Putting aside the reignited distillation war, today's news cycle is much the same as the last few days. Because of this, it's the perfect time to release our interview with Eiso Kant—a new Western "neolab" competing in some ways with Thinking Machines (better benchmarks at roughly 10x smaller scale) and more efficient than its Chinese counterparts. We can't summarize it any better than this Reddit user did: Cheaper than DeepSeek V4 Flash, stronger than V4 Pro.
What's their secret? Eiso has already laid it out in the