html The Tech Nation — Newsletter #7 body { margin: 0; padding: 20px; background: #e5e5e5; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; } Issue #8 · June 2026 People. Tech. Impact. the-tech-nation.com · Subscribe → Coming up · Barcelona ⚡ Claude Meetup #4 Get on the list → 🧀 Cheese, Tech & Wine #4 Reserve a seat → 🛠️ Crewly Cohort #3 Apply now → This issue: a clean panorama of the LLM landscape in June 2026, mainstream and underground. And a long look at why the Anthropic vs OpenAI fight reads exactly like Apple vs Microsoft, 40 years later. Main Feature Our heart beats for Claude. Here is how we read the rest of the LLM map. No model does everything in 2026. The smart move is one model per job. Eight names you should already know, five you probably don't. Here is the short version. Anthropic · Our default driver Claude 4.7 ★ Pick Shines at. Writing with taste. Code with judgment. Agentic loops that don't lose context. The strongest "internal conversation" of any model on the market right now. Open it for. 95% of jobs. Everything below is what we open it for when Claude is the wrong tool. The seven others worth knowing OpenAI GPT 5 Shines. Native multimodal, structured outputs, ecosystem reach. For. Image plus text workflows. Custom GPTs. Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Shines. 2M token context. Video and image understanding. For. Long doc analysis. Video parsing. DeepSeek DeepSeek R1 Shines. Serious reasoning at a fraction of the price. For. High volume jobs. Cost sensitive pipelines. Mistral · France Mistral Large Shines. European hosting, on premise, sovereign stack. For. Sensitive data. GDPR locked use cases. Meta Llama 4 Shines. Open weights, fine tunable, runs anywhere. For. Edge devices. Embedded products. Custom fine tuning. Alibaba Qwen 3 Shines. Strongest open Chinese model. Deep multilingual. For. Non English markets. Multilingual products. xAI Grok 3 Shines. Live X feed access. Looser tone. Less filtered. For. Real time intel. Edgy content drafts. Next up The five names you should already follow, just below. Confidentials · names worth knowing Five models you should already follow. Reka Core. Ex DeepMind team. Strong video understanding. Way under the radar. Liquid AI. Tiny edge models that run on a phone offline. The bet on locality. Command R+ (Cohere). Native RAG. The B2B enterprise pick most people skip. Kimi K2 (Moonshot). 1M token context in one pass. The marathon runner. Inflection 2.5. Half absorbed by Microsoft. Still alive. Still one of the warmest conversational models out there. The reflex. Pick a model per job. The era of "one model rules them all" is closing. Hot Take Anthropic vs OpenAI is Apple vs Microsoft. 40 years late. Swap Steve Jobs for Dario Amodei. Bill Gates for Sam Altman. The script is almost identical. Five moments to make the point. Then · Apple vs Microsoft Now · Anthropic vs OpenAI 01 · The founding split 1976 Jobs and Wozniak leave HP and Atari. Found Apple in a garage. 2021 Dario and Daniela Amodei walk out of OpenAI with a dozen researchers. Philosophical disagreement on safety. Found Anthropic. 02 · The rival who funds you 1997 Microsoft saves a near bankrupt Apple with 150M dollars. Gates appears on the Macworld big screen behind Jobs. Boos in the room. 2023 · 2024 Amazon puts 4 then 8 billion into Anthropic. Google adds 2 billion. The number two bets on the quality outsider. 03 · Ubiquity vs product Windows everywhere Microsoft licenses to every PC builder on earth. Mac OS stays premium and vertically integrated. ChatGPT everywhere OpenAI ships to every device, every partner. Anthropic builds Claude Code, Skills, MCPs, Cowork as one integrated suite. 04 · The "1984" moment 1984 Apple airs the "1984" ad. Big Brother gets a hammer in the face. Differentiation by values, not specs. 2024 Anthropic publishes its Constitutional AI, its Responsible Scaling Policy, its interpretability papers. Same move. Differentiation by ethics. 05 · The king is fired (and comes back) 1985 → 1997 Jobs is pushed out of Apple by his own board. Returns 12 years later to save it. Nov 2023 Altman is fired by his own board. Returns five days later. Same drama, compressed from 12 years to one week. Apple passed Microsoft on market cap in 2010. 34 years after its founding. The product company beats the platform company. Slowly. Then all at once. Plug in Building in Barcelona? Here's how to plug in. Four altitudes. Pick the one that matches where you are right now. Level 01 · Claude Community Events A window on the hype. The networking room. The only official Anthropic format in Barcelona. Come for the launches, stay for the people who are actually building. Best entry point if you want to know what's going on. Follow & register → Level 02 · Cheese, Tech & Wine Masterclass format. Smaller room. Hands-on. Around 80 people, one focused theme, real practice. You leave with concrete inputs, not a tote bag. Cheese and wine included. Reserve a seat → Level 03 · Crewly Cohort Tiny group. Real protos. Built together. Cohorts of 8. Two hours. You bring an idea, we build the prototype together. By the end you have something that actually works, and a team that knows how to ship it. Apply for Cohort #3 → Level 04 · Crewly · The Tech Nation A real tech team. At your service. Day one. You want to learn, you also want to ship. You need a tech team behind you, not a course. That's Crewly. Product, tech, AI, delivery, integrated. Plug into it instead of building it. Book a demo → Agenda · June 🧀 The Tech Nation · Coming up Cheese, Tech & Wine #4 · Barcelona Around 80 people, one focused theme, hands on. You leave with something concrete. Cheese and wine included. Reserve a seat → ⚡ Claude Community Claude Meetup #4 The only official Anthropic format in Barcelona. Builders, launches, real conversations. Get on the list → Crewly · Workshop Crewly Cohort #3 Cohorts of 8. Two hours. Bring your idea, leave with a prototype that holds. Apply on Luma → Sep 22–23 · Barcelona AI Summit Barcelona · Early Birds Lovable, AWS, and Anthropic confirmed. 200+ speakers. 10,000+ attendees. Prices going up soon. JEMW20 · 20% off aisummitbarcelona.com → If this is useful, forward it. If you are building something serious, let's talk. You're building something. You want to move faster. Let's talk about how we can help. LET'S TALK LinkedIn Instagram the-tech-nation.com People. Tech. Impact. Got this from a friend? Subscribe to The Tech Nation newsletter →