Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash matches Claude Haiku 4.5 on SWE-Bench Verified using a third of the tokens. The right metric for AI in production is intelligence per dollar, value per token spent.
OpenRouter token data shows open-weight models overtaking closed models as provider leadership fragments across Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, OpenAI, & a long tail.
Software is no longer about UX & data. It is about the harness, the layer that turns an LLM into a reliable agent. Seven components define the new stack.
If data gravity defined the last decade, agent gravity will define this one. As AI agents become the primary interface to enterprise data, the platforms that run them will capture an outsized share of value -- & they're already locking the doors.
Salesforce and others are going headless. AI is making the user interface plastic -- malleable to whatever the user needs, when they need it. The head isn't disappearing, it's becoming formless.
SpaceX finally files to go public on Nasdaq as SPCX. Starlink generates $11.4B at 39% operating margins. The xAI merger adds a third leg to the business. Here's what the numbers tell us.
Three years of LLM pricing data: flagship prices dropped, then flipped upward, while budget models bounced back. Tokenizer efficiency softened the headline, but real costs are rising.