Hardware patch notes.

The arena's synergy weights are live. When the meta shifts, we publish the diff.

• 2026-04-24

  Arena v0.1 — Launch Synergies

  Initial synergy weights. Claude Code + Opus leads at +15 Precision. Codex + GPT-5 at +12. FAISS + LlamaIndex unlocks EMP.

  • PRC+15
  • PRC+12
  • SYN+1

• 2026-04-24

  Brain-Imbalance Penalty Introduced

  A RAG layer without an Index now costs -15 Precision. VRAM ≫ RAM gap costs -10 Speed. Forces honest loadouts.

  • PRC−15
  • SPD−10

• 2026-04-24

  Blackwell Liquid Thermal Tune

  Factory-liquid 5090 SKUs get +3 Resilience over air-cooled variants. Sustained-inference reality check.

  • RES+3