AI model daily brief: October 29, 2026 — Hy3 gets cheaper

Developers should prioritize MiniMax's major LLM errors and Cursor's ongoing service degradations when planning deployment stability. Meanwhile, significant price reductions for Mistral Large 4 and Tencent Hy3 models offer immediate cost optimization opportunities despite recent catalog removals of several OpenAI variants.

Outages & incidents

• Cursor — Auto Review Degradation (impact: minor) · status
• Cursor — Cloud Agent Degradation (impact: minor) · status
• Cursor — Investigating Service Degradation with VS Code Extensions (impact: minor) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• GitHub Copilot — Disruption with Copilot Cloud services (impact: minor) · status
• Cursor — Degraded performance — Origin and Cloud Agents (impact: minor) · status

Reliability watch

• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 0 failed and 238 degraded checks out of 720
• Cursor: 0 failed and 79 degraded checks out of 720
• Doubao (Volcengine Ark): 0 failed and 3 degraded checks out of 720
• Qwen (Alibaba Cloud): 0 failed and 3 degraded checks out of 720
• MiniMax: 0 failed and 1 degraded checks out of 720

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%)
• Mistral Large 4 (Mistral AI): $1.36 / $4.18 → $0.70 / $2.10 (-50%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.96 / $1.91 → $0.86 / $1.73 (-10%)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $0.20 / $20.00 → $0.24 / $10.80 (-46%)
• Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google): $0.0765 / $0.26 → $0.09 / $0.30 (+18%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0379 / $0.0798 → $0.0457 / $0.0742 (-7%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.006 / $5.40 → $0.006 / $7.00 (+30%)
• GLM 4.6 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.55 / $2.20 → $0.50 / $2.00 (-9%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.0825 / $0.33 → $0.13 / $0.53 (+60%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.75 / $2.25 → $0.83 / $2.50 (+11%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.89 / $1.78 → $0.96 / $1.91 (+7%)
• Granite 4.2 8B (IBM Granite): $0.06 / $0.25 → $0.06 / $0.15 (-40%)
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek): $0.14 / $0.42 → $0.045 / $0.50 (+19%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.15 / $0.50 → $0.0379 / $0.0798 (-84%)

Deprecations & removals

• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking was removed from the catalog
• o4 Mini High was removed from the catalog
• o4 Mini was removed from the catalog
• o1-pro was removed from the catalog
• o3 Mini High was removed from the catalog
• o3 Mini was removed from the catalog
• o1 was removed from the catalog
• GPT-4 Turbo was removed from the catalog

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