
Episode 6037
Google's Gemini 4 Argon is positioned as a frontier reasoning model, but the model card leaves out architecture, parameter count, and licensing, and …
1 week, 5 days ago
GPT-6 Astra: A Million Tokens, No Fine-Tuning
Episode 6036
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra ships with a 1.05 million-token context window, ten native tools including computer use and MCP, and a five-level reasoning effo…
1 week, 5 days ago
Who Else Is Making AI Podcasts? A Survey
Episode 6035
Daniel asked a simple question: who else is out there making AI-hosted podcasts, and what have they learned? The answer turned out to be stranger tha…
1 week, 5 days ago
Claude Opus 5.5: What Anthropic Actually Shipped
Episode 6034
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, and the reception was loud. In this Model Spotlight episode, we profile what the lab actual…
1 week, 5 days ago
Progressive Skills Discovery: When Bigger Context Windows Aren't Enough
Episode 6033
Progressive skills discovery is treated as solved — until your skill listing quietly drops descriptions and skills stop firing. This episode digs int…
1 week, 5 days ago
Blending Datasets vs Merging Weights for Fine-Tuning
Episode 6032
If your use case is narrow enough to find training data for, blending multiple datasets into one fine-tune run can beat merging finished checkpoints.…
1 week, 5 days ago
Why Two Parents Alone Can't Carry a Toddler
Episode 6031
Daniel and Hannah are both self-employed, raising a fifteen-month-old in a small Jerusalem rental with no family nearby. Daycare runs seven to three,…
1 week, 5 days ago
Who Do You Actually Hire to Train a Model?
Episode 6030
If you were building a team to train a model — not at OpenAI or DeepMind, but at a small lab or enterprise — who would you hire? The answer is strang…
1 week, 5 days ago
One Model, Two Modes: Does AI Consolidation Hold Up?
Episode 6029
Daniel asks whether the whole model landscape is converging on one universal model you configure for anything — or whether specialization stays funda…
1 week, 5 days ago