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Meta’s API sells Muse Wonder, not the Wonder Full that tops its chart
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October. We read the model card and the price page: the API gets the weaker one, and the benchmark footnotes...
Read moreDetailsLFM2.5-24B-A2B beats Qwen3.6 at tools and loses SWE-Bench by 15 points
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B with open weights. We read the full benchmark table and the license: strong at tool calls, weak at coding, and not free for every company.
Read moreDetailsRequests to gemini-3.7-flash now get 3.8 Flash, with no shutdown date
Google deprecated Gemini 3.7 Flash on 8 October and routes its traffic to 3.8 Flash, a month after calling 3.7 the efficiency pick. Here's what moves on the bill and...
Read moreDetailsOpenAI’s Decisions API charges $0.10 in and nothing out, with no cache
Decisions returns a probability, a choice or a score instead of text, on gpt-6-luna only. It's $0.10 in and free out, but with no caching a long rubric can cost...
Read moreDetailsGPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast bills six times Sol and 1.2 times Astra
Ultrafast on GPT-6.1 Sol costs $12 and $60 per million tokens: six times standard Sol, three times Fast, and 1.2 times Astra at normal speed. The guide is silent on...
Read moreDetailsClaude Haiku 5.5 is $0.10 per million until a prompt passes 100K
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October at $0.10 and $0.50 per million tokens. The footnote matters more than the headline: past 100,000 prompt tokens the rate jumps fivefold.
Read moreDetailsReflection Beam is a 501B open model with no weights yet
Reflection AI's Beam is a 501B mixture of experts with an Apache 2.0 promise, a waitlist and benchmark scores nobody outside can check yet.
Read moreDetailsKolibri-1 serves 1M tokens but was trained to 256K
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri-1 on 3 October 2026 under Apache 2.0. The headline says 1M tokens of context. The model card says it was trained on sequences up to 256K,...
Read moreDetailsGemini 4 Argon costs $2 and $10 now, $4 and $20 later
Google listed Gemini 4 Argon at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens on 30 September 2026, with a later rate of $4 and $20. Almost nobody can call...
Read moreDetailsGPT-6.1 Sol costs what GPT-6 Sol did, and only the cache got cheaper
A fifth of Astra’s price, yes. Against GPT-6 Sol, the only price that moved is cached input, cut from $0.20 to $0.10.
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