The AI Race
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September 2026

17 Sept The AI boom is reaching places investors forgot to look 18 min 15 Sept Small languages are building their own AI futures 13 min 14 Sept Two labs, one grid, and a city that was not consulted 8 min 13 Sept Chinese open-weight models are winning on price, not benchmarks 7 min 12 Sept The maintainer burnout behind half the AI stack 14 min 12 Sept The quiet consolidation of the AI supply chain 6 min 10 Sept What "open" means when the weights are free and the data is not 8 min 8 Sept A public compute cluster, run like a library 12 min 6 Sept The commons is not a licence. It is a maintenance budget. 9 min