OpenAI Slashes Prices, Google Launches Robotics 2.0 & More
Ben's Bites · rss · 2026-08-04
This issue of Ben's Bites covers major AI industry updates, including model releases, pricing changes, and agentic ecosystems:
- OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra prices dropped by 80% and 20%. Luna at max thinking rivals the best model from four months ago at 8% the cost. Teased new model 'Astra' has solved 10 math and theoretical CS problems.
- Google: Launched Gemini Robotics 2, a single system controlling everything from robot arms to humanoids, supporting complex planning and on-device execution.
- Other Models: DeepSeek V4 Flash expands context to 1M tokens at low cost; Qwen3.8-Max (2.4T) released; Thinking Machines open-sources Inkling-Small; MiniMax launches H3 video model.
- Agentic Ecosystem: Vercel and YC open-sourced internal multi-agent frameworks for marketing, legal, and engineering. Cloudflare released a virtual filesystem and execution runtime for agents.
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