The most powerful open-source model of the year just dropped, and you still can't run it at home
… The API pricing makes Kimi even harder to ignore. …
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 3x the model it replaced, and the era of cheap AI is ending
… Sign in to your XDA account For most of the past couple years, AI pricing has been in flux, seemingly getting cheaper or only slightly increasing. …
I tested a local LLM against a frontier cloud model, and the gap was smaller than I expected
… For example, Qwen's GPU pricing was directionally right but not perfectly current, and it overclaimed on which model sizes fit a given VRAM budget at specific quants. Those are the cracks a local model with bolt-on web search still shows, but it manages to stay incredibly competitive. …
I cancelled Claude after 6 months of daily use — here's what went wrong
…Sign in to your XDA account Competition is more important than ever because if companies like Anthropic get free rein, they won’t hesitate to exploit consumers. We are already seeing that…
Claude Fable 5 caught bugs GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 missed, then the US government forced it offline
… Not because of a normal product rollback, not because capacity ran out, and not because the company changed its mind about pricing. …
If Claude Code is going away for Pro users, I can't recommend Claude anymore
… On the 21st of April, the company quietly updated its pricing page to show Claude Code as no longer included in the Pro plan . …
I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
… There's one group of people this is especially useful to, and it's the people pricing up an Nvidia DGX Spark, a high-VRAM workstation, or a Mac Studio for local AI work. …
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini get all the hype, but the most interesting AI models are coming from elsewhere
… It depends, but I'm not going to pretend they're universally better or even competitive across the board models. …