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DeepSeek’s official page confirms V4.1-Flash is live as deepseek-flash with a 552B MoE encoder–decoder stack. Pro requests remap to Flash rates from 04:00 UTC on September 14 until V4.1-Pro.
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2 on September 3 at $0.10 per audio hour, a 72% price cut from five months ago. The model supports 60 languages and adds diarization, word-level timestamps, and code-switching for mixed-language audio.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 for general availability and Mythos 5.1 through trusted access. Benchmarks jump on Terminal-Bench-Science and agentic coding; cache-read pricing drops 75% for roughly 25–45% lower total cost at unchanged $10/$50 input/output rates.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released its V4-Flash model at a price point that dramatically undercuts every major competitor, according to benchmark. The emergence of V4-Flash accelerates a structural shift in the AI market.
After an August 6 warning of a “significant” API increase without numbers, DeepSeek published concrete V4-Flash and V4-Pro peak/off-peak rates effective 16:00 UTC on 16 August 2026 — peak output roughly four times the old flat list.
Z.ai opened GLM-5.3-FlashX as a faster API SKU of Flash — claimed ~200 tokens/s, about 2.5× Flash list price, same multimodal stack. Coding Plan still Flash-only for now.
DeepSeek Flash, Qwen3.8-Flash, and GLM-5.3-Flash still price near $0.15/MTok input — while Opus and Sol sit at flagship multiples. Brocker’s baseline table is refreshed from vendor pages as of 15 September 2026.
AI model costs are forcing OpenAI, Meta, xAI and other major labs to shift their sales pitch from raw capability toward cheaper intelligence per task. Enterprise AI bills have become a board-level concern.