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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-20 01:11:00

Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-16 01:06:03

SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/

xai-org/grok-build, now open source
xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that entire directory to xAI's Google Cloud buckets. …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-07 18:50:46

While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
simonwillison.net/2026/May/7/x

Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-28 06:30:57

Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-24 06:30:51

DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/

DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …