The basicsAI glossary
Frontier model
The term used to describe the most advanced AI models of the moment, those pushing the boundaries of what the technology can do. The list is constantly changing: today's frontier model will be ordinary in a year.
In other words
Formula 1 prototypes of AI: a handful of exceptional machines whose innovations later equip production models.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- For two months, this AI model dominated the global rankings. No one knew who had created it
For two months, an anonymous model dubbed Owl Alpha dominated agentic coding usage on OpenRouter, with no one knowing who had built it. On 30 June 2026, the identity comes out: it's Meituan, a Chinese food-delivery company, with a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained without a single Nvidia chip.
- Why AIs hallucinate (and why they probably never will stop)
OpenAI announces a 65% reduction in hallucinations on GPT-5. Anthropic touts Claude's factual accuracy. And yet, all regular users keep seeing their AI make things up. Why? Because hallucinations are not a minor flaw. They are at the very core of how the technology works. An accessible, no-holds-barred explanation.
- SubQ: the startup that may have killed the transformer
Since 2017 and the publication of the paper "Attention is All You Need", every major AI model has been based on the transformer architecture. SubQ, launched on 5 May 2026, is the first commercial model to break with this paradigm. Here is what changes technically, and why the AI community is deeply divided over the implications.
- 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 30 years: what current research tells us about the future of AI
You cannot read the future. But you can build credible scenarios from current research and the predictions of credible experts. Here is what researchers genuinely expect for 2027, 2031, 2036 and 2056. No hype, no doom-mongering: just the hypotheses that hold up against the facts of 2026.
- The AI startups quietly outperforming while the giants collapse
In our article on the great AI failures, we showed how Sora, the Humane Pin, Microsoft Designer and Apple Siri crashed and burned in 2026. At the other end of the scale, some startups are posting growth curves never seen before in the history of software. Here is who is really winning, and why.
- DeepSeek V4: China rolls out its open-source weapon against OpenAI and Anthropic
On 24 April, DeepSeek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash, two open-source models that rival Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 for a fraction of the price. And they run on Chinese chips. Here is what that really changes.