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While companies shift to cheap open models, Alibaba's new image model Qwen-Image-2.1 shut the door on commercial use. The difference between being able to download a model and being allowed to use it for work.

On September 22, Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Luna all launched on the same day and the price sheets changed dramatically. What that means, in numbers, for the credits and subscriptions designers pay for.

Two frontier models released two days apart. Official specs, third-party evaluations and early reactions from designers, side by side with sources.

Exploration and mass production go to AI; direction and final checks stay with people. A boundary I only saw after months of use.

Whether it's a client or a prompt box, you end up explaining style in words. A way of breaking style into six layers.

Twenty-plus boards, and still I start every project by searching from scratch. How to collect references you can actually pull back out.

When you want to read, when you want to show your work, when you need an answer fast. Korea's design communities, sorted by what they're good for.

Copyright, terms of service, lookalikes, contracts. What to check in practice, in order. Written from Korea, with the US for comparison.