The most powerful open-source model of the year just dropped, and you still can't run it at home
… The API pricing makes Kimi even harder to ignore. …
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 3x the model it replaced, and the era of cheap AI is ending
… Sign in to your XDA account For most of the past couple years, AI pricing has been in flux, seemingly getting cheaper or only slightly increasing. …
I tested a local LLM against a frontier cloud model, and the gap was smaller than I expected
… It's messier than that, but Qwen gives it some fantastic competition. …
I cancelled Claude after 6 months of daily use — here's what went wrong
… Sign in to your XDA account Competition is more important than ever because if companies like Anthropic get free rein, they won’t hesitate to exploit consumers. …
Claude Fable 5 caught bugs GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 missed, then the US government forced it offline
… Not because of a normal product rollback, not because capacity ran out, and not because the company changed its mind about pricing. …
If Claude Code is going away for Pro users, I can't recommend Claude anymore
… On the 21st of April, the company quietly updated its pricing page to show Claude Code as no longer included in the Pro plan . …
I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
… There's one group of people this is especially useful to, and it's the people pricing up an Nvidia DGX Spark, a high-VRAM workstation, or a Mac Studio for local AI work. …
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini get all the hype, but the most interesting AI models are coming from elsewhere
…The company has since raised its prices rather dramatically, told legacy users they will be moved to more modern plans, and has even been banning users deemed to "abuse" the platform . The…