Pick of the week
The first issue lands on Friday.
Every Friday one tracked model becomes the pick of the week: chosen by a published rule from measured signals, then explained in plain language — why now, where it runs, what it is for, and where its limits are.
Pick of the week is the model with the largest Heat Score rise over the last seven days among tracked models that run comfortably (GOOD or EXCELLENT) on at least one consumer card of up to 24 GB at 8K context. A rise counts only when it is at least three points and the model's own direction is not falling — a score that climbs while the model's trending and downloads fall has only moved because other models moved. Ties break by the higher Heat Score, then by 30-day downloads. A model cannot be picked again within four weeks. While the heat history is younger than a week, the rise is measured over the readings that exist and the report says so; when no rise counts, the rule falls back to the highest Heat Score and records that.