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HOT AI Summer: The Wild, Loud, and Unstoppable Wave of 2025
TokenCalculator Editorial
August 9, 2025
Welcome to the HOT AI Summer. The releases are relentless and the stakes are real. GPT-5 debuts unified intelligence, Claude 4.1 quietly crushes real engineering tasks, Qwen3-Coder-Flash drops a 1M-token context, and DeepSeek torches pricing.
Four shifts
- Unified intelligence: GPT-5 routes complexity internally.
- Agentic workflows: Claude 4.1 stays on-task, plans, revises, delivers.
- Long context: Million-token windows go mainstream.
- Price wars: Value models force everyone to sharpen pencils.
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