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Models
A 40-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model ships under Apache 2.0 with no revenue gate, benchmarked at more than 125 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. The weights reach the developer machine itself.
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The models that find, rank, and read an agent's evidence just shipped open and commercially available, with no revenue gate attached. NVIDIA's own tests say better retrieval cut agentic token cost about 14%.
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Every capability claim this week arrived vendor-reported. The one document that tells the truth about risk is a license that disclaims the model's output and assigns the bill to the deployer.
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Nemotron 3.5 Super VL shipped open weights, open datasets, and training recipes six days before the keynote that made them industrial policy. NVIDIA's own figures say nearly $10 billion committed to Europe, not the $2 billion that circulated before the speech.
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DeepSeek gave away its engine and Google standardized the serving layer in the same week. The new competitive moat is not the model; it is Anthropic's ~$90B bet on power, silicon, and the gigawatt-scale campus.
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DeepSeek gave away its engine but kept the KV cache, disaggregation, and load balancing. llm-d 1.0 ships all three free and vendor-neutral — and the clouds that funded it already sell the managed tier above.
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A frontier lab just gave away the engine that runs its own production services: Apache 2.0, Nvidia and Huawei silicon from one tree, and a scope that stops exactly where production serving starts.
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StepFun, Meta, Moonshot, and Mistral now gate commercial deployment at the same number on four different clocks. Below it the weights are free. Above it you are negotiating terms nobody publishes.
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The $220M startup charges customers a share of the compute savings its model delivers — a business model that makes inefficiency the enemy and Nvidia's hardware the raw material.
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At 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs, Inception Labs' Mercury 3 establishes a new performance baseline that renders the fast-cheap tier of frontier models obsolete.
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