Closed Source, Open Source Or Open Weights, Which Is Winning The AI Race?
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Closed Source, Open Source Or Open Weights, Which Is Winning The AI Race? The AI race has split into two races. After the introduction, the article argues that “closed models,” “open …
How Will The Future Software Engineer Distinquish Itself When Writing Code Becomes Fully Commoditized?
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. How Will The Future Software Engineer Distinquish Itself When Writing Code Becomes Fully Commoditized? I have not hand-written much code lately. After noting that AI speeds up implementation, the author argues …
Google Is Falling Even Further Behind In The AI Race
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Google Is Falling Even Further Behind In The AI Race A new model, Gemini 3.6 Flash, which cuts paid output pricing from $9.00 to $7.50 per million tokens versus Gemini 3.5 …
The First Successful Autonomous Agentic Cyber Attack
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. The First Successful Autonomous Agentic Cyber Attack OpenAI did not announce GPT-6. It disclosed something more useful, and more alarming, for anyone building AI systems. The author argues that the incident …
Opus 5 Was Just Released And Its …
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Opus 5 Was Just Released And Its … Impressive, it is very impressive and the ‘comeback’ Anthropic needed. However, when I am choosing a model for a coding, the cheap-looking winner …
10 Markets to Target for Your Next $10K MRR App
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Your next app does not need millions of users to reach $10K MRR. Your next app does not need millions of users to reach $10K MRR. It needs a painful recurring …
Lets Be Realistic About Kimi Open Source
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. K3 deserves the headline This article was written after I saw an interview from the DataBricks CEO, which suprised me a lot. Kimi K3 has earned the excitement. Moonshot’s new model …
Kimi K3 Proved That China Caught Up, Its Fable 5 and 5.6 Sol’s Direct Competition Now
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Kimi K3 Proved That China Caught Up, Its Fable 5 and 5.6 Sol’s Direct Competition Now China has caught up on intelligence. Kimi K3 is the clearest release-day evidence I have …
My Agentic Kit Extension Using The Latest Innovations In Loop Engineering
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. My Agentic Kit Extension Using The Latest Innovations In Loop Engineering I rebuilt my agentic coding kit again because I had made the exact mistake I keep seeing in coding-agent setups: …
Codex Just Became Unlimited! Also GPT 5.6 Is Actually Really…
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Codex Just Became Unlimited! Also GPT 5.6 Is Actually Really… Amazing. Well, it depends on who you ask. In my opinion, GPT-5.6 is my favorite release yet. The author says Codex …