🚀 Google preps budget AI tier, China’s low-cost models rattle Silicon Valley
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⚡ Google’s bargain AI bundle, China’s $41-for-life model forcing Valley-wide price cuts, Microsoft-Google-xAI hand govt backdoor keys, one-line open-source jailbreak turns AI into a snitch, 60-second AI restaurant launch
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🤖 Google preps low-cost Ultra Gemini AI plan
Google is quietly trialing a cheaper Gemini tier, demoting the former Ultra model to the mass market. Developers can now tap high-end inference, long-text and multimodal APIs at a fraction of the cost, speeding AI-native app deployment.
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🤖 DeepSeek’s cheap LLM forces SV price cuts—cloud compute fees may drop 50%
The Information: DeepSeek’s latest LLM cost just $6M to train yet nears GPT-4, pushing Meta & Google Cloud to redraw pricing. API fees may halve, letting startups iterate on cheap compute.
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🤖 A$41 lifetime GPT-4 & more: 1min.AI ends 5/10
StackSocial offers lifetime 1min.AI access for A$41 (was A$324), bundling GPT-4 Turbo, Gemini, Meta AI plus 1M monthly credits ≈ 800k words + 161 images. Heavy users on tight budgets now pay a fraction of official rates.
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