AI frontier model release intervals have shrunk from 37.5 days to 11 as labs face mounting engineer burnout, open-weight competition, and

Four frontier models shipped in ~96 hours. The re-evaluation tax is now the real cost of building on AI — and independent, ongoing model selection is the missing service.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google all released model updates this week, while Nvidia said it's acquiring open-source AI platform Hugging Face.