Open source funding: five models, honestly compared
Donations, foundations, dual licensing, open core, and hosted service. Each works for a specific shape of project.
#industry
24 pieces tagged industry,
from January 27, 2025 to May 20, 2026.
Every company is briefly a model company
The fine-tuning wave, the RAG wave, and the agent wave all followed the same arc. Here's where the value actually settled.
Claude Opus 4.5 and the compaction problem
A frontier release with a large price cut, plus effort controls and context compaction as a first-class feature.
Nvidia's quarter and the question nobody can answer
Another enormous beat, another set of concerns about circular financing. Both facts are real.
GPT-5.1 and the return of the model picker
Instant and Thinking as named modes, adaptive reasoning, and personality controls. The router lesson got learned.
Haiku 4.5 and the collapsing cost of good-enough
A small model at frontier-adjacent coding performance, priced for volume. The economics of agent fleets just changed.
Windows 10 reaches end of support
A very large number of machines stop getting security updates. The e-waste and the enterprise scramble are both real.
Sora 2 and the feed nobody asked for
A better video model wrapped in a social app, with a cameo feature that makes consent the whole product question.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the agent that runs for thirty hours
A model tuned for long-horizon autonomous work, plus checkpoints and context editing in the SDK.
OpenAI and Nvidia sign a circular deal
Up to $100 billion of investment tied to gigawatts of deployment. The financing structures are getting interesting.
Perplexity bids $34.5 billion for Chrome
A company worth less than its offer bids for a browser that isn't for sale. The interesting part is why anyone would.
GPT-5 lands with a router and a backlash
One model that decides how hard to think, an abrupt deprecation of everything else, and a lesson about attachment.
everything else tagged #industry 12
- Rate limits are a product decision, not an infrastructure oneessay
- ToolShell: SharePoint gets exploited at scalenews
- Windsurf gets pulled apart in a weeknews
- Grok 4 and the benchmark that ate the discoursenews
- Cursor at $9 billion and the coding-tool land grabnews
- Meta buys half of Scale AI and most of its leadershipnews
- Claude 4 and the agent that runs for hoursnews
- Chrome keeps third-party cookies after allnews
- Llama 4 arrives, and the leaderboard problem gets a namenews
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet ships, and so does a terminalnews
- Grok 3 and the case for buying your way to the frontiernews
- The day the market priced in efficiencynews