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DeepSeek V4: Price, Specs, and Why It Is Still a Preview (August 2026)DeepSeek V4-Pro is still a preview, and its price fell 75% since April. Verified status, current API rates, and a dated ledger of what changed.
DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731: The Upgrade Everyone Can Use and Nobody Can DownloadDeepSeek upgraded the V4-Flash API to build 0731 with big agent gains. The open weights are still the April preview. Here is the honest split.
Is Kimi K3 Free? What You Actually Pay WithEveryone says try Kimi K3 free. We read the privacy policy: training on your content, no documented opt-out, and a storage jurisdiction it never names.
When the Government Decides Who Gets AI: The GPT-5.6 SignalFor the first time, Washington is gating who can run a frontier AI model. What the GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 moves mean, and the hedge that still works.