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  1. Why your IQ2 GGUF is the same size as IQ4: the 256-block fallback in llama-quantize

    Linden Kern

  2. GLM-5.3 open weights, day one: 16 providers, five prices, four quantizations — and BF16 is the cheapest

    Linden Kern

  3. Cursor loses OpenAI models on November 12: the change-of-control clause behind the date, and the five questions to ask whoever holds your key

    Leo Kaka

  4. One API for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models: what translates, and the seven things that leak through

    Leo Kaka

  5. Kimi K3 license, commercial use: the $20M MaaS clause, the 100M-MAU badge, and the 30% Moonshot wants from Azure, AWS and Google

    Linden Kern

  6. OpenRouter alternatives for production workloads: what Cloudflare, Bedrock, Vertex, Groq, LiteLLM and Portkey actually document

    Leo Kaka

  7. Nvidia in talks to buy Hugging Face: the investor refused in January is the buyer in August

    Linden Kern

  8. Shared team wallet for LLM APIs: who actually has one, and what each cap misses

    Leo Kaka

  9. Automatic failover in LiteLLM, Portkey and OpenRouter: what actually triggers it, and the 429 no gateway tracks

    Leo Kaka

  10. Per-key spending limits: what LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Portkey enforce — and the four leaks a cap doesn't close

    Leo Kaka

  11. Is the vLLM tool-call parser safe? CVE-2025-9141, the 29-day eval() window, and four checks a gateway owes you

    Leo Kaka

  12. Hugging Face said no to one dominant investor. Eight months later it is exploring a sale

    Linden Kern

  13. Price-change notice: 14 days, 30 days, or nothing at all

    PiRouter Team

  14. The MCP roadmap hands agent identity to your gateway

    PiRouter Team

  15. FP8 flips 20% of top-1 tokens, and tool calls break first

    Linden Kern

  16. Qwen3.8-27B: seven endpoints, one name, two prices

    Linden Kern

  17. Retry storms: 9K to 100K RPS, and four rules that stop them

    Leo Kaka

  18. ox-alpha vs deepseek-v4-flash: what a stealth model hides

    Linden Kern

  19. DeepSeek peak pricing: which 30% of your bill can move

    Leo Kaka

  20. Routers aren't dead — per-request routing is

    Linden Kern

  21. Tier 3 to Tier 1 mid-flight: the outage no 5xx will catch

    Leo Kaka