Model Briefs

What every notable AI model means for the engineers shipping it.

BearPlex engineering briefs on noteworthy AI model launches: architecture, training data, license, deployment economics, and where each model fits in a real production system.

Legal LLM2026.05.08

SaulLM-7B

The first open-source legal LLM, and what it changes about shipping legal AI in production.

Equall.ai

9 min read

Multilingual Medical LLM2026.05.08

Apollo

An open multilingual medical LLM serving 6 languages and 6.1 billion people, and why even US-only health systems should care.

FreedomIntelligence

8 min read

Neural Game Engine2026.05.08

GameNGen

Google DeepMind's diffusion model that runs DOOM at 20 frames per second, and why this matters for industries that aren't gaming.

Google DeepMind

7 min read