AI Models & Releases

qwens new omni flash model prices multimodal ai at a fraction of gemini flash The introductory rate for Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash sits at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Qwen has now released a multimodal model priced at $0.15 and $0.47 respectively.

Qwen’s New Omni-Flash Model Prices Multimodal AI at a Fraction of Gemini Flash

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googles timesfm 3 pulls weather promotions and 11 more signals into a single forecast Hand the older model a promotions calendar and nothing happens. Hand TimesFM-3 the same calendar and it starts penciling in roughly 20 percent more units sold on every promotion day.

Google’s TimesFM-3 pulls weather, promotions and 11 more signals into a single forecast

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lyria 3 5 lands in the gemini app but google keeps its training data secret You can now ask the Gemini app to whip up a birthday song. What you can't get is the name of a single artist whose work taught it to do that.

Lyria 3.5 lands in the Gemini app — but Google keeps its training data secret

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metas new speech engine transcribes every 80 milliseconds and its aimed squarely at always on ai glasses Meta's latest speech system decides whether to transcribe once every 80 milliseconds. The speed is not really the story, though. What matters is how the model handles the waiting.

Meta’s new speech engine transcribes every 80 milliseconds — and it’s aimed squarely at always-on AI glasses

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gpt 6 astra lands openai bills its new family as the most intelligent and aligned model in the world Roughly seven weeks. That's the gap between OpenAI putting GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna in users' hands and the debut of a completely new model family, GPT-6 Astra, which the company describes as "the most intelligent and aligned model in the world."

GPT-6 Astra lands: OpenAI bills its new family as ‘the most intelligent and aligned model in the world’

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gemini can now hunt through video on its own and slash token costs up to 88 Hand Gemini a 90-minute lecture, ask a single question about one slide, and up to now the bill covered every last second of that recording. One frame per second, beginning to end, regardless of whether the answer sat at minute three or minute 83.

Gemini Can Now Hunt Through Video On Its Own — And Slash Token Costs Up To 88%

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openai opens chatgpts revamped scheduling hub to free users Back in June, OpenAI carved out a dedicated sidebar slot for ChatGPT's prompt scheduling, largely as a way of signaling that the feature existed. Free-tier users never saw it.

OpenAI opens ChatGPT’s revamped scheduling hub to free users

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nobody knows who built ox alpha and thats the point of a stealth model On Thursday, a free AI model turned up on OpenRouter carrying no name at all. Inside of 48 hours, a slice of the internet had concluded it was Chinese, then walked that back, then landed on Microsoft.

Nobody Knows Who Built Ox Alpha — And That’s the Point of a Stealth Model

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grok 4 6 matches openais flagship on benchmarks while charging a fraction of the price Where Grok 4.6 wraps up a complicated task in roughly 53 steps, Claude Opus 5 takes around 103. That difference reveals more about what SpaceXAI has actually built than any top-line benchmark figure does.

Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI’s flagship on benchmarks while charging a fraction of the price

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bytedances next model could be chinas biggest reportedly 10 trillion parameters The TikTok parent is pretraining a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, the Financial Times reports — a size that would hand ByteDance the largest AI system ever built in China, and by a margin of three to one.

ByteDance’s Next Model Could Be China’s Biggest — Reportedly 10 Trillion Parameters

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