GPT-5.6 Luna Is Now Free for Everyone. DeepSeek Raised Its Prices 93%. The AI Price Floor Is Moving.
AI First Pod · Aug 16, 2026 · 5:14
AI First Pod · Aug 16, 2026 · 5:14
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In the same week, OpenAI made GPT-5.6 Luna the free ChatGPT default and DeepSeek raised V4 Flash 93% — both signals that the frontier AI market is finding its real price equilibrium. We cover what both moves mean for enterprise teams, Alibaba's new 27B Apache 2.0 model that runs on a single GPU with 90.3 on LiveCodeBench, and Google's HEIR enabling AI inference on encrypted data for healthcare and finance.
