AI model daily brief: October 16, 2026 — Beam 1.0 501B A23B lands

MiniMax is experiencing major outages across LLM and TTS services, while DeepSeek, Tencent, and Z.ai have implemented significant price reductions. Developers should prioritize reliability checks given these stability issues and review the updated pricing for cost optimization.

Outages & incidents

• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Text-to-Speech (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status

Reliability watch

• SambaNova: 12 failed and 2 degraded checks out of 719
• Groq: 4 failed and 23 degraded checks out of 719
• OpenAI / ChatGPT: 0 failed and 325 degraded checks out of 720
• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 0 failed and 164 degraded checks out of 719
• Cursor: 0 failed and 162 degraded checks out of 719

Price changes

• DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek): $0.26 / $1.03 → $0.32 / $0.89 (-13%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.13 / $0.53 → $0.0825 / $0.33 (-37%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.83 / $2.50 → $0.75 / $2.25 (-10%)
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek): $0.15 / $0.60 → $0.036 / $0.64 (+7%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.44 / $0.87 → $0.30 / $0.59 (-32%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.037 / $9.00 → $0.62 / $2.42 (-73%)
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek): $0.036 / $0.68 → $0.15 / $0.60 (-12%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.96 / $1.91 → $0.44 / $0.87 (-54%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0121 / $0.90 → $0.0179 / $0.77 (-15%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0068 / $1.28 → $0.0111 / $1.28 (0%)
• Llama 4 Scout (Meta Llama): $0.18 / $0.59 → $0.10 / $0.30 (-49%)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $0.30 / $11.59 → $0.30 / $12.53 (+8%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0167 / $0.78 → $0.0121 / $0.90 (+15%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0111 / $1.28 → $0.0068 / $1.28 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $1.32 / $3.96 → $0.66 / $1.98 (-50%)

New models

• Beam 1.0 501B A23B — Reflection · $1.00 / $3.00 · 1049K ctx
• Grok 4.20 0309 Reasoning — xAI · $1.25 / $2.50 · 1000K ctx

Deprecations & removals

• Claude Sonnet 4 was removed from the catalog
• Pareto 26.10 Preview was removed from the catalog

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