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OpenAI put its most intelligent model on Cerebras chips at 750 tokens a second News
OpenAI is previewing Ultrafast, a service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware at up to 14 times the speed of standard processing and up to 750 output tokens per second.
DeepSeek starts charging rush-hour prices on August 17 News
DeepSeek is replacing flat API pricing with peak and off-peak rates on August 17, and the steepest change hits cached input on its Pro model, which goes up twelvefold during Beijing business hours.
DeepSeek warns of a significant API price rise, five days after being called 100 times cheaper News
DeepSeek added a footnote to its official pricing page warning that it plans to raise API prices significantly in the near future with no figure and no date attached, five days after an independent benchmark study priced its model at roughly 100 times less per task than Western frontier models.
Qwen3.8-Max Shipped as a Paid API, Not as Open Weights News
Alibaba put Qwen3.8-Max live as a hosted API at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, a fifth cheaper than the model it replaces, while the open weights it promised for Max and a 27B sibling have not shipped.
Ant's Ling-3.0-flash goes live free: 124 billion parameters, 5 billion doing the work News
Ant released Ling-3.0-flash on July 23, a 124-billion-parameter model that activates only about 4% of itself per token, with a 256,000-token context and free access on OpenRouter and Vercel's AI Gateway.
Meta opens its first paid model API with Muse Spark 1.1 News
Meta launched a public preview of the Meta Model API built around Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid, developer-facing model service, with a million-token context window, drop-in OpenAI-compatible access, and zero-shot support for new tools.
WeatherNext models on Google Cloud Tool
Google DeepMind's AI weather forecasts, available as a developer API and as raw forecast data in Earth Engine, BigQuery and Vertex AI, with ensemble scenarios out to 15 days.
Vercel AI Gateway (Ling-3.0-flash) Tool
Vercel added Ling-3.0-flash to its AI Gateway with bring-your-own-key support and failover routing, free through August 3. Useful if you want the model behind a single gateway alongside other providers rather than wiring a second API.
Tinker Tool
Thinking Machines Lab's hosted fine-tuning service, now serving Inkling alongside its other models. It is the managed path to customizing Inkling if you do not want to provision the GPUs yourself -- with the caveat that the API caps context at 256K tokens, versus 1M for the open weights you run yourself.
Stack Exchange API Tool
The free, key-less API behind Stack Overflow and its sister sites, which will return exact question, answer and user counts for any date range -- useful for checking claims about the site's decline yourself.
Sakana Fugu Tool
A single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that dynamically routes each request across several frontier models, so you call one API and get a coordinated multi-model answer.
Qwen3.8-Max Tool
Alibaba's new flagship multimodal model, live today as a paid API at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a one-million-token context, function calling, structured output, and prompt caching that drops repeated input to $0.25 per million. Weights are promised but not published.
OpenRouter Tool
A production gateway to hundreds of models behind one API, with public rankings built from real usage and the ability to sort by price, throughput, latency and popularity.
Nano Banana 2 Lite Tool
Google's fastest, cheapest Gemini image model - a text-to-image picture in about four seconds for roughly three cents per thousand images, built for high-volume use.
Muse Spark 1.1 Tool
Meta Superintelligence Labs' multimodal reasoning model built for agentic work - tool and computer use, coding, a 1M-token context window, and subagent orchestration; live in the Meta AI app's Thinking mode and on meta.ai, with a Meta Model API in public preview.
Meta Model API (Muse Spark 1.1) Tool
Meta's first paid, hosted model API, built around the Muse Spark 1.1 multimodal reasoning model -- a million-token context window with active context compaction, zero-shot tool and MCP support, and an OpenAI-compatible interface so existing code drops in with little more than an endpoint change.
Mercury 2 (Inception Labs) Tool
An API-only diffusion language model pitched on raw speed, claiming to out-pace open diffusion models on tokens-per-second for latency-sensitive generation.
LongCat-2.0 Tool
Meituan's 1.6T-parameter MoE model tuned for coding and agentic work, MIT-licensed weights plus a cheap hosted API (launch promo $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens) that self-hosts to avoid data-jurisdiction concerns.
Ling-3.0-flash (free API) Tool
Ant's 124B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates only 5.1B parameters per token, with a 256K context and OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints. Currently free on OpenRouter as inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash:free; aimed at long-horizon agent workflows and tool calling.
Grok 4.6 Tool
xAI's new frontier model, tuned for long-running agents and available day one in Cursor, Grok Build, and the xAI API. Two dollars per million input tokens and six per million output, with a faster variant at double the price.
Grok 4.5 Tool
SpaceXAI's new 1.5-trillion-parameter model, available in Grok Build, Cursor, and the API at $2 per million input / $6 per million output tokens, with a full public release on July 9.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 Tool
The embodied-reasoning half of Google DeepMind's new robotics family, and the only part available now - it reasons about physical scenes and plans robot tasks via the Gemini API and AI Studio, while the models that actually drive motors stay in private preview.
Gemini Omni Flash Tool
Google's new video model offering developers programmable conversational editing - generate and revise clips up to ten seconds by describing changes in words.
Gemini 3.6 Flash Tool
Google's newly GA fast model streams output nearly twice as fast as 3.5 Flash and costs less per task while holding the same intelligence-index score, tuned for high-volume agent loops that use fewer tokens and tool calls.
GLM-5.2 on Baseten Tool
The top trending open-weight model served as a fast hosted endpoint, reported at 280+ tokens/sec on Blackwell-class hardware -- an open model you can call like a closed one.
Firecrawl Tool
A hosted API that crawls, scrapes and structures web pages into clean text for agents and retrieval pipelines, handling the JavaScript rendering and rate limiting you would otherwise build yourself.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (API) Tool
A strong open-weight reasoning and coding model now offered through DeepSeek's own API at a permanently cut, low per-token price, undercutting frontier closed models for high-volume work.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (API) Tool
The updated V4 Flash checkpoint now serves behind the existing deepseek-v4-flash identifier, with a 1-million-token context, 384K maximum output, tool calls, and an OpenAI-, Anthropic- and Responses-API-compatible interface. Fresh input runs $0.14 per million tokens, output $0.28, and cached input $0.0028 - a fiftyfold discount on repeated prefixes.
DeepSeek V4 Tool
DeepSeek's latest model family (a 1.6T-parameter Pro and a 284B Flash, both with a 1-million-token context by default), available as an API and as open weights on Hugging Face.
DeepSeek Harness Tool
Protocol-aware adapter for DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash that handles the wire-level quirks a plain OpenAI client drops, including preserving reasoning_content across tool-calling turns and aggregating interleaved parallel tool-call chunks by index. Ships as a Python library, CLI, MCP server, and skill.
Dahl Inference Tool
Third-party inference router reselling top open-weight models (Kimi K2.6, MiniMax M2.7, GLM 5.2) at low per-token prices, currently running a 100M-free-token promotion.
1F916 Tool
Public discussion forum whose citizens are AI agents, reachable only by JSON API or MCP. Registration issues a secret key, posting is capped at one per day, and the whole ledger is a checkable hash chain. Useful as a working reference design for agent-to-agent coordination.