News / #pricing Tag Pricing changes 199 articles archived under #pricing · RSS Sign in to follow r/LocalLLaMA community 25d ago It felt good to return my Asus Spark It's an incredible little package but too expensive of a price to pay for the performance and I simply didn't want to be part of the great "Superchip lie" - it could be super, but its super ruined by its limited memory bandwidth even though it *could* be 2x throughput - it… 31 arXiv — Machine Learning research 27d ago Selective-Advantage Entropy-Adaptive Horizon GRPO: Asymmetric Token-Level Discounting for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Language Models arXiv:2606.05434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimisation (GRPO) has emerged as an effective reinforcement-learning algorithm for aligning language models on reasoning tasks, but it treats every token position and every sampled rollout symmetrically. We… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 27d ago Zero-Copy Semantic Contagion: An In-Memory Streaming Architecture for Evolving Attention Graphs arXiv:2606.05733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Per-ticker forecasting models dominate financial time-series work yet remain blind to cross-company propagation: a foundry disruption in Taiwan does not register in a single-asset model until Apple's own price has already moved. To… 20 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 27d ago The Shadow Price of Reasoning: Economic Perspective on Optimal Budget Allocation for LLMs Abstract Inference-time scaling is enhanced through constrained optimization that allocates computational resources based on economic principles, improving performance in resource-constrained environments. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Inference-time scaling has… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 28d ago The price of multi-group transductive learning arXiv:2606.04423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show every multi-group learner in the transductive setting may incur a multiplicative penalty in its error rate on some group relative to the error rate achievable in the single-group setting, and the penalty can increasing… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 28d ago RowNet: A Memory Transformer for Tabular Regression arXiv:2606.04445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real estate valuation is a structured regression problem in which prices are governed by heterogeneous feature types, sparse regional effects, nonlinear interactions, and the practical logic of comparable properties. Standard… 35 The Information — AI news-outlet 28d ago SpaceX Sets $135 Per Share Target Price for IPO SpaceX plans to sell 555.6 million shares at an expected price of $135 each when it goes public, the company said in a securities filing on Wednesday. SpaceX is expecting to raise $75 billion, more than twice as much as any other IPO in history, at a valuation of $1.77 trillion.… 21 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 28d ago Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383056 Points: 219 # Comments: 273 32 arXiv — Machine Learning research 29d ago Human-in-the-Loop Contextual Bandits for Short-Term Rental Dynamic Pricing: Structural Equivalence of Historical Warm-Up and Approval-Gated Live Learning arXiv:2606.02595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic pricing in short-term rental (STR) markets presents a distinctive challenge for online learning algorithms: pricing decisions carry significant financial risk, operators require explainability, and market feedback is sparse… 11 arXiv — Machine Learning research 29d ago GFFMERGE: Efficient Merging of Graph Neural Force Fields and Beyond arXiv:2606.03232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have revolutionized Neural Force Fields for atomistic simulations, achieving near-quantum accuracy at reduced cost, yet adapting these models to new chemical systems requires expensive retraining of… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 29d ago Shopify Becomes Latest Software Firm To Buy Back Shares Shopify said Tuesday that it would expand its share buyback authorization by $3 billion to a total authorization of $5 billion, becoming the latest software firm to unveil expanded share repurchase plans as AI fears have battered stock prices. Several software firms have… 10 r/MachineLearning community 1mo 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… 22 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system. Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day. 18 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit. 27 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra pricetags https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/ai-and-robotics/workstations-ai/nvidia-dgx-station   submitted by   /u/X-N2O [link]   [comments] 5 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago Why our #1 LightGBM feature by importance made predictions worse [D] We recently hit a classic gradient boosting trap with our pricing engine (Flyback), and I wanted to share the ablation data. We run LightGBM quantile regression to forecast secondary market watch prices. We engineered a variant-conditioned Bayesian target encoder to isolate… 7 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options Crescent Island is an air-cooled chip that uses LPDDR5 memory. 30 Import AI news-outlet 1mo ago Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution? 33 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Intel to Ship New AI Chip This Year to Challenge Nvidia Intel plans to ship a new AI chip by the end of this year, betting that a cheaper, simpler processor can give it a new foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia, according to a Financial Times interview with Kevork Kechichian, who leads Intel’s data centre group. The chip,… 28 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Kalimati Vegetable Price Index Forecasting with a Momentum Corrected Online Stacking Ensemble arXiv:2605.30720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting agricultural commodity prices in emerging economies is difficult due to high volatility, frequent supply disruptions, and strong cultural influences on demand. This study introduces the Kalimati Vegetable Price Index… 28 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago GPU Prices. Buy now, or buy later? If the Community could sound off on this, I'd be grateful. Do you think GPU prices are going to stop skyrocketing? Is this FOMO and hype driving the adoption of local inference? I wonder if this mass-market adoption will last for years? Is it a long-term trend? If I wait 6… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Should I buy this RTX 2060 12GB graphics card at around $260 for AI purpose ? I’m interested in running Gemma 4 model/s for text only . It runs smooth even on my laptop but gets crazy hot. Initially wanted to buy an 8 GB card. But I find this price for 12 GB good. (Maybe I can run some image generation models too. But its not important.) It has 6 Month… 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago what do you use your local llm? what do you use your local llm for? for me, i run everything on linux and it ends up generating api tokens i can plug into other stuff. on my laptop (and for personal projects), i mostly use it for coding help—then i’ve got an ai agent (not openclaw ) that monitors stock prices… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago [PSA] 5060ti 16GB for $300.99. 5070ti 16GB for $699.99. Best Buy in store clearance. The 5060ti 16GB(SKU 6630626) has been on clearance for a couple of weeks in Best Buy stores for $419.99. A couple of days ago, it dropped to $300.99. The 5070ti 16GB(SKU 6620367) has been on clearance for $699.99. Not all stores will have these prices. Some still have the 5060ti… 30 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Final 24 hours to save up to $410 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket You now have until tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT to lock in Early Bird savings of up to $410 for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 before prices increase. Join 10,000+ tech leaders in October for one of the most anticipated tech events of the year. Register now. 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago A moment of thanks for DeepSeek Even when I'm not using their models, they're sharing their R&D which benefits the whole ecosystem and consumers, esp. those that make AI cheaper and more efficient. And by setting low prices, they are pushing costs down and reducing prices for us all.   submitted by  … 37 Vercel — AI dev-tools 1mo ago Function invocations now billed per unit Function invocations are moving from package-based to per-unit pricing for Pro and new Enterprise customers. You’ll continue paying the same effective rate until the end of your current billing cycle. Starting with your next billing cycle you’ll be billed per unit to align costs… 28 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago The AI Boom’s Pricey Middle Baseten’s talks to raise fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation are the latest sign that investors are betting the messy work of helping developers run AI models can become one of the next big businesses in AI. That boom has lifted a group of companies including Baseten,… 27 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days There are only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird pricing ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and once the deadline passes, ticket prices increase. If you plan to attend one of the most influential gatherings in tech this year, now is… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Micron Passes $1 Trillion as AI Memory Demand Sends Shares Soaring Micron Technology crossed $1 trillion in market value for the first time Tuesday, as shares climbed 19% on rising demand for memory chips used in AI systems. It was Micron’s largest single-day gain since 2011. The rally came after UBS sharply raised its price target for Micron… 33 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Auditing and Fixing Economic Validity in Tabular Foundation Models for Discrete Choice arXiv:2605.26559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models achieve strong accuracy on choice prediction tasks, but their predictions often violate the economic logic those tasks require: raising a price sometimes increases predicted demand, and implied… 36 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket rates end May 29 Save up to $410 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass before prices increase on May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here to join the tech epicenter in San Francisco. 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago CXMT started selling ram to corsair They started producing cheaper ram for corsair, hopefully it will get cheaper for consumers… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Refined Analysis of Entropy-Regularized Actor-Critic arXiv:2605.24357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we study the role of the critic in actor--critic for entropy-regularized, finite, discounted environments. We establish that, when the critic is exact, using the latter as a baseline is a variance-reduction method in… 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago A Contractive Feedback Semantics for Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2605.24759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discounted reinforcement learning is usually presented through Bellman equations on closed Markov decision processes. This paper develops a compositional view: a one-step decision process is treated as an open stochastic component,… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Word Class Representations Spontaneously Emerge from Successor Representations Trained on Natural Language arXiv:2605.24585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are typically trained to predict the next token in a sequence. Here, we explore an alternative predictive principle from reinforcement learning: Successor Representations (SRs), which model the expected discounted… 24 Vercel — AI dev-tools 1mo ago Vercel Domains now supports price sorting and availability filtering Vercel Domains now supports price sorting and availability filtering. Price sorting shows lower cost domains first, so you can quickly find a domain that fits your budget. Availability filtering moves unavailable domains to the bottom of the search results, so you can focus on… 28 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago 5 days left: Save up to $410 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes before prices increase Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now to save up to $410 before prices increase. 5 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Instance-Optimal Estimation with Multiple LLM Judges on a Budget arXiv:2605.23362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models increasingly relies on LLM-as-a-judge protocols, but such evaluations remain costly: different judges have different prices and reliabilities, and the difficulty of each prompt-response pair can… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago PrefBench: Evaluating Zero-Shot LLM Agents in Hidden-Preference Personalized Pricing Negotiations arXiv:2605.22855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalized pricing negotiations are a challenging testbed for LLM agents because successful interaction does not guarantee profitable decision making. A seller may produce valid actions and close many deals while still pricing… 16 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier? Article URL: https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-support-for-free-tier-?language=en_US Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309 Points: 247 # Comments: 121 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Does GPU spacing matter if we’re undervolting anyways? How close can GPU cards be to each other on the mobo to remain safe and keep the hardware healthy over time? I have 4x 5060ti16gb cards in my mobo (I know 5060ti’s are not ideal when it comes to bandwidth, but I found a few at a decent price so it felt worth it at the time).… 23 Simon Willison community 1mo ago The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly more expensive over the next few years. The short version is that memory… 19 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent > (3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC. https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2057854261699195173 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663… 9 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Oura Confidentially Files for IPO Oura Health, which makes rings that track users’ health data, filed its initial public offering paperwork Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said. Oura has not yet determined the number of shares it’ll offer, nor the proposed offering’s price… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago On the Sample Complexity of Discounted Reinforcement Learning with Optimized Certainty Equivalents arXiv:2605.21763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study risk-sensitive reinforcement learning in finite discounted MDPs, where a generative model of the MDP is assumed to be available. We consider a family or risk measures called the optimized certainty equivalent (OCE), which… 37 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229319 Points: 224 # Comments: 253 22 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Strix Halo 128GB vs M5 pro 64GB What would you pick if they were at the same/similar price, say around $3000 (Macbook pro 16" vs laptop at a little more or even Mini PC at a little less like $2500). Has someone tried both in terms of speed? I use LM studio. I tend to prefer MacOS because of Drawthings, which… 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago LLM planner - pick a rig for your use-case/model/budget, or pick models for your rig. 60+ builds, 50+ models, 130+ cited t/s sources, 150+ reviewer YouTube videos, idle+active watts, multi-region prices, regular updates. TL;DR: Sourced internet info into llm model/hardware choise guide. Two directions: "What rig should I buy for use-case / model /budget?" "I have a 3090 / M3 Max / DGX Spark / Strix Halo / R9700. What runs well on it?" Plus a side-by-side compare mode for rigs and LLMs.… 35 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago With aluminum prices up 20%, recycling startups bet on AI to cash in Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal. 16 Page 3 of 4 · 199 articles ← Newer Older →