Model launches, lab moves, and the compute bills behind them.
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Meta says its new downloadable model runs at home on 2 Apple Mac Studios. The files it published are 1,644 GB, the 2 machines hold about 1,024 GB, and Apple ships the big one late October.
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A single sign error took down 3 manuscripts from OpenAI's mathematics release. Its own notice says the theorem is not claimed false, and the repository has comments switched off.
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Mistral announced its biggest model on 6 October 2026 and said the weights arrive by the end of the month. This morning there was still no file, and Ollama offers it as a cloud model only.
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8 models with a window near a million tokens, ranked by what one full window costs to send. Reflection announced Beam on 5 October, and this morning there were still no weights to download.
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Simon Willison wants hard budget caps on by default. Each vendor's own billing page, read on 5 October 2026, says 4 of these 5 AI services already stop at a monthly ceiling you never set.
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Cloudflare open sourced Clef on 1 October and charges $0.240 per million input tokens for it. TypeSafe's Jev, the model Cloudflare measures itself against, publishes $0.042.
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Google announced Argon on 30 September at a fifth of Astra's price for an introductory period. It has no row on Google's own pricing page, and its only door is a program with 650 partners.
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