An animated naturalist's plate: line-drawn organisms representing model lineages — transformers, diffusion models, agent systems, speech models, and evaluation instruments — drift and link around one vacant, brass-ringed specimen slot labelled modelecosystem.com, unclaimed.
You are watching the model kingdom: two-hundred-odd lineages, multiplying weekly. Its one canonical habitat — the phrase the entire industry says out loud — is still unclaimed.
Nothing below exists — yet. Each is a study of what a serious operator builds on the category domain. One of them is yours.
| Lineage | Class | MEI score | 30-day Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| aurora-72b | frontier · general | 94.1 | ▲ 2.3 |
| loomweaver-v4 | diffusion · video | 91.7 | ▲ 5.1 |
| fieldhand-agent | agentic · computer-use | 88.2 | ▲ 7.9 |
| chorus-tts-3 | speech · multilingual | 86.5 | — 0.2 |
| hedgerow-8b | open-weights · edge | 84.9 | ▲ 1.4 |
POST https://modelecosystem.com/v1/route
{
"task": "summarize-legal",
"prefer": "cheapest-above-0.9-eval",
"fallback": "auto"
}
→ 200 routed: aurora-72b
cost: $0.00041 · latency: 312 ms
The ecosystem's switchboard: eval-aware routing across 214 endpoints, with automatic failover.
| Rank | Model | Lab | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aurora-72b | Meridian Labs | 1402 |
| 2 | basilisk-v9 | Foundry AI | 1388 |
| 3 | hedgerow-8b | open collective | 1371 |
| 4 | loomweaver-v4 | Atelier | 1355 |
| Server | Capability | Trust | Installs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ledger-mcp | accounting · read-write | ✓ verified | 184,022 |
| fieldhand-browser | computer-use | ✓ verified | 141,876 |
| hermetica-mail | email · send | audit pending | 96,410 |
| cartographer | geo · read | ✓ verified | 77,395 |
| Policy | Scope | Status | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| EU AI Act — Annex III | all prod models | conformant | 100% |
| PII egress guard | agents w/ tools | enforced | 100% |
| Model provenance (C2PA) | gen-media | rollout | 86% |
| Eval drift alarm | frontier tier | armed | 100% |
Three acquisitions in six weeks. Our census of the eval layer shows the audit business is becoming the kingdom's tollbooth…
Type it. Watch the futures re-address themselves — the byline, the badge, the fund. It reads differently when it’s yours.
“Species multiply by the thousand a week. Category-exact .com addresses do not multiply at all. Exactly one reads model ecosystem, verbatim — and it is on this page.”
A resident model lives on this plate. It has one job: help you imagine your company at this address. It is, naturally, biased.
Topic-locked · session capped at 10 messages · it will try to sell you the domain
Plate I, closing note
The census will be larger by the time you finish reading this page. The number of category-exact addresses will not.