AI News
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Aug 16, 2026
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Google shipped a workhorse model on the thirteenth of August and put an introductory number on it: three quarters of a dollar per million tokens in. That number holds until the thirty-first of December. On the first of January it doubles.
Aug 10, 2026
Meta published a 30 billion parameter multimodal model today, small enough for one consumer card. The size will get the headlines. The three words that matter for paid work are Apache two point zero.
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Aug 7, 2026
Liquid AI put a 2.6 billion parameter model on Hugging Face on August 4 that runs in under 2.5 GB of memory. It makes no pictures at all, which is exactly why it is worth your attention this week.
