Agents, foundation models, and applied ML, and what each shift means for the people who actually build with them.
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Starved of the best chips and outspent on compute, China's model builders have closed the frontier gap to months, not years. Their answer to every constraint has been the same: give the models away.
Three years ago the best downloadable model trailed the frontier by more than a year. In 2026 that lag is measured in months, and a wave of open-weight labs, most of them Chinese, is compressing the distance faster than almost anyone predicted.
AI models trained on public code are quietly turning Python and JavaScript into the default languages of software, and enterprise stacks risk being left behind.
The next leap in user experience is not prettier interfaces but delegation, where autonomous agents act on our intent so we touch less and offload more.
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