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AI: Bubble or Revolution? A Deep Dive …

Jul 19, 2026·3 min

AI: Bubble or Revolution? A Deep Dive into Speculative Growth

Is the AI boom a speculative bubble or a real revolution? This analysis examines speculative growth economics, compares optimist and pessimist views, and draws lessons from railway and dot-com history.

Aug 1, 2026·2 min

OpenAI Crosses 1 Billion Users: How ChatGPT Is Reshaping the AI Industry Landscape

OpenAI surpasses 1 billion active users as ChatGPT becomes a top consumer AI product in under 3 years. Analysis of growth drivers, monetization challenges, and industry impact.

Aug 1, 2026·2 min

OpenAI Surpasses 1 Billion Users: How ChatGPT Is Reshaping the AI Industry Landscape

OpenAI surpasses 1 billion active users as ChatGPT becomes a top consumer AI product in under 3 years. Analysis of its growth drivers, monetization challenges, and industry impact.

Jul 31, 2026·3 min

AI-Themed Fund Plunges 67% in One Month: Bubble Burst or Short-Term Volatility?

An AI fund called Situational Awareness crashed 67% in July. We analyze the leverage, concentration, and valuation factors behind the plunge and what it means for AI investing.

Jul 29, 2026·3 min

Self-Hosting Kimi K3: Is Spending 20% More on Hardware Worth a 20% Improvement in Task Performance?

Analysis of whether spending 20% more on hardware for self-hosting Kimi K3 to gain 20% task performance improvement is worthwhile, covering inference precision, VRAM optimization, and tiered deployment.

Jul 28, 2026·4 min

Cursor Start India Plan at ₹649/Month: Decoding the Regional Pricing Strategy for AI Coding Tools

Cursor launches its Start plan for India at ₹649/month (~$7.70), featuring Grok 4.5 and Composer Agent. A deep dive into the PPP pricing strategy and its market implications.

Jul 25, 2026·5 min

Why Are China's Open-Source AI Models Getting Stronger? A Deep Dive into Three Comeback Paths

Facing US chip bans and closed-source monopolies, how do China's open-source AI models keep striking back? A deep dive into three core paths: open-source pricing-power games, optical interconnect positioning, and edge-side use cases.

Jul 25, 2026·5 min

Why Are China's Open-Source AI Models Getting Stronger? A Deep Dive Into Three Comeback Strategies

Facing US chip bans and closed-source monopoly, how do China's open-source AI models keep fighting back? A deep dive into three core paths: open-source pricing games, optical interconnect positioning, and on-device scenarios.

Microsoft's Two-Track AI Coding Strate…

Jul 21, 2026·3 min

Microsoft's Two-Track AI Coding Strategy: A Deep Dive into Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

Microsoft plans to launch Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, making the terminal the new frontier for AI coding. A deep dive into Microsoft's multi-model strategy and its impact on developer workflows.

Jul 15, 2026·4 min

Two Paths to Better AI Reasoning: Test-Time Scaling and Formal Verification

This article synthesizes two MSR India Summit talks, exploring two key paths to better AI reasoning: test-time scaling with variable granularity search, and a formal verification framework for trustworthy agent execution.

Jul 13, 2026·4 min

AI Weekly Recap: Four Major Vendors Cut Prices Together, Copilot's Paid Conversion Rate Just 4.5%

In one week, OpenAI, xAI, Google, and Microsoft all cut AI prices, driving near-frontier inference costs sharply lower. Meanwhile, Microsoft Copilot's paid conversion across 450M seats is under 4.5%, exposing the monetization challenge of general AI assistants.

Jul 12, 2026·4 min

Unsloth Releases Qwen3.6 NVFP4 Quantization: 2.5x Faster with Zero Accuracy Loss

Unsloth releases NVFP4 quantization for Qwen3.6 using W4A4 true 4-bit Tensor Core computation, delivering up to 2.5x inference speedup over NVIDIA's official implementation with accuracy matching or exceeding BF16 on benchmarks like MMLU-Pro.

Jul 11, 2026·6 min

GPT Live Full-Duplex, Grok 4.5 Coding, Seedream 5.0 Images: AI Accelerates Across Three Tracks Simultaneously

OpenAI's GPT Live full-duplex voice model, Grok 4.5 coding model with Cursor, and ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro image generation launched together. A deep dive into three AI releases.

Jul 10, 2026·6 min

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6: Cybersecurity Capabilities Take Center Stage

OpenAI launches the GPT-5.6 model family with cybersecurity as its biggest highlight. A deep analysis of GPT-5.6's differentiation, double-edged-sword effect, and enterprise strategy.

Jul 10, 2026·2 min

Tencent Hunyuan V3 Open-Sourced: Full Breakdown of the 295B MoE Architecture — 256K Context Is Its Biggest Weakness

Tencent open-sources Hunyuan V3: 295B MoE model with 21B active params, claims to beat DeepSeek-V4-Pro. Supports FP8, vLLM/SGLang — but 256K context and no multimodal are key drawbacks.

Jul 10, 2026·6 min

AI's Second Half: The Decisive Battle Shifts from Models to Infrastructure

Model capabilities are converging, making inference cost and scalability the new focus of AI competition. A deep analysis of AI infrastructure's core layers.

Jul 10, 2026·2 min

GPT-5.6 Sol Series Coming Soon: A Deep Dive into the Three-Model Architecture

OpenAI may release the GPT-5.6 series this Thursday, featuring three models: Sol, Terra, and Luna. A deep dive into the naming logic, product strategy, and competitive implications.

Jul 9, 2026·5 min

Is AI Inference Really Profitable? Deconstructing the Cost Economics of Inference vs. Training

Are AI companies really losing money? This article deconstructs the fundamental differences between training and inference costs, revealing why pure AI inference services have structural profitability.

Jul 9, 2026·8 min

Fable 5 Opens to All Paid Users: How AI Storytelling Tools Are Reshaping Content Production

Fable 5, an AI storytelling platform, opens to all paid users and sparks debate on Hacker News. We analyze AI creation tools' practicalization trend across product positioning, competition, and access strategy.

Jul 8, 2026·5 min

U.S. Treasury Warns of AI Bubble Risk: Systemic Concerns and Investment Rationality

The U.S. Treasury has issued a rare internal warning that the AI investment boom may be forming an asset bubble, with valuations detached from fundamentals and systemic risks mounting.