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Model Strategy
Choosing which models to bet on, and what it costs to switch.
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The model you build on is rented. Price the risk.
Anthropic's two newest models went dark worldwide for 19 days on an export-control order — zero notice, and the provider didn't choose the timing either. Most teams price that risk at zero. Here is what it actually costs, and the seam that makes a swap a config change.
July 15, 2026 · 7 min read
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If you don't host it, you rent it: reading Odyssey's $1.45B against Fable's blackout
Odyssey's $1.45B raise and Fable 5's overnight shutdown are the same story. How to architect for model-provider dependency: gateways, version pinning, and naming your no-fallback bets.
July 8, 2026 · 7 min read
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GLM 5.2 against the shipping market: where the first frontier-adjacent open model wins, and where it doesn't
GLM 5.2 is the first open-weight model in the frontier coding conversation. Real benchmarks, cost-per-task math, and where it wins against Claude, GPT-5.5, and DeepSeek.
July 3, 2026 · 18 min read