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DeepSeek is retiring its flagship into its cheap model, and the cheap one has vision

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on 10 September 2026 and said it will route every V4 Pro request to it four days later, at the cheaper price. The pricing table carries the odd part: the model being retired does not support vision, and the one replacing it does.

Ahmad J · Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min read

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Google's cheapest AI plan gets voice in Gmail and Keep, not in Docs

Google added four features to its consumer AI plans on 9 September 2026, and the conditions in brackets are the story. Three of the four skip the entry paid tier entirely, the fourth reaches it in two apps out of three, and on Google's own plans page every tier runs the same model.

Ahmad J · Sep 9, 2026 · 6 min read

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GPT-6 Astra has a million-token window and a price cliff at 272,000

OpenAI's newest flagship advertises a 1,050,000-token context window. Cross 272,000 input tokens by one token and the entire request reprices at 2x input and 1.5x output. The worked example, the multiplier stack, and the four things that actually cut the bill.

Ahmad J · Sep 5, 2026 · 6 min read

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Gemini Flash is half price until 31 December, and Google published the date it ends

Google's pricing page lists 32 Gemini models. Only three carry a second, dated price, and all three are the current Flash line, doubling on 1 January 2027. The comparison that makes it fair, the model card warning that compounds it, and what to budget instead.

Ahmad J · Sep 3, 2026 · 6 min read

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Asked which software to buy, an AI assistant cited a demo vendor's blog more often than Gartner

Independent researchers put 380 software categories to Perplexity's two grounded models and kept all 7,534 citations. Nearly 60 percent point outside the 100,000 most-visited sites, Wikipedia was cited three times, and three sites under apparently common control have published 215,128 generated buying guides. Two of them title their homepage a grounding page.

Ahmad J · Sep 3, 2026 · 8 min read

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