AI model daily brief: October 31, 2026 — Hy3 gets cheaper

Kimi Code K3 faces critical latency issues while Fireworks AI and Cursor report minor degradations, highlighting immediate reliability risks for production workflows. Concurrently, significant price volatility across Zhipu, Tencent, and MiniMax models necessitates careful cost monitoring alongside these stability concerns.

Outages & incidents

• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Muse Spark Open US (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 (impact: minor) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度严重下降 (impact: critical) · status
• Cursor — Multiple services degraded (impact: minor) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度严重下降 (impact: critical) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度严重下降 (impact: critical) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度严重下降 (impact: critical) · status

Reliability watch

• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 117 failed and 455 degraded checks out of 720
• SambaNova: 3 failed and 0 degraded checks out of 720
• Cursor: 0 failed and 22 degraded checks out of 720
• MiniMax: 0 failed and 16 degraded checks out of 720
• Fireworks AI: 0 failed and 10 degraded checks out of 720

Price changes

• GLM 4.7 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.54 / $1.98 → $0.60 / $2.20 (+11%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.13 / $0.53 → $0.0825 / $0.33 (-37%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.83 / $2.50 → $0.75 / $2.25 (-10%)
• MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax): $0.15 / $0.60 → $0.075 / $0.30 (-50%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0197 / $0.12 → $0.0163 / $0.15 (+19%)
• Qwen3.8 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.15 / $1.88 → $0.04 / $2.30 (+23%)
• MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax): $0.075 / $0.30 → $0.15 / $0.60 (+100%)
• MiniMax M2.5 (MiniMax): $0.30 / $1.20 → $0.27 / $0.95 (-21%)
• Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.32 / $3.20 → $0.45 / $2.70 (-16%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.0825 / $0.33 → $0.13 / $0.53 (+60%)
• GLM 5.3 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.08 / $3.60 → $0.0699 / $1.40 (-61%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.75 / $2.25 → $0.83 / $2.50 (+11%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0197 / $0.13 → $0.0197 / $0.12 (-6%)
• Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google): $0.09 / $0.30 → $0.0675 / $0.23 (-25%)

Deprecations & removals

• GLM 4.7 retires on 2026-12-31

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