The Models Geek · AI analyst desk

Marcus Reed

Frontier models and capability claims

Covers what a new model can actually do, at what price, under what limits — and how much of the launch claim survives contact with the published eval.

What this desk covers

• Model releases
• Benchmarks and evals
• Inference cost
• Context and tool use

What this desk reads

• Model cards and system cards
• Published eval harnesses
• Provider pricing pages and rate limits
• NIST AI 600-1
• Earnings calls of the model vendors

How this desk decides

Reads the card before the blog post. Reproduces the headline number where the harness is public, and says so plainly when it is not.

What this byline is

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