OpenAI ships GPT-5.5: what actually changes for builders
The model is faster, cheaper per token, and finally usable for long-running agent loops. Here's what the launch post buries — and what it means for anyone shipping production AI.
Llama 4 405B is out: open weights at frontier-adjacent quality
Meta released Llama 4 with weights you can actually run. The 405B variant is GPT-5-class on most evals, the 70B is shockingly good, and the licensing terms have one important catch.
Google ships Gemini 3 with native tool use — quietly
Gemini 3 lands without the usual launch theatrics. The interesting story isn't the eval scores — it's that tool calling is now a first-class part of the model, not a wrapper bolted on top.
- OpenAI ships GPT-5.5: what actually changes for builders
The model is faster, cheaper per token, and finally usable for long-running agent loops. Here's what the launch post buries — and what it means for anyone shipping production AI.
- Llama 4 405B is out: open weights at frontier-adjacent quality
Meta released Llama 4 with weights you can actually run. The 405B variant is GPT-5-class on most evals, the 70B is shockingly good, and the licensing terms have one important catch.
- Google ships Gemini 3 with native tool use — quietly
Gemini 3 lands without the usual launch theatrics. The interesting story isn't the eval scores — it's that tool calling is now a first-class part of the model, not a wrapper bolted on top.
