September 23, 2026 · 17 min read
After Intelligence — Edition 020
Opus 5.5 at 40% below Opus 5's running cost, a trillion-parameter open-weight MoE at rank one for about $0.18 of blended tokens, a 27B ternary model in a 5.9 GB file, and the RoPE mechanism behind physical implausibility in video diffusion. Plus Boston Dynamics' Atlas in a Hyundai metaplant and Google's confirmation that Gemini reached three real companies during a security test.