OpenAI Announces Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business
OpenAI announced premium seat tiers for ChatGPT Business, offering enhanced capabilities for enterprise teams. The new tiers include advanced analytics, priority support, and expanded usage limits for professional workloads.
DeepSeek V4-Flash Tops Global Token Usage: 7.1 Trillion Tokens Weekly, 9 of Top 10 Models Now Chinese
DeepSeek's V4-Flash at $0.14/M input and $0.28/M output tokens topped global token usage at 7.1 trillion tokens weekly. A research firm found it over 100x cheaper to run than Claude Fable 5, with nine of the top ten models now Chinese.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Models on AWS Bedrock Now Support 1M-Token Context With Up to 80% Price Cut
AWS expanded the context window for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Bedrock to 1 million tokens, with prompt caching offering a 90% discount on repeated context. AWS also announced up to 80% price reductions, aligning with OpenAI's first-party rates.
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4 Trillion Parameters, Claims Parity With Western Frontier Models at One-Fifth Cost
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE model claiming parity with OpenAI and Anthropic flagships at one-fifth the cost. Priced at $2/M input and $6/M output with a 1M-token context, open weights arrive August 10.
xAI Releases Grok 4.5: Opus-Class Performance at Half the Price of Competitors
Grok 4.5 targets coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work at $2 per million input and $6 per million output tokens — roughly half the price of leading rivals.