China Trained a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model on 50,000 Homegrown Chips. No Nvidia.
Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0 on June 30: 1.6 trillion parameters, trained and served entirely on domestic Chinese silicon. The chip chokehold just got tested.
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California Just Handed Claude to 300,000 State Workers — at Half Price
On June 29 California became the biggest US government Claude deployment going. Half-price Claude for every agency — and a pointed contrast with the Pentagon.
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here: Near-Opus Muscle at a Fraction of the Bill
Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 — near-Opus performance at Sonnet money. Here is what changed, what breaks, and why the timing is not an accident.