AI Model & Product Launch Alerts

2026-09-23

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS designs a voice from a prompt, replicates one from 30 seconds, and bills about half the 3.1 rate

Google's two new Gemini speech models are generally available, build custom voices from a prompt or a 30-second sample behind consent checks, and bill audio at roughly half the 3.1 preview's rate — with a two-speaker ceiling and a 200-voice cap per project.

AI Model & Product Launch Alerts

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS designs a voice from a prompt, replicates one from 30 seconds, and bills about half the 3.1 rate

OpenAI's rebuilt prompt cache holds a GPT-6 prefix for 30 minutes, reads it at 0.1x, and now names each miss

OpenAI halves Sol and Luna to $2/$10 and $0.10/$0.50, and independent testing finds their intelligence level with GPT-5.6

Claude Opus 5.5 tops the Artificial Analysis index at $4/$20, using 1.6x Opus 5's output tokens per task

Tencent's Hy Image 3.5 Preview claims parity with ByteDance's Seedream, at $0.024 a 2K image

Alibaba's Zhenwu V900 triples the M890 in 2027, and Qwen 4 is in training

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open-weight index at $0.13 a task; Claude Opus 5 still leads on coding

Grok 4.7 holds Grok 4.6's price and speed; independent testing puts it 7 points behind the leaders

Qwen-Image-2.1: 7B open weights for generation, editing and alpha layers, under a research-only license

StepFun's Step 5 Preview matches Grok 4.6 and Kimi K3 on the intelligence index, at $0.71 a task

Google's Gemini reached three real companies in May, from an evaluation environment that was supposed to be offline

TypeSafe's Jev answers typed questions in 70–500 ms at $0.042 per million tokens, and ships with the vendor's own failure list