AI model daily brief: October 26, 2026 — GPT-6.1 Terra lands

Developers should prioritize reliability monitoring as Kimi and MiniMax face significant outages, while DeepSeek and Tencent implement volatile price swings ranging from steep cuts to massive hikes. These operational instabilities and cost fluctuations directly impact production budgeting and service availability more than new model releases.

Outages & incidents

• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Flash (impact: minor) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• Cursor — Degraded agent personalization and codebase sync (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for MiniMax M3.1 Flash (impact: minor) · status
• GitHub Copilot — Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 (impact: minor) · status
• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Elevated error rates for Ads POST requests (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 (impact: minor) · status
• Cursor — Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5.5 (impact: minor) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 模型服务持续波动 (impact: critical) · status

Reliability watch

• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 16 failed and 85 degraded checks out of 695
• Oracle OCI Generative AI: 0 failed and 115 degraded checks out of 695
• Google Vertex AI: 0 failed and 105 degraded checks out of 695
• Fireworks AI: 0 failed and 101 degraded checks out of 695
• Cursor: 0 failed and 94 degraded checks out of 695

Price changes

• 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 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.44 / $1.32 → $0.0444 / $0.13 (-90%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.96 / $1.91 → $0.74 / $1.47 (-23%)
• Gemma 4 31B (Google): $0.10 / $0.34 → $0.20 / $0.40 (+18%)
• Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.09 / $0.30 → $0.10 / $0.30 (0%)
• Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google): $0.0675 / $0.23 → $0.09 / $0.30 (+33%)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $0.24 / $10.80 → $0.20 / $20.00 (+85%)
• GLM 5.3 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.079 / $1.40 → $0.0699 / $1.40 (0%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.0825 / $0.33 → $0.13 / $0.53 (+60%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.75 / $2.25 → $0.83 / $2.50 (+11%)
• Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.40 / $3.20 → $0.26 / $2.08 (-35%)
• Gemma 4 31B (Google): $0.20 / $0.40 → $0.10 / $0.34 (-15%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.21 / $0.42 → $0.96 / $1.91 (+357%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0444 / $0.13 → $0.44 / $1.32 (+890%)

New models

• GPT-6.1 Terra — OpenAI · $1.00 / $5.00 · 1050K ctx

Deprecations & removals

• Solar Pro 3 retires on 2026-10-30

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