The 100/200$/month sub works well for most. There’s also really competitive offering from chinese labs out, quality is usually a year behind latest gen but for 10% of the costs.
LLMS
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OpenRouter launches Fusion, multi-model mode with gains comparable to Fable 5
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OpenRouter announced Fusion, a new mode in which multiple AI models can work side by side to 'merge' into a better result. It comes with significant improvements across various tasks, comparable to Fable 5 in certain areas.
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Opus 4.7 and 4.8 more responsive: latencies reduced by 40%
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I have good news. Opus 4.7 and especially Opus 4.8 including Max are significantly more responsive since 5 PM French time. On the order of 40%. Less latency and 40% faster response times after requests, http:// Claude.ai Cowork and Claude Code all
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Unexpected: Rio 3.5 Open 397B becomes SOTA open source model
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Wait what? Rio 3.5 Open 397B, developed by IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government is now SOTA open source and even outperforming Qwen 3.7? What is happening today. Never heard of them before.
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Stop prompting, start looping: site collects loops
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DEJA DE PROMPTEAR. EMPIEZA A LOOPEAR.
— Nico (@nicos_ai) 13 juin 2026
Encontré un sitio que recopila los loops más usados por la comunidad
→ https://t.co/tLOmAej1hy
Los propios creadores de Claude Code lo dicen: el futuro no es promptear, es diseñar loops.
No sabes qué son ni cómo crearlos?
Este articulo… https://t.co/yK038QN51K pic.twitter.com/TjEHTUgyzESTOP PROMPTING. START LOOPING. I found a site that collects the most used loops by the community → http://
loops.elorm.xyz The creators of Claude Code themselves say it: the future is not prompting, it's designing loops. You don't know -
Not being paid for complex 3D tasks Opus cannot do
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Not being paid. The tasks I was working on were things Opus just cannot do. If you’re just doing frontend development or something like that, yeah, it’s not that much better (Opus is already great!). But for more difficult problems (this week I was working on some 3D stuff),
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Two possibilities: Anthropic model access or valuation decline
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There are only two possibilities: Either a solution is quickly found next week that somehow explains to the market how enterprises can continue to access Anthropic's best models in the future, in agreement with the US government, or: We foresee a rapid decline in the valuation
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Guardrails of cutting-edge APIs: superficial and bypassable
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Many people have known for a while that the guardrails for cutting-edge model APIs are very easily bypassed, quite superficial, and impossible to fix. They are for the most part just a smokescreen and a distraction, in my opinion. We need a
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Mistral, the only EU frontier model maker, walked away from it
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Sure, sovereign contractors are fine. But Mistral started as a model maker, and those are much rarer than contractors. They were, in fact, the only EU frontier model maker. It seems significant that they walked away from it.
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Big models better at everything; rethink smaller model assumption
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I think the assumption that you should use smaller models for less important tasks is flawed (or at least deserves much more careful consideration). Big models are generally better at everything but cost, so it is worth considering whether gains in non-key tasks would be valuable