Latent.space Retrospective of 2026 Technical AI Themes
The month-by-month structure makes it a compact index of which model releases, acquisitions and infrastructure shifts actually dominated 2026, useful for spotting what faded versus what compounded. Builders can mine it for tooling trends like MCP Apps and agent dispatch patterns. Chinese labs appear repeatedly through DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM releases, giving a side-by-side view against US lab moves.
