News / #pricing Tag Pricing changes 410 articles archived under #pricing · RSS Sign in to follow The Information — AI news-outlet 11d ago Chinese Humanoid Maker Unitree Shares Soar on Shanghai Debut Shares of Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics soared on the debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Wednesday, after raising 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in an initial public offering. The shares surged more than seven times its IPO price before closing 460% up,… 20 Latent.Space news-outlet 11d ago [AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago Deep Learning for Cross-Border Electricity Price Forecasting: A Comparative Study arXiv:2608.17091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While publicly available electricity market data presents a valuable resource for forecasting research, the field lacks established benchmark datasets for standardized comparison. As a result, many studies have relied on different… 12 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago MoFE: A Novel Mixture-of-Experts Framework with Fourier Neural Operators for Cryptocurrency Forecasting arXiv:2608.17342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting cryptocurrency prices remains a formidable challenge due to inherent non-stationarity, abrupt regime shifts, and multi-scale stochastic dependencies. Conventional deep learning models often struggle to capture complex… 37 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 11d ago The Price of Thinking: Reasoning Effort as a Model-Specific API Contract arXiv:2608.16956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: API buyers purchase a dated contract, not a model name alone: the contract includes the requested and served model, reasoning-effort term or its omission, output rail, service product, prompt, and price schedule. We study the… 16 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago Ling-3.0-tiny is a very interesting model. Run on NVIDIA Orin Nano Super 8GB at 128K context with IQ4_NL quant. I have been searching for suitable model to run on my 8GB RAM toy, NVIDIA Orin Nano Super 8GB. This little toy was priced at $249 earlier this year (not any more), and pulls very little power when idle. It was an interesting device that suitable for an agent to host on. It is… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices - 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399   submitted by   /u/johnnyApplePRNG [link]   [comments] 37 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 12d ago Learn What's Left, Not What's Mastered: Saturation Aware Advantage Reweighting for Multi-Reward Policy Optimization Abstract SA-MRPO independently standardizes multi-objective rewards and adaptively discounts saturated objectives to redirect optimization toward under-optimized goals. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Reinforcement learning (RL) with group-relative advantages has… 23 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 12d ago DumpsterCluster: From Dumpster Diving to Serving LLaMA-70B on $60 GPUs Abstract Retired GPUs can form low-cost clusters for LLM inference, but their economic and environmental viability depends heavily on local electricity prices and carbon intensity. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small As AI datacenters retire functional GPUs, vast… 9 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago CDW has bumped the MSRP of the RTX Pro 6000 from $16,000 to $19,999 Did they slip up and leak future pricing? Live link: https://www.cdw.com/product/pny-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-graphic-card-96-gb-gddr7/8326705 Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260818013250/https://www.cdw.com/product/pny-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-graphic-card-96-gb-gddr7/8326705… 19 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 12d ago GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Points: 492 # Comments: 307 18 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 12d ago Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to-10x-the-lowest-ever-tracked-prices-128gb-of-ddr5-now-usd3-399 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334960 Points: 240 # Comments: 177 10 Simon Willison community 12d ago We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of books from apparently price-insensitive anonymous customers,… 12 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 13d ago From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning in Small Language Models with SocialRL arXiv:2608.13787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents increasingly act on their users' behalf, handling tasks such as scheduling meetings, comparing offers, and haggling over prices. These principal-driven tasks routinely place the agent across from a counterpart (another… 15 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 13d ago Not All Tokens Are Equal: Inflation-Aware Routing for Agentic LLM Systems arXiv:2608.13571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model fails to answer a query on the first attempt, an agentic system retries, consuming additional tokens each time. This retry overhead creates a gap between what a model's per-token price implies and what a full… 13 Vercel — AI dev-tools 13d ago GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off on AI Gateway for the next month GPT-5.6 Sol , the flagship of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series, is 50% off on AI Gateway through September 18. The discount applies on the OpenAI provider to all token types, tiers, regions, and modes, and it is available only on requests running directly through AI Gateway (not BYOK).… 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago GPU prices haven't stopped climbing for 3 weeks straight across the EU, here's the data hey again! I run a EU PC hardware price tracker PriceSquirrel , 25+ stores across 9 countries, and wanted to check: are GPU prices actually rising, or does it just feel that way? To make this defensible, I didn't just average "whatever's in stock" each day, that inflates the… 13 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 15d ago OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions. 37 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 15d ago In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/australia-home-batteries Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298910 Points: 221 # Comments: 168 34 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 15d ago Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers. 17 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 16d ago DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296627 Points: 206 # Comments: 108 8 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago It's actually crazy how good DSv4 Flash 0731 is I didn't think we'd get here so quickly. I can run this shit on a computer I spent less than $2k for (back before prices exploded). Crazy world Source: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1   submitted by   /u/Master-Meal-77 [link]   [comments] 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 16d ago Fast A/B/n Testing: Exact Multi-Policy Comparison via Tree-Coupled Feedback Sharing arXiv:2608.12831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online platforms increasingly compare many adaptive decision policies---ranking systems, recommendation algorithms, pricing rules, and language-model agents---while each reward-bearing interaction can be costly or risky. A direct… 25 arXiv — Machine Learning research 16d ago EU-ETS under attack? The impact of carbon price suppression on the decarbonization of the power sector arXiv:2608.12363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: European countries are debating policies to mitigate the increased energy costs caused by renewed geopolitical tensions, while pursuing decarbonization and electrification. A notable example is Italy's 2026 Decreto Bollette… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Mistral is now hosting GLM-5.2 Not directly LOCALLlama related but I thought it was interesting since Mistral and Z.ai are competitors, and more surprisingly they are pricing it (GLM-5.2) even cheaper than their current flagship model Mistral Medium 3.5. Does this suggest a pivot in Mistral's strategy? Are… 15 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price. 28 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago You could purchase a Desktop with 2TB of DDR5 - It only sets you back some $200k+ Just watched Wendell's (level1 techs) latest video on the HP Z8 Fury desktop workstation and was curious how you could configure it. And oh boy, there's an option for 2TB which costs some $211k just for the RAM alone. But the real interesting part with the latest price hikes for… 21 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Deepseek new pricing https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/   submitted by   /u/Comfortable-Rock-498 [link]   [comments] 34 Smol AI News news-outlet 17d 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 17d 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 17d 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 17d 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 18d 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 18d 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 19d 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 20d 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 20d 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 21d 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 23d 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 23d 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 23d 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 23d 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 23d 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 23d 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 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 Page 2 of 9 · 410 articles ← Newer Older →
