Naderu Weekly
Weekly reports
What actually changed in foundation models, one week at a time — what shipped, what it costs, what it licences under, and what that means if you have to build on it. Every figure is linked to the page it came from and dated. Where we could only find a claim second-hand, we say so — and when we get something wrong, the correction opens the next report.
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Episode 6 · latest
Nobody changed a price this week
And the board still moved. A licence that isn't MIT, a rate that became promotional without moving, and a date that isn't on the model you think it's on.
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Episode 5
The price has a clock on it
GPT-5.6 Sol fell a third with no announcement. Four cheap rows carry expiry dates — and one correction is ours.
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Episode 4
The weights aren't the whole model
Qwen3.8-Max ships open weights that leave out what the API can do. Meta's Muse Glimmer doesn't cut anything.
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Episode 3
The clock is now part of the bill
DeepSeek's price changes on Sunday — and then again at one in the morning, every morning.
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Episode 2
The same weights, twice
One copy refuses. One copy doesn't. Only one of them is generally available.
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Episode 1
The open-weights inversion
The largest open model in history shipped this week. Meta went closed the same month.
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