Artificial intelligence
Reporting and analysis on artificial intelligence
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Five and a half hours of barely audible speech. Why Whisper large-v2 beat newer models
Six recordings, dozens of trials, and a sentence that appeared after 86 seconds of silence. We sought a modern open model for local transcription, but an older Whisper delivered the best result.
GLM-5.3 moved closer to the frontier. It still does not lead in coding
Z.ai’s release table shows a large gain over GLM-5.2, but it does not prove outright leadership. We examine what was measured, where vendor evidence ends, and how to test the model on a real repository.
The model that filled the queue: why Kimi K3 matters beyond its records
Demand forced Moonshot AI to pause new subscriptions. The more consequential event came later: the company released the weights of a model that had moved close to the strongest closed systems.