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The scissors: the frontier got pricier and the open model became pennies

In two weeks, two Chinese labs opened 320- and 770-billion-parameter models under MIT and Apache; OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra at US$ 50 per million tokens and admitted that reading its reasoning has become less reliable; Fudan showed that saturated benchmarks hide half the bugs; and Brazil finally published a tender. Five movements on what intelligence costs — and what the price hides.

1. IThe weight of the weights · Open models
2. IIFifteen cents · Infra and cost
3. IIIThe number that no longer separates · Evaluation
4. IVReading the reasoning · Product · Interpretability
5. VSeven thousand petaflops · Regulation and Brazil