29 October 1

1. 12:22

   Google Cloud AI platform Unveils Ironwood TPU for Enterprise Inference

   Google Cloud launched Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU, delivering substantial inference cost reductions and performance gains for enterprise AI deployments.

   3 min

21 October 2

1. 15:29

   DeepSeek DeepInfer Open Source Release Cuts LLM Inference Costs

   DeepSeek released its DeepInfer inference framework under Apache 2.0 on October 20, 2026, targeting lower costs for large-scale LLM serving.

   2 min
2. 18:33

   MiniMax M3.1 Flash Launches with 70% Lower Agentic AI Costs

   MiniMax released its M3.1 Flash model on October 19, 2026, claiming major gains in speed and efficiency for agentic AI applications at flat API rates of $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens.

   3 min

4 November 1

1. 22:27

   Mistral Large 4 Open Weights Released for 1-Trillion-Parameter Le Chonk Model

   Mistral AI released open weights for its 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 model on October 29, 2026, enabling self-hosted coding agents and multimodal applications.

   3 min

3 November 1

1. 17:29

   OpenRouter Token Volume Hits 194 Trillion in One Week With 10 Quadrillion Annualized Run Rate

   OpenRouter processed 194 trillion tokens in the week of October 26, 2026, setting an annualized run rate above 10 quadrillion tokens for the first time.

   3 min

19 October 1

1. 11:07

   Meta Muse Spark Open 816B Model Released for Coding and Agentic Tasks

   Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model designed for complex coding and agentic tasks, on October 15, 2026.

   3 min

17 October 1

1. 18:33

   Ant Group Ling Model Open Weights Enable 560B MoE Deployment on Four GPUs

   Ant Group’s inclusionAI published open weights for Ling-3.1-Flash, a 560 billion parameter MoE model under MIT license, on Hugging Face in mid-October 2026.

   3 min