August 7, 2026
- Chinese labs kept squeezing the price floor: Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max jumped 10 points on the Artificial Analysis index to catch Claude Opus 4.8, Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.2 with a coding agent at $0.20/M output tokens, and DeepSeek warned of a "significant" price increase for its hosted V4 Flash. The Decoder · AI & Model Security
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