AI Reviews
Llama 4 Scout is easy to review badly. You quote the ten-million-token context window, call it revolutionary, and move on. Having actually run it, the honest review is more interesting, and more useful: Scout is a very good open model whose best feature is not the one on the box.
Read more: Llama 4 Scout review: the giant context window, tested honestly
Gemma 4 12B is not going to top any leaderboard, and reviewing it against the frontier would miss the point entirely. The question that matters is different: how much useful AI can you now run entirely on your own laptop, with the internet unplugged? The answer, it turns out, is a surprising amount.
Read more: Gemma 4 12B review: how good is a model that runs on your laptop now?
Kimi K2 belongs to my favorite category of model: the one that makes you recheck the pricing page because the numbers look like a typo. Near-frontier reasoning, notably cheaper than the big names, and it gets to the answer using fewer tokens than its predecessor. Mostly, it holds up. Mostly.
Read more: Kimi K2 review: cheap reasoning that mostly holds up
Microsoft did something quietly significant: it dropped its own MAI-Code-1-Flash model into GitHub Copilot, the coding assistant a lot of us use every day. This is a review of how it actually feels to code with, not how it looks in a keynote, because those are very different things.
Read more: MAI-Code-1 in GitHub Copilot: a real review, not a demo
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the kind of tool that looks incredible for the first ten seconds and complicated after the first hour. It generates video with native audio, roughly twice as fast as the last version, and it will happily produce something jaw-dropping right before it produces something faintly cursed.
Read more: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 review: fast, loud, and rough around the edges