Adoption, Not Models: What Klarna Got Right
What xAI's latest move means for contract review in the second half of 2026.
The interesting question is not whether Zed works. It does. The interesting question is what teams do with it once the novelty wears off.
Eval harnesses, once an afterthought, are becoming the most important piece of code in many AI projects. HubSpot's team treats theirs the way an SRE team treats a runbook.
The skeptical read is that we are watching a feature, not a platform. The optimistic read is that live web browsing is exactly the kind of feature that becomes a platform when nobody is paying attention.
What Mistral actually shipped with Grok 4 is less a single capability and more a cluster of small, compounding improvements — the kind that only show up when you put a real workflow on top.
Eval harnesses, once an afterthought, are becoming the most important piece of code in many AI projects. Ramp's team treats theirs the way an SRE team treats a runbook.
What Inflection actually shipped with Phi-4 is less a single capability and more a cluster of small, compounding improvements — the kind that only show up when you put a real workflow on top.
What Cohere actually shipped with Llama 4 is less a single capability and more a cluster of small, compounding improvements — the kind that only show up when you put a real workflow on top.
None of this guarantees a clean story. Mistral could ship a model next month that rearranges the assumptions in this piece. But the direction of travel, for now, is clear enough to plan around.