MODEL-ROUTING

Factory AI's Droid agent surfaces a new competitive front in coding tools: cost-per-completed-task. Here's what their architecture reveals about where the whole industry is heading.

A first-hand visit to DeepSeek HQ reveals something more interesting than benchmark scores: a 300-person company that treats AI as infrastructure, not eschatology - and what that means for API pricing everywhere.

OpenRouter gives you one API key for 300+ models, automatic fallbacks, and intelligent provider routing. Here is what it actually costs, how to set it up in five minutes, and when you should skip it entirely.

Microsoft's new in-house coding model matters less as a benchmark headline and more as a signal that Copilot is becoming a routing layer for cost, latency, ownership, and review quality.