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Microsoft distilled a billion-parameter pathology model into 22M parameters
GigaPath-Flash keeps its teacher's accuracy to within 3 percent at roughly 50 times less compute, under Apache 2.0 with the weights on Hugging Face. The companion tumour model went the other way and beat its original, most of all out of distribution. Neither is validated for clinical use, and Microsoft says so first.
Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 4 min read
DeepSeek's first V4 vision model is MIT-licensed, and 307 GB
DeepSeek shipped an open-weight multimodal model under MIT this weekend. Its own files carry three things the coverage left out: the download size, the fact that every benchmark is self-reported, and a footnote saying two of the wins are over a model that cannot see.
Ahmad J · Sep 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Open-Source vs Closed AI Models: The Business Risk Your Team Isn't Pricing In
Engineering teams are making multimillion-dollar bets on AI model provenance without a coherent risk register, exposing them to vendor lock-in, licensing liabilities, and auditability gaps. CFOs and legal teams are starting to ask tough questions: here's how leading orgs are actually navigating th
Ahmad J · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Small AI Models Are Quietly Winning in Production
Frontier models get the headlines, but inside real companies smaller, cheaper, faster models do the actual work. Here's how they win, where they don't, and what it costs to ignore them.
Ahmad J · Aug 14, 2026 · 4 min read
Open-Weight Models Changed Who Controls the AI Stack
Open-weight models are now good enough that many teams no longer depend on a single vendor's API. The real shift isn't cost: it's control and portability. The same weights can run in-house or across competing hosts, so no one provider owns your stack by default.
Ahmad J · Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read