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Recursive open-sourced Flint, a 40B MoE coding model with ~2.5B active parameters and 262K context, free on OpenRouter and running 125+ tok/s on a MacBook Pro; MiniMax M3.1 Flash also launched, free on AI/ML API.
OpenAI's API now offers 12-hour prompt caching at the lower cached-input rate; Mistral launched Voxtral 3 speech models on OpenRouter; GMI Cloud offers unlimited free MiniMax M3.1 Flash until Oct 21.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is free for a limited time on OpenRouter, Cline, Ollama Cloud and Command Code; a developer test cost $0.014 vs $1.22 for Opus 5.5. DeepSeek open-sourced its DeepInfer inference stack.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash (Space Bunny) launches with 1M context at $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens and is free for a limited time on OpenCode and Command Code; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 upgrades with SiliconFlow time-based pricing from $0.15.
OpenCode's Console was breached in a large-scale distillation attack affecting 1.4% of users with linked external providers; meanwhile DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 landed on Ollama Cloud and OpenRouter, and Requesty listed DeepSeek V4.1 at 51% off with cached-token pricing.
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 is open-sourced and live across platforms, scoring 77.0 on DeepSWE vs Opus 5's 74.0 at about 20 cents per task; plus GLM 5.3 up to 90% off for seven days and Span-02 decision model at $0.01/M input tokens.
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model with 1M context and full multimodality at $1.25/$4.25 per M tokens; StepFun open-sourced the 600B sparse MoE Step 5 Preview, priced $1/$2.70 on DeepInfra.
Google's frontier model Gemini 4 Argon rolls out globally to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, seeing 3x Claude's launch-day adoption on Cline with 30% fewer tokens; StepFun open-sources its 600B MoE Step 5 Preview with 1M-token context.
Gemini 4 Argon is now available globally across the Gemini app, API paid tier and AI Studio with 1M context, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 output; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and HeyGen Voice also launch with limited-time credits and discounts.
Meta launched the Muse Wonder frontier agent family with 1M-token context at $4/$20 per 1M tokens, live on OpenRouter and more; X Subscription bundles Grok, Cursor and X Premium from $8/month.
OpenAI raised GPT-6.1 Sol's default context in Codex and Work from 272k to 500k with no long-context fees on subscription usage, while OpenCode offers $80 of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash usage credit.
OpenAI completed a global usage reset for Codex and ChatGPT, while Command Code's GOAT plan added Claude Haiku 5.5 with doubled usage, giving about $20 in credits for $10/month.
