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Get broader context beyond release notes: AI market shifts, startup dynamics, ecosystem analysis, and opinionated takes on where frontier AI is heading next.

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Insights posts focus on strategic context: why certain AI products win, how market cycles affect builders, and what technical shifts mean for teams shipping real features.

These pieces complement our launch and engineering posts by helping readers connect day-to-day product decisions to broader long-term trends across the AI landscape.

February 22, 2026Foundry Update

The Foundry Report: Why Fine-Tuned Models Are Still the Sharpest Weapon in Enterprise AI

Tinker is now generally available. Vision input, Kimi K2 Thinking, and LoRA Without Regret are reshaping what custom model training looks like in 2026. Here's why fine-tuning is more strategically important than ever — and how LeemerLabs Model Foundry is building the infrastructure to prove it.

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Repath 'Ray' Khan, Founder of LeemerLabs
December 14, 2025Year in Review

Happy Holidays from LeemerChat: Year in Review 🎄

This holiday season, we're reflecting on an incredible year together. From V3 to V4.9, over 1.5B+ tokens processed, LeemerLite at 1,750 T/s, PowerCode, and welcoming GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Gemini 3, and Qwen — here's to building the future together.

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Repath 'Ray' Khan, Founder of LeemerChat
December 3, 2025Editorial

The $50B Vibe Coding Time Bomb: Why 80% of Startups Die from Shitty Code

Vibe coding feels fast, but it hides a $50B cleanup bill. This editorial exposes why 80% of startups crash because of sloppy code and how frontier AI turns vibes into infrastructure.

Vibe CodingEngineering DisciplineFrontier AIStartups
Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerLabs
December 1, 2025Editorial

The $100B AI Bubble: Why 90% of AI Companies Will Be Worthless by 2027

The AI boom is the biggest technological surge since the internet — and it is dangerously overheated. Based on historical venture cycles, market concentration, and structural economics, 90% of today's AI companies will likely be worth close to zero by 2027. This is not pessimism. It is pattern recognition.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerLabs
December 1, 2025Deep dive

Why Sovereign AI Models Matter: The Case for Owning Your Intelligence

In a world where AI is becoming critical infrastructure, relying on third-party APIs is like renting your brain. We explore why self-hosted, sovereign AI models are the future—and why the smartest companies are already making the switch.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerLabs
November 22, 2025Product launch

Introducing LeemerLabs Model Foundry: Your Data. Your Model. Our GPUs.

We're launching Ireland's first custom LLM creation studio. Fine-tune frontier models up to 235B parameters using Tinker distributed training, powered by Thinking Machines Lab. Build domain-specific intelligence layers that you own and deploy anywhere.

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Repath Khan, Founder of LeemerLabs