News / #pricing Tag Pricing changes 500 articles archived under #pricing · RSS Sign in to follow Smol AI News news-outlet 3mo ago not much happened today **Google** rapidly released **Gemini 3.7 Flash** just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, targeting coding, web development, knowledge work, and agentic workflows with a 50% introductory price cut and improved benchmark scores like **DeepSWE 65.3%** and **Code Arena Elo 1588**. The… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Long-Horizon Forecasting of Complete Financial Statements with Forma arXiv:2608.11327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Specialist training beats generalist scale when forecasting financial statements. To our knowledge, no prior work jointly forecasts complete financial statements beyond one year, yet in a discounted-cash-flow valuation most firm… 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Market-Information-Aware Gated-LoRA of Foundation Models for Transferable Day-Ahead Electricity Price Forecasting arXiv:2608.11359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electricity price forecasting is crucial for market participants but remains difficult because prices are volatile, market-specific, and closely tied to anticipated system conditions. Existing supervised methods depend largely on… 5 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago NVIDIA's Fastest Blackwell GPU, the 96 GB RTX PRO 6000, Now Costs $16,000, Almost Double Its Original Price   submitted by   /u/ab2377 [link]   [comments] 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago RTX 6000 PRO price raised to $16,000 USD on the Nvidia website   submitted by   /u/Norwood_Reaper_ [link]   [comments] 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago Optimize Cheap, Deploy Strong: Cost-Aware Cross-Tier Transfer for Evolutionary Optimization arXiv:2608.10694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evolutionary optimization of LLM prompts and agentic programs (e.g., GEPA) is dominated by fitness evaluation: scoring each candidate runs an answering LLM over a validation set, so the evaluator's price tier dictates total… 25 Smol AI News news-outlet 3mo ago not much happened today **xAI's Grok 4.6** advances frontier pricing and performance, scoring **61 on the Intelligence Index** and showing strong agentic results, with **Grok 4.7** already in training. **Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max** open weights release features a **2.4T parameter model with 95B active… 37 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago From Optimal Actions to World Models: Identifiability of Transition Kernels in Discounted MDPs arXiv:2608.07301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study what can be recovered about the transition probabilities of a Markov decision process from optimal actions alone. This is closely related to the inverse problem considered by Letcher et al., who ask when the dynamics can… 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago Underestimated budget solution: radeon 780m iGPU There are so many posts where people complaining about high prices and asking for solution <= 1000 EUR. So, there is one solution to consider: PC/mini PC/laptop on Ryzen 7 260 / Ryzen 9 8945HX /etc CPU with 780m iGPU and 64 Gb of DDR5 RAM. Barebone mini PC costs around 300-400,… 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago Showoff Saturday: Local 4x 6000 Pro (multi-year progression) Not the biggest or shiniest, but it's mine From gaming machine inference on the original llama models, to a 4x RTX 6000 Pro Max Q + 4x 3090s local AI cluster. Pictures are in reverse chronological order! With the pricing apocalypse meaning less builds shared here recently,… 38 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago DS4 Flash incoming price increase "we've been able to reproduce their current prices even on rented GPUs" https://preview.redd.it/kvfk26z2uwhh1.png?width=598&format=png&auto=webp&s=356a8793a6c31bc563d552aaa5a73112ced7372e https://preview.redd.it/xthbu87auwhh1.png?width=598&format=png&auto=webp&s=08f686fee339905a33609a0346f13163aedc2671 Hello, I've seen these tweets from dax… 16 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago AV-AIVAT: 74x Cheaper Agent Evaluation with Certified Anytime-Valid Stopping in Imperfect-Information Games arXiv:2608.06362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deciding which of two agents is stronger means playing games until skill outweighs luck, and every game costs money, model inference, or expert time. Since the number of games needed is unknown, fixed-budget evaluations either… 8 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300-$400 Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker. 35 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker. 17 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago I ported vLLM's serving stack to C++20: 66 MiB binary, no Python at inference, output checked token-for-token against vLLM I'm the author, so discount the enthusiasm accordingly. This is an unaffiliated community port, not endorsed by the vLLM project, which it uses to verify its correctness. What started it: I love vLLM, but a vLLM install here is 9.1 GiB of virtualenv, and I wanted to embed… 36 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago They almost catched up on Frontier performance, so now catching up on prices Users also report that the free version was significantly downgraded after the release of the new models this is very important for us when considering local hosting. A lot of people decided not to buy expensive hardware because DeepSeek’s prices made it very difficult to break… 25 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago I get that AI labs need to make money, but zero-warning price spikes are a nightmare for production builds Seen a ton of posts today about the DeepSeek API price hike. Half the feed is doom-posting, the other half is explaining basic GPU economics. Honestly, I get the cost side. Sub-cent tokens were never gonna last forever. But what actually sucks is the zero-day notice. Dropping a… 23 Smol AI News news-outlet 3mo ago not much happened today **Meta's Muse Spark 1.2** rapidly rose to frontier-tier with top 5 ranking on Vals Index at **$0.69/test**, being **3x cheaper than Kimi** and **10x+ cheaper than Fable, Opus, and 5.6 Sol**. It achieved **gold-medal-level performance in five STEM Olympiads** with perfect theory… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Out-Of-The-Loop Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization arXiv:2608.04113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box optimization is a ubiquitous problem in science and engineering, often dealing with expensive objective functions with cheaper lower-fidelity proxies available. Multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization (MF-BO) is a principled… 28 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Differentiating Through Dual Prices: End-to-End Policy Learning Under Capacity Constraints arXiv:2608.04669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many social services assign scarce resources, such as housing assistance or hospital interventions, to people who arrive one at a time: each arrival must receive a decision immediately, and the long-run usage of every resource must… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Monsoon Mayhem to Market Waves: Forecasting Fisheries Resilience in Sri Lanka arXiv:2608.04023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sri Lanka's fisheries sector is important for jobs and food supply. Between 2019 and 2025, it faced several major problems at the same time, and how these events together affected fish production and prices is still not well… 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago Get AI max+ 395 laptop or wait for rtx spark? So I can either pull the trigger on a 128gb AI max+ 395 laptop or wait for RTX Spark for LLMs. Maybe I get it now and the price of the spark is super high so it's a good purchase or maybe the Spark shocks everyone with a low price and I forever regret my purchasing decision.… 37 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3mo ago Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186762 Points: 226 # Comments: 47 29 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition. 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Neural Networks with Local Converging Inputs for Efficient Options Pricing Models arXiv:2608.02778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel application of Neural Networks with Local Converging Inputs (NNLCI) to improve the efficiency of existing numerical methods for pricing multi-asset options. The most concise input format for NNLCI has been… 29 Vercel — AI dev-tools 3mo ago Full Sandbox egress firewall now available on Hobby plan All Vercel Sandbox firewall features are now available on the Hobby plan. This brings the same network isolation that protects production workloads to the free tier, giving Hobby builders control over exactly what leaves the sandbox while keeping secrets out of the code… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago SK hynix, In Collaboration With SanDisk, Unveils The New High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) Standard, Helping To Resolve AI Inference Bottlenecks, Targeting Up To 3TB/s Bandwidth Hopefully this would let us have faster local models....but it will probably be out of our price range.   submitted by   /u/giveen [link]   [comments] 12 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago FedChronos: Federated Fine-Tuning of Time-Series Foundation Models for Privacy-Preserving Commodity Price Forecasting arXiv:2608.01290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) such as Chronos have demonstrated strong forecasting capabilities across domains, yet adapting them to institutionally fragmented settings, where data cannot be centralized due to regulatory,… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago When May a Model Replace the Experiment? Audits, Licenses, and the Price of Trust in Surrogate-Driven Design arXiv:2608.01378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Design campaigns in chemistry, materials science, and machine learning share a bottleneck: determining how good a candidate truly is requires an expensive evaluation - an experiment, a first-principles simulation, or a full… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago Language Equality has a Price: A Systematic Investigation of Multi-turn LLM Performance for EU-24+ arXiv:2608.01395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We evaluate large language models (LLMs) as language agents playing goal-directed dialogue games in self-play across 30 languages: the 24 official EU languages plus six others. Unlike static or preference-based evaluation, this… 5 Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 3mo ago Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x The end of cheap compute? 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago 70-class VRAM stagnation been thinking about how the desktop 70-class has sat at 12GB for two generations now, 4070, 4070 super, 5070, all 12GB. the 1070 gave you 8GB back in 2016 and it felt generous for the price. ten years later the jump is... 4GB. and the thing is these chips arent even weak. the… 32 Smol AI News news-outlet 3mo ago Qwen 3.8 Max **Alibaba** launched **Qwen3.8-Max**, a **2.4T-parameter** open-weight model emphasizing autonomous coding, long-horizon execution, and multimodal feedback, with aggressive pricing. Early benchmarks rank it highly on human-preference and vision tasks, showing parity with… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago Data Turnstile: A Scalable Open Framework for Function-Calling Data Generation arXiv:2607.29250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) are attractive for agentic deployment due to low latency, reduced cost, and on-device privacy, yet they struggle with tool-use tasks where training data is scarce and noisy. Unlike larger models, SLMs… 13 r/MachineLearning community 3mo ago [D] Self-Promotion Thread Please post your personal projects, startups, product placements, collaboration needs, blogs etc. Please mention the payment and pricing requirements for products and services. Please do not post link shorteners, link aggregator websites , or auto-subscribe links. -- Any abuse… 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731: Models you can run locally now have the intelligence score of the top frontier model from March 2026 March 6th, 2026 the highest intelligence index score was 51 for frontier models. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 that has an intelligence score of 50. If these benchmarks are accurate, models available to run locally on <8K USD (us prices - just guestimating/not exact)… 19 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago Deepseek V4 Flash is now ~#2 open weight model to Kimi K3 and >50x cheaper https://preview.redd.it/h7zv5tb3tmgh1.png?width=2854&format=png&auto=webp&s=507380e8f862c18f10f7c5c84da9e8d1c59139b0 Deepseek's new flash model is unexpectedly cheap and high-performing across useful benchmarks. It's priced at $0.09 / $0.18 per 1M. Truly "intelligence too cheap… 23 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago Translation: We had to cut our price by 80% because a open waits model with 284B and 13B active parameter called DeepSeek v4 flash just price/performance mocked us again.   submitted by   /u/InternationalGap3698 [link]   [comments] 38 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3mo ago DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash-ga Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 285 # Comments: 139 9 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3mo ago DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 423 # Comments: 229 20 Latent.Space news-outlet 3mo ago [AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization Distillation is all you need! 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago Using Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation arXiv:2607.27553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This research evaluates the efficacy of large language models (LLMs) in generating new product ideas. To do so, we compare three pools of ideas for new products targeted toward college students and priced at 50 dollars or less.… 31 Simon Willison community 3mo ago Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Huge price drop from OpenAI today: GPT-5.6 Terra got a 20% reduction, and GPT-5.6 Luna got a massive 80% drop. OpenAI credit 5.6 Sol with enabling this: in How GPT‑5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency they… 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price. 38 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3mo ago Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867 Points: 262 # Comments: 162 27 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago How close are we to local llama robotics for consumer price point? I'm guessing 3 years, what do you think? In other words: many of us will be able to afford a general purpose robot in 3 years to experiment with in the home. Cost roughly $5k? Probably small size, but hopefully still able to do the dishes and operate a vacuum.   submitted by… 13 OpenAI official-blog 3mo ago Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale. 35 Smol AI News news-outlet 3mo ago not much happened today **OpenAI** aggressively cut prices for **GPT-5.6 Luna** by 80% and **Terra** by 20%, introducing a faster **Sol Fast** tier with up to 2.5× lower latency at double the price, improving agent workflow costs by roughly 10×. The **ARC-AGI-3** debate highlighted that the complete… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Inverse Learning of Latent Risk-Neutral Densities from Irregular Option Quotes arXiv:2607.27188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate option prices do not imply accurate recovery of the latent risk-neutral density. We study this distinction with two complementary benchmarks. A controlled benchmark exposes simulator-truth densities for latent evaluation,… 30 Vercel — AI dev-tools 3mo ago AI Gateway: GPT-5.6 pricing and speed updates On AI Gateway , GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra are now cheaper and GPT-5.6 Sol is faster. AI Gateway adds no markup on token pricing, so these changes reach you at the upstream rate. The changes apply to both short and long context pricing. Model Change Input: Short context (per… 4 Page 6 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
