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Edition 033 — Open weights cross a trillion parameters, a security model fights back, and Anthropic's best customers start watching the bill
Mistral ships a 1.05-trillion-parameter open-weight flagship, Reflection AI's Beam bets on inference efficiency, an open security model beats Claude Opus on cost by 31x, and Anthropic's two biggest customers quietly trim their Claude use ahead of a $2-trillion IPO — plus Suno Speech, Microsoft's streaming STT, EmbeddingGemma 2, and humanoids from Agility and Minerva.