Model launches, lab moves, and the compute bills behind them.
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OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026 and started a limited rollout. What it does, which plan gets it, what it costs, and which launch numbers somebody outside OpenAI has checked.
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Google put the TimesFM 3 weights on Hugging Face under a license that blocks commercial and production use. The code stays open, and TimesFM 2.5 is still the version you can ship.
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The weights are the finished model, not the recipe that made it. What open weight AI models give you, which licenses come with strings attached, and what running one really costs.
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No lab has shown an AI that designs its own successor. The narrow version of the loop already runs, and the published numbers behind it are worth reading before the next headline.
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A mixture of experts model stores hundreds of billions of parameters and runs a few billion per token. That split sets your download, your RAM and your speed, with numbers from 5 real models.
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NotebookLM vs ChatGPT, checked on grounding, capacity, web access, citations and price. Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook on 16 July 2026, and every number here is verified.
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Both plans sit at $20 a month and both now ship a coding agent. 5 checks against what Anthropic and OpenAI publish themselves, and a verdict.
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