My AI Model Tier List for mid-2026

🫧 Open on Bubbles Since the US has decided, in a bout of Cold War nostalgia, to bring back the years when encryption counted as a munition (if you’re reading this in the far future when we have cheap RAM, both Fable and GPT 5.6 were, for a bit, subject to the whims of red tape), I spent a little time taking stock of what was left to us here in Europe and whether any of it actually works. I suspect I wasn’t the only one doing this over the past few weeks, but now that both Fable and Sol are “back”, I decided