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Official numbers cross-checked against independent measurements
Official numbers cross-checked against independent measurements
5 articles
Prompt Caching (Part 2): Five Vendors, Three Clouds, One Bill
AWS documents a 4,096-token minimum for Sonnet 4.5 on Bedrock; I measured 1,024. Multipliers, TTL tiers and cross-region behaviour for five vendors — measured kept apart from documented.
DeepSeek V4 Pro Goes GA: Third-Party Benchmarks Don't Match the Leaked Scorecard
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 launches as a GA release. Artificial Analysis gives it 53 points, ranking 23rd. The leaked agent benchmark table claims 87.9 on Terminal Bench — beating Opus 4.8 — but independent testing shows 79%, a 9-point gap that flips the result. Here's the full cross-check.
Kimi K3 Is Here: 2.8 Trillion Parameters, Fully Open Source — This Time It's Different
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3: 2.8 trillion parameters, the world's first open-source 3T-class model, 1M-token context, and native multimodality. A deep dive into the KDA and AttnRes architecture innovations, its #4 global ranking on Artificial Analysis, pricing that matches Claude Sonnet 5, and the four long-term ways an open frontier model reshapes the industry.
Claude Code vs OpenClaw: 510K vs 530K Lines Source Code Showdown
After Claude Code's source leak exposed 512K lines of TypeScript, we finally get a true apples-to-apples comparison with OpenClaw — architecture, agent definitions, security, and design philosophy.
OpenClaw vs Claude Code: Architecture and Strategy Compared
Two AI agent products, two radically different philosophies. A deep comparison of architecture, adoption, and what's next.