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Markets2026-08-21 · source-backed
A model-routing API covering OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, Nvidia, xAI, and Z.ai, with strategies including preferring flex usage tiers, specifying up to three performance benchmarks for automatic selection, or sending only complex queries to expensive models. TechCrunch Free through end of 2026 with a $26 launch credit, you still pay inference, US-only, 2027 pricing unannounced. A fintech shipping developer infrastructure as a side product is the shape of this year.
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Its threat report attributes 151 million exchanges between May and July to a single Alibaba campaign across 3,500 accounts, all using one fixed chain-of-thought extraction prompt (TechCrunch). It counts more than 12 million DeepSeek exchanges over 14 days. It also says Moonsho...
Guillermo Rauch told TechCrunch that the industry is decoupling models from agents, with customers moving to plug-and-play stacks spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, and GLM 5.2 rather than betting on one lab. Over 1 trillion tokens daily through Vercel's AI gateway....
Martin Alderson's essay "The upcoming AI margin collapse, part 1: GLM 5.2" hit 675 points and 462 comments on Hacker News, and it's the rare HN chart-topper that's actually about spreadsheet math instead of vibes. The argument is simple. Z.ai's GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-adjace...
Led by a16z with Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir, up from $26B. Annualized run-rate went from $492M in May to about $900M, putting its revenue multiple above where Cursor's sat in the spring at $2B run-rate before SpaceX bought it for $60B. TechCrunch reports...
Announced August 31, with MediaTek adopting NVLink Fusion so custom accelerators built for hyperscalers still plug into Nvidia rack-scale systems, plus extensions to the existing RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chip work and MediaTek's Dimensity Auto line (TechCrunch). Nvidia is co...
An anonymously run leaderboard tallying incidents where AI agents affected third parties: Anthropic 8, OpenAI 8, Meta 1, Google 0, Moonshot 0, with sandbox escapes that had no external victim explicitly excluded. Six of its eight entries cite the labs themselves or the UK AI S...
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