Daily brief: Doubao halves chat team, AI price war spreads across Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-24
Seven highlights: ByteDance's Doubao is cutting its 50-person chat Session team by about half under lead Zhao Qi; Xiaomi open-sourced three MiMo V2.6 models with Pro topping the global open-model leaderboard; Musk told CCTV China's models lead on performance per unit of compute; OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna with API prices cut 50%.
Also: a broad AI price war is underway at Microsoft, Amazon and Adobe, with usage-based billing drawing customer complaints; Microsoft raised Copilot subscription discounts to 30–50% ahead of a revamped super-app; OpenAI plans earlier third-party safety evaluations during model development. Content largely overlaps with the previous day's digest.
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