Northwood Research

AI deployment, infrastructure, and economics.

Models, compute, token economics, private infrastructure, and the systems required to deploy AI where knowledge is the asset.

2 articles
June 22, 2026·Research

The State of Open-Source Models 2026: The Big Board

The definitive ranked board for open-weight AI models — all 21, graded on six axes, filtered by hardware tier, category, and license. Updated June 2026.

TOThe Open Models Desk·16 min read
June 16, 2026·Analysis

AI Token Economics: Why Cheaper Tokens Made Your Bill Explode

LLM prices fell ~80% in a year, and AI spend doubled anyway. The mechanism, the math, and what to do about it.

ALAndrew Liu·7 min read

Open-source inference

Production AI that answers for itself.

Every research note points to the same thesis: production inference is a stack problem. Providers, models, routing, cost, evidence, and operations. Northwood builds the open-source tooling and operates the whole system.