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Week 34 · 2026 · August 20, 2026
LatestYour model isn't the bottleneck
Models got cheaper again this week — Grok 4.6 at $2 per million, DeepSeek at half price outside peak hours, Qwen 27B with fully open weights. Then the research landed an awkward finding: one paper lifted accuracy from 82.7% to 88.1% without touching the model, for $15 instead of $574.68. The bottleneck moved. It's everything around the model now.
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Your agent says it's done. Check.
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The cost excuse just ran out
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