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Gemini API Preview Shutdowns: Veo 3.1 Moves to Omni, Voice Follows in November
Veo 3.1 and Omni previews may end from October 22, TTS and Live previews from November 17. Cost per clip, voice replacements and the January price rise.
Mistral Large 4: What Is Confirmed Before the Weights Drop, and What Is Not
Mistral Large 4 is a 1T-parameter MoE you can call today at a half-price preview. Weights, license and independent scores are still due. What to check.
Decision Models Go Open Weight: Cloudflare Clef, Liquid d1 and TypeSafe Jev Compared
Cloudflare's Clef and Liquid's d1-3B are open-weight decision models. Compared with Jev and OpenAI's Decisions API on license, price, context and limits.
OpenAI Shuts Down GPT-4, o1 and o4-mini on October 23; Copilot Drops GPT-5.5 on October 19
OpenAI's API removes gpt-4, o1, o3-mini, o4-mini and gpt-image-1 on October 23. Copilot removes GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 on October 19. A dated checklist.
OpenAI Decisions API: $0.10 per Million Input Tokens and Nothing for the Answer
OpenAI's Decisions API: public beta, GPT-6 Luna only, $0.10 per million input tokens, no output charge. Where it beats Responses with structured output.
Google Ships EmbeddingGemma 2: Text, Images, Video and Audio in One Vector Space
EmbeddingGemma 2 embeds text, code, image, video and audio in one 768-d space, ungated under Apache 2.0. Real sizes, self-reported scores, what to test.
Claude Sonnet 5.5: Compare Cost per Finished Task
Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5 token prices. Its claimed savings come from using fewer tokens. How to test that claim in your workflow.
Holo4 Combines Computer Use and Tools, with Different Licenses
Holo4 spans GUI, code, MCP and API workflows. Its 27B and 35B-A3B checkpoints have different licenses. What to check before evaluation.
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Always-On Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and Uneven Availability
OpenAI DevDay 2026 announced dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Agents API computer use and plugin extensions. What is live now, what it costs and what to test.
Perceptron Mk1.5 Adds Video Tracking for Embodied Agents
Perceptron Mk1.5 adds audio and video tracking. A September 28 assessment of its hosted API, context budget and integration constraints.
Claude Opus 5.5 Cuts Costs and Changes Conversation Handling
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 release lowers token prices. Its preserved-thinking rules also make conversation history a migration concern for custom agents.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna Bring Lower Prices to Agent Work
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna with lower prices and a shared million-token context window. Compare costs, caching and migration constraints.