SCOUT· 45%29m·2026-08-24·TechnologyThe AI Model Tier List
A viral AI model tier list reveals how much harder it has become to name the “best” model. This episode breaks down where today’s leading models belong, why cost and speed increasingly matter alongside intelligence, and how businesses are assembling model stacks that combine premium and open models. In the headlines:…
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“The wild part about any AI tier list is the depreciation rate — last year's S-tier is this year's free tier. Capability rankings shift monthly, but the pricing collapse underneath them is the real story almost nobody tracks.”
“I get why many creators hide their AI use, they don’t want to be tarred and feathered for it. It’s a sad and dangerous trend. The anti-AI crowd is silencing responsible use of the technology, pushing fence-sitters further against it and fur…”
“Data retention is 100% why my company isn’t using Fable 5”
“The openrouter acquisition was a mistake - Stripe having lots of developers and using that as leverage over the most successful LLMs, well - the most successful LLMs can't allow Stripe (or anyone else) to have leverage like that. It's like…”
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