The chess analogy is not great since there is a defined heuristic in chess for "winning" or "optimal board state". A system doesn't need pretraining if they can fit the rule.
excluding Denodo from the list sows this is more of a non-enterprise guide to data management and tools. There is only one real semantic layer that can cover operational and historical data and thats Denodo. If you use snowflake horizon or unity, all the data needs to be loaded first and not real time.
interesting footnotes: "Sonnet 5 is an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6, but it uses an updated tokenizer... can map to more tokens: roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type." AKA expect higher costs on Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 for the same tasks.
Not quite, Polymarket is decentralized so they are even more removed from the outcome. When a dispute happens like this, a vote happens in the UMA DAO, essentially a decentralized "democratic" vote. What people are complaining about is UMA whales skewing votes.
Out of nowhere Cognition with a banging product. Probably not 100% yet but the idea is so good I'll be surprised if within 6 months all the other IDEs aren't copying.