What lawyers need to know about how AI models are improving — and what it means for practice.
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OpenAI shipped smaller, cheaper versions of GPT-5.4 this week. Simon Willison estimated the nano model could process descriptions of every image in a 76,000-photo library for $52 total. Frontier-level capability is moving downmarket fast.
The Chinese electronics giant released a reasoning model scoring 49 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — placing it between Kimi K2.5 and GLM-5. Another non-US lab reaching competitive performance.
An 8-point jump over its predecessor released just one month ago. The price-performance curve continues to steepen.
Mistral released a 119B mixture-of-experts model with just 6.5B active parameters per token, supporting both reasoning and non-reasoning modes. Open-weights models continue closing the gap with proprietary ones.
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