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Anyone Can Copy the Methodology. Only One Lab Can Keep the Promise.
Vinci ships August 8 with the methodology published in full - so competitors can copy it. The thing they can't copy is whether the model actually does what its constitution says, i...
What I Got Wrong About Canadian-Specialized AI
For six months I was sure the answer was a from-scratch Canadian AI model. Seven days ago that broke. I had confused the model with the system - and the open-book version is the bi...
Own or Be Owned: The Week a Letter Switched Off Fable 5
On June 12 a government letter reached past Anthropic and switched off the best coding model I'd ever used. The shutdown wasn't the lesson - what it revealed about renting intellig...
We Are No Longer Building a Canadian Legal AI Model
Yesterday I published the post-mortem: we asked flash-1-mini ten questions any Canadian lawyer would consider basic, and it invented seven citations. That post was about what brok...
We Asked Our 4B Legal AI 10 Questions. It Invented 7 Cases.
An honest post-mortem on our own model — and what anyone building or buying AI should take from it.
Open Weights, Closed System
Google shipped local AI on the Mac this week. The weights are Apache 2.0. The experience is a walled garden. That's not a contradiction. That's the playbook.
Why CBLRE Matters More Than the Model
Yesterday we released CBLRE — the Canadian Bilingual Legal and Regulatory Evaluation. The day before, we released flash-1-mini, a 4-billion-parameter bilingual Canadian legal AI m...
Closed Orchestrators Will Commoditize. Open Ones Will Compound.
Two AI infrastructure announcements landed in the same week. Ours was a model. We released flash-1-mini — a 4-billion-parameter bilingual Canadian legal AI — under Apache 2.0, alo...
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