This newsletter covers recent developments in the AI industry, including significant pricing shifts by OpenAI, new model releases from Alibaba, and major leadership changes at Google DeepMind.
- OpenAI reduced Luna prices by 80% to $0.20/$1.20 and Terra prices by 20%, while adding Fast Mode for Sol in the API.
- Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4T parameter model with weights coming next week, priced at $2/$6.
- Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO of Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean is leaving to found a new PBC; Koray Kavukcuoglu will now run DeepMind.
- OpenAI's unreleased model Astra solved 10 major open math problems, with notes on the breakthroughs released.
- The White House introduced a frontier AI safety evaluation framework that remains secret and excludes models with publicly available weights.