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See the exact pieces an AI sees when it reads your words. This guide shows how tokenization works, real token splits, why the strawberry mistake happens, how tokens are priced, and how to count your own tokens in one minute.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 routing card: when the faster mid-tier wins on scoped coding and docs, when Opus still wins open-ended judgment, plus between_tools migration and effort defaults. List $2/$10 as of 2026-09-29 (pricing may change).
OpenRouter listed free Space Bunny Alpha on Sep 23, 2026; MiniMax announced M3.1-Flash-Preview on MiniMax Code and Token Plan on Sep 27. Keep MiniMax = Space Bunny unconfirmed. Map confirmed listing fields, quote retention carefully, run a short non-sensitive eval while Free lasts (pricing may change), and wait for a named card before a production default.
Stop guessing at API settings. This guide shows what each sampling knob really does - temperature, top-p, top-k, penalties, max tokens - and gives you the exact ranges that work for coding, chat, and creative writing.
Compare Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite for voice agents and creators: routing rules, 130 vs 101 languages, speech_metadata migration, SynthID, and published pricing.
StepFun's Step 5 Preview is a 600B-total/27B-active sparse MoE coding model with 1M-token context and a live API at $1.00/$2.70 per M tokens plus a 95% cache discount. Independently measured at AA index 44; open weights promised October 15, no license named yet. Here is what is verified, what is vendor-reported, and what it really costs per coding-agent task.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL is a 1.02T-parameter MoE with 1M-token context and omni I/O, released under MIT with its $3.47M RL post-training counted live on a public dashboard. AA Intelligence Index: 46, the top open-weights spot.
Qwen-Image-2.1 puts open-weight generation, instruction-based editing, and native transparent output in one downloadable checkpoint - here is what it does, what the 33 GB download really includes, and the license catch.
A plain-English guide to AI hallucinations: why LLMs guess instead of lookup, real examples including the Mata v. Avianca fake cases, where hallucinations strike hardest, and the fixes that actually work.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is the first model rated Critical for cybersecurity under the Preparedness Framework - it found unknown zero-days and built working exploit chains without human help. See what ships, what is withheld, and what it costs.
Salesforce Koa pairs an open-weight NVIDIA Nemotron base with proprietary post-training inside Salesforce's trust boundary. See what the paper actually reports, when you can use Koa, and what it signals for enterprise AI.
TypeSafe just launched Jev, the first System One Model: an API that returns typed values, calibrated probabilities, and confidence instead of text. A clear look at what it returns, what it costs, and what is still unproven.
