Model & Research Desk
The research desk tracks the frontier labs and the open-weight ecosystem — architectures, training methods, benchmark claims and what the papers actually support.
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Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek and Gemma dominate the open-weight landscape, but their licenses differ sharply. Here is what each family is good for, what the license actually permits, and what hardware you need.
A working guide to ChatGPT — what the product actually is, the model architecture behind it, the difference between the chat app and the API, and the failure modes you need to plan around.
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