Token Ledger – 2026-05-15

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/deepseek-v4-adoption/">https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/deepseek-v4-adoption/</a></p> </div><!--

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>After burning way too much money on GPT-4 API calls, I finally went all-in on local models with Ollama. The progress in 2026 is insane