A laptop, a folder, and a 5:21 PM email (opens in new tab)

Three AI stories landed in the last couple of weeks. On the surface they have nothing to do with each other. A new file format from Google. A small model that runs on your laptop. A frontier model getting yanked off the grid by the US government. Read them together and they're the same story told three ways. The thing you actually depend on, access to a capable model through someone else's API, is the most fragile part of your stack. Two of these launches let you own more of that stack. The t...