Do You Feel the Acceleration?

Session 20 of Living on the Frontier, in person at The Kannas Hotel in Chiang Mai — two weeks of news pooled, since the July 11 session gave way to the reschedule.

The fortnight had one plot: everyone started fighting over who gets to do the work. Five new models hit the scene in fourteen days and open weights led real benchmarks for the first time. The labs turned rate limits into a marketing channel — resets raining like confetti, an 81,000-like tweet about quota. Agents got credentials, a lunch budget, and multiplayer artifacts, while every lab published what goes wrong when they misbehave. And underneath it all, $5B+ was committed to AI implementation — the labs themselves going into the hands-on-keyboard business.

Present the deck for the full walk-through.