TensorWave raised $350 million in Series B funding at a $1.55 billion valuation to expand its AMD-based AI cloud infrastructure. The round was co-led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, with the company pla…
Fireworks AI co-founder Benny Chen joins Ryan to discuss what makes an AI application good or bad, balancing qualitative signals with quantitative metrics in AI evaluation, and how open-source protoco…
NVIDIA is launching a revenue-sharing and credit-support model with AI cloud partners to accelerate large-scale AI factory deployments. The model allows partners to build and operate DSX AI factories …
NVIDIA launched a new business model enabling AI clouds to procure its infrastructure through revenue-sharing and credit-support, accelerating access to large-scale accelerated computing for startups,…
The launch of Z.ai's GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 Flash has created a 50x price gap between open-weight APIs and closed frontier models, reshaping the build-versus-buy calculus for developers. While open-w…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model with full weights on Hugging Face under an MIT license, on June 16. The model outperforms GPT-5.5 on the SWE-bench Pro benchmark with a score of 62.1 ver…
Oxlo.ai offers request-based pricing for AI inference, charging a flat fee per API call regardless of prompt length, contrasting with token-based models used by providers like Together AI and Firework…
A developer compared LLM inference APIs on cost, performance, and integration, noting that most providers use token-based pricing which can cause unpredictable costs for long-context or agentic worklo…
AI token prices are poised to drop sharply as new models and infrastructure expand supply and lower inference costs, according to a Business Insider report citing an unnamed AI infrastructure CEO who …
Enterprise tech giants Microsoft and Snowflake are shifting their AI strategies toward cost efficiency, unveiling products this week designed to reduce compute expenses as customers face mounting toke…
A new pricing comparison tool now tracks 385 AI models across nine providers, including Openrouter, Together AI, and Deepinfra, allowing users to identify the cheapest platform for each model. The com…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Kilo Code with a 20% discount on inference. The new model delivers a 90.5% score on PinchBench, runs at 2.5x speed in Fast Mode at one-third the cost of…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion valuation from October 2025. The Redwood City-based AI inference startup, which proc…