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Dumbbell chart of bartowski's Nemotron-3.5-Lightning GGUF files: bits per weight the filename claims against bits per weight measured from the tensor table, every k- and i-quant rung landing at or above a 4.5 bpw floor

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

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Matrix of GLM-5.3's sixteen OpenRouter endpoints on 2026-08-29 05:24 UTC, grouped by self-declared quantization: bf16 one host at $1.20/$4.00, fp8 seven hosts at $1.25–1.40 in, fp4 two hosts at $1.40/$4.40, unknown six hosts at $1.40/$4.40

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

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Four-stage diagram for Kimi K3: 2.8T weights free to download → host needs 8× GB300 or more → reported revenue share of up to 30% → token auditing unresolved. Below it, the three license thresholds: $20M over 12 months, 100M MAU or $20M a month, internal use and certified partners exempt

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

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Hand-drawn illustration: an open-air bazaar of model makers' stalls; at the gate a brass shovel-maker's cart has parked while a porter ties a single yellow reservation ribbon to the gatepost

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

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Timeline of two distribution-layer deals in 2026: Hugging Face declines Nvidia's $500M at a $7B valuation in January, OpenRouter announces it is joining Stripe on 19 August, Hugging Face is reported exploring a sale at $13B or more on 23 August

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

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Bar chart of top-1 token flips against the BF16 reference at 88k context: INT8 about 15 percent, official FP8 about 20 percent highlighted, AWQ W4A16 about 30 percent, NVFP4 about 50 percent

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

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Unsloth's Qwen3.8-27B GGUF chart: top-1% accuracy against file size for four quantization providers

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

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Cover card: A price sheet, and a model with no name

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

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The source post-mortem's cover art: server racks trading cables in the dark (The Daily Brief)

Routers aren't dead — per-request routing is

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