AI model daily brief: September 29, 2026 — GPT-6.1 Sol Pro lands

Major service disruptions at Claude, ElevenLabs, and Cursor demand immediate attention for production stability, while DeepSeek and Z.ai implement significant price adjustments. Developers should prioritize reliability metrics over new model releases like GPT-6.1 to mitigate operational risk during this period of elevated error rates.

Outages & incidents

• Runway — We've identified a problem and are working on a fix (impact: minor) · status
• Cursor — Investigating service degradation - xAI models (impact: major) · status
• ElevenLabs — Agents, STT, and Creative Platform: Increased Latency, Conversation Failures, and STT Failures (impact: major) · status
• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Elevated errors across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API including the Agents API (impact: minor) · status
• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Support available via email · status
• Cursor — Investigating service degradation — Cloud Agents and Grok Bot (impact: minor) · status
• Claude (Anthropic) — Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API (impact: major) · status

Reliability watch

• ElevenLabs: 47 failed and 2 degraded checks out of 720
• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 7 failed and 0 degraded checks out of 720
• OpenAI / ChatGPT: 0 failed and 160 degraded checks out of 720
• Cursor: 0 failed and 126 degraded checks out of 720
• Claude (Anthropic): 0 failed and 62 degraded checks out of 720

Price changes

• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.39 / $3.49 → $0.40 / $3.49 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.92 / $1.83 → $0.96 / $1.91 (+4%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.19 / $3.99 → $0.14 / $3.99 (0%)
• GLM 5.1 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.96 / $3.03 → $1.40 / $4.40 (+45%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.0763 / $0.15 → $0.14 / $0.28 (+83%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.39 / $3.49 → $0.39 / $3.49 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.23 / $3.99 → $0.19 / $3.99 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.39 / $3.49 → $0.39 / $3.49 (0%)
• Qwen3.8 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.0249 / $4.40 → $0.0249 / $4.35 (-1%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.28 / $3.99 → $0.23 / $3.99 (0%)
• Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google): $0.09 / $0.30 → $0.0765 / $0.26 (-15%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.92 / $1.84 → $0.92 / $1.83 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.23 / $3.99 → $0.28 / $3.99 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.92 / $1.85 → $0.92 / $1.84 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.39 / $2.44 → $0.39 / $3.49 (+43%)

New models

• GPT-6.1 Sol Pro — OpenAI · $2.00 / $10.00 · 1050K ctx
• GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI · $2.00 / $10.00 · 1050K ctx

Deprecations & removals

• Qwen3 30B A3B retires on 2026-10-09
• R1 Distill Llama 70B was removed from the catalog

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