The Trace Manifest
Subscribe
Corrections Subscribe

Follow the evidence.
Understand the change.

A current, evidence-linked intelligence platform showing what changed in AI, what is credible, what is disputed, and what people should actually use.

View the feed Ask a question

86

Published stories

377

Evidence records

22

Models tracked

Tracking 14 topics

Daily briefing: —

Latest published stories

View all →

What we track

Models & Providers

Frontier, open-weight, and local models. Pricing, capabilities, hardware requirements, and independent benchmarks.

Browse models →

Benchmarks

Methodology-aware comparison. Vendor claims vs independent results. Saturation, contamination, and reproducibility flags.

Browse benchmarks →

Research & Open Source

Papers, repositories, releases, and community discoveries with evidence grading.

Browse research →

How we rate evidence

Confirmed Disputed Unverified Vendor-reported Corrected Outdated

Every rating is decomposable into source class, evidence quality, corroboration, timeliness, and independence. Read our full methodology →

Stay current

Daily Briefing

Reviewed model releases, pricing changes, research, and security developments when a briefing has been published.

Read the latest briefing →

Newsletter & RSS

Get the daily briefing by email or follow via RSS. Briefings published as downloadable Markdown.

Subscribe via RSS →