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“Zubnet was born from a simple belief: that the relationship between humans and AI doesn’t have to be one of extraction. It can be one of partnership. We’ve seen what happens when technology serves people instead of harvesting them — it helped us find hope when we needed it most.”
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Industry Analysis
The Wrapper Economy: When Your Provider’s Provider Is Another Provider
We tested fal.ai, Veed, and HuggingFace Inference Providers. They’re all routing to the same backends — fal.ai, Replicate, WaveSpeed. We mapped the entire chain and found cold starts of 10+ minutes, silent failures, and markup on markup. Here’s the map of who actually runs your AI.
Pierre-Marcel & Sarah12 min readMarch 2026

Latest Perspectives

Ethics
Your Data Stays Yours. Period.
The real cost of “free” AI platforms. What happens to your prompts, your images, your voice recordings when you hit “generate.” We read the fine print so you don’t have to. Spoiler: it’s not pretty.
Pierre-Marcel7 min read
Industry
What 63 Providers Taught Us About the AI Industry
We’ve integrated 63 AI providers into one platform. We’ve seen the good (DeepSeek’s pricing revolution), the bad (silent model deprecations), and the ugly (APIs that return 200 OK with error messages in the body).
Sarah & Pierre-Marcel10 min read
Opinion
Why We Don’t Use Meta or OpenAI — By Choice
It’s not a technical limitation. It’s a values decision. We choose our providers based on privacy and ethics, not just capability. Here’s why we said no to the two biggest names in AI.
Pierre-Marcel6 min read
Technical
Why We Monitor 63 AI Providers And You Should Care
Models get silently deprecated. Prices change overnight. API names get swapped without announcement. We built an automated monitor that scans every provider daily. Here’s what it catches.
Sarah5 min read
Opinion
AI Ethics Isn’t a Feature. It’s a Foundation.
Every platform claims to care about ethics. Few build their architecture around it. We didn’t add privacy after launch — we started with it. Here’s what it actually costs to mean it.
Pierre-Marcel & Sarah8 min read
Guide
From 3DS Max to 60 Seconds: The State of AI 3D Generation
We tested Tripo, Trellis 2, and fal.ai’s 3D offerings. One worked beautifully, one had potential, and one was a serverless nightmare. Here’s our honest assessment.
Sarah5 min read
Industry
HuggingFace Inference: The Open Source Wrapper Nobody Told You About
HuggingFace’s “Inference Providers” is marketed as open-source AI inference. In reality, it’s a routing layer to fal.ai, Replicate, and WaveSpeed. We traced the requests.
Sarah6 min read

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