The Free Ghost Model, 15% Hardware Hikes, and Lady Gaga's AI Biotech Startup

Yesterday in AI | 25 August 2026 The Free Ghost Model, 15% Hardware Hikes, and Lady Gaga's AI Biotech Startup The velvet rope around frontier artificial intelligence is officially sagging. For two years, building top-tier models was a members-only club requiring billions in capital. This episode breaks down "Ox Alpha," a mysterious, unattributed model quietly released on OpenRouter that matches leading proprietary coding models for free with a 1-million-token context window—raisin...