AI model daily brief: November 3, 2026 — Crouton Alpha lands

Developers should prioritize reliability metrics as Fireworks AI and DeepSeek show significant degradation, while noting substantial price volatility across Qwen, Llama, and MiniMax models. These operational shifts directly impact production stability and cost forecasting, necessitating immediate review of dependency choices.

Outages & incidents

• Runway — Seedance video generations failing or delayed (impact: minor) · status
• Cursor — 3 "Slow clones from GH due to Github degradation" · status
• GitHub Copilot — Incident with Git Operations (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 US (impact: minor) · status
• Cerebras — Partial Service Disruption · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Fast (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 US (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 US (impact: minor) · status
• GitHub Copilot — Incident with API, Git, and Copilot requests (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 US (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 US (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 US (impact: minor) · status

Reliability watch

• DeepSeek: 24 failed and 28 degraded checks out of 720
• Fireworks AI: 0 failed and 458 degraded checks out of 720
• OpenAI / ChatGPT: 0 failed and 146 degraded checks out of 720
• Runway: 0 failed and 30 degraded checks out of 720
• Lovable: 0 failed and 16 degraded checks out of 720

Price changes

• Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.09 / $0.55 → $0.14 / $0.80 (+45%)
• 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%)
• Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google): $0.059 / $0.18 → $0.068 / $0.20 (+15%)
• Llama 3.1 70B Instruct (Meta Llama): $0.40 / $0.40 → $0.72 / $0.72 (+80%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0285 / $0.0923 → $0.0313 / $0.0846 (-8%)
• Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta Llama): $0.10 / $0.32 → $0.20 / $0.52 (+63%)
• MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax): $0.075 / $0.30 → $0.15 / $0.60 (+100%)
• Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google): $0.0765 / $0.26 → $0.059 / $0.18 (-30%)
• Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.07 / $0.28 → $0.15 / $0.60 (+114%)
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.09 / $1.10 → $0.10 / $1.10 (0%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.0825 / $0.33 → $0.13 / $0.53 (+60%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.12 / $0.24 → $0.059 / $0.30 (+26%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.75 / $2.25 → $0.83 / $2.50 (+11%)

New models

• Crouton Alpha — Stealth · Free / Free · 1049K ctx

Deprecations & removals

• MiniMax M2.7 retires on 2026-11-05
• MiniMax M2-her retires on 2026-11-05
• MiniMax M2.1 retires on 2026-11-05
• MiniMax M2 retires on 2026-11-05
• MiniMax-01 retires on 2026-11-05
• Hermes 3 70B Instruct was removed from the catalog
• Hermes 3 405B Instruct was removed from the catalog

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