Research Briefs — 07 entries

AI Reports

Research briefs on artificial intelligence: agentic software engineering, language models, reasoning, context management, policy, and infrastructure.

Workbench Report
MiniMax M3 vs Qwen3.7 Max
Which open-weight worker is the better default when both drive Thinkwright's autonomous agent loop through the same hidden-graded coding tasks?
June 2026 MiniMax M3, Qwen3.7 Max, hidden graders, Fireworks, Together
Research Workflow
Defensible Deep Research with Open-Weight Models
Can a harness delegate reading and drafting to low-cost open-weight models while keeping final claims tied to sources and checked for accuracy?
June 2026 Gemma 4, Nemotron 3 Ultra, frontier coordination, source verification
Research Brief
Cognitive Yield
How much useful cognitive work is society extracting from the energy committed to AI? Tokens-per-watt measures throughput; cognitive yield measures outcome.
April 2026 Stanford IPW, OpenRouter, IEA, Sequoia, Gartner, Epoch AI
Research Paper
Confidence Without Calibration
How LLM agents fail at scope boundaries, and what behavioral traces reveal about the gap between instruction and execution.
April 2026 428 agents, 10K probes, Gloaguen et al., wshobson/agents
Research Brief
AI Factory Site Selection
Where power, water, and permits are colliding at gigawatt scale.
April 2026 PJM, ERCOT, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, DOE, Google, Kyle Bass
Research Brief
AI Infrastructure Economics
Which AI infrastructure path delivers the best EBITDA profile?
March 2026 NVIDIA, CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, AWS, Anthropic
Research Brief
AI Chip Export Controls
Are US semiconductor export restrictions actually slowing China's AI progress?
January 2026 NVIDIA, Huawei, SMIC, DeepSeek, BIS