A standing page on where Super Intelligence models actually stand, built from the scoreboards the Super Intelligence companies don't run. It covers who leads on human votes versus test batteries, how fast the models are improving, what a point of intelligence costs, how far open models trail, and wh
Google DeepMind says Gemini 4 Argon beats Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra on 13 of 19 benchmarks. I read the table, the methodology PDF and the independent scoreboards. The wins are real and mostly don't depend on Google grading its own homework, but the human-vote leaderboard and
On September 22, 2026, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 — its first new model since CEO Dario Amodei published an essay ten days earlier arguing the whole industry should deliberately slow down. It's 40 percent cheaper than Opus 5, runs about 30 percent faster, performs close to the pricier Fable 5
Anthropic's own newsletter told me to run a new command, /skill-doctor, to see what my accumulated Claude Code skills were costing me. It failed three times, and once, when it printed the true reason why, the assistant's own reply talked past it. The fourth try stopped refusing the connection and ga
For three months I have worked every day with an AI coding assistant that wakes up each session knowing nothing about the last one. What it knows, it reads from a file. That file grew to 685 kilobytes, went stale in ways that reached the real-money side of the project, and turned into the best lesso
Some friends and I have been arguing about whether it will ever seem normal to spend six million tokens in eleven minutes to make a blog post — and whether a world where the well-off can run AI flat out leaves everyone else with the crumbs. So I priced the tokens, traced where the price is going, an