AI model weekly: Week ending November 1, 2026 — Particle-1 lands

Kimi Code K3 is experiencing critical latency and throughput degradation, while DeepSeek shows elevated failure rates requiring immediate reliability checks. Developers should also note significant price volatility across Tencent, MiniMax, and OpenAI models alongside new high-context releases from Mistral and OpenAI.

Outages & incidents

• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 TTFT 响应延迟升高 (impact: critical) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度下降 (impact: critical) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度下降 (impact: critical) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度下降 (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
• 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
• Cursor — Service Degradation - Billing and Usage Dashboard (impact: minor) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — Kimi Code K3 OTPS 响应生成速度严重下降 (impact: critical) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Muse Spark Open US (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Kimi K3 (impact: minor) · status

Reliability watch

• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 526 failed and 1388 degraded checks out of 4992
• DeepSeek: 297 failed and 7 degraded checks out of 4992
• Doubao (Volcengine Ark): 7 failed and 3 degraded checks out of 4992
• SambaNova: 3 failed and 24 degraded checks out of 4992
• xAI Grok: 3 failed and 3 degraded checks out of 4992

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%)
• MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax): $0.15 / $0.60 → $0.075 / $0.30 (-50%)
• GLM 5.3 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0699 / $1.40 → $0.08 / $3.60 (+157%)
• gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI): $0.15 / $0.60 → $0.02 / $0.075 (-88%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0163 / $0.15 → $0.0285 / $0.0923 (-38%)
• gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI): $0.018 / $0.09 → $0.03 / $0.13 (+44%)
• MiniMax M3.1 Flash (MiniMax): $0.075 / $0.30 → $0.15 / $0.60 (+100%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.0825 / $0.33 → $0.13 / $0.53 (+60%)
• Qwen3.8 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.04 / $2.30 → $0.15 / $1.88 (-18%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.75 / $2.25 → $0.83 / $2.50 (+11%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.66 / $1.98 → $0.12 / $4.00 (+102%)
• 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%)

New models

• Particle-1 — Particle Ai · $0.05 / $0.50 · 1049K ctx
• Ternary Bonsai 2 9B — Prism Ml · $0.08 / $0.13 · 262K ctx
• Mistral Large 4 — Mistral AI · $1.36 / $4.18 · 1049K ctx
• GPT-6.1 Terra Pro — OpenAI · $1.00 / $5.00 · 1050K ctx
• GPT-6.1 Terra — OpenAI · $1.00 / $5.00 · 1050K ctx

Deprecations & removals

• Solar Pro 3 retires on 2026-10-30
• Llama 3.1 70B Instruct retires on 2026-11-03
• GLM 4.5V retires on 2026-12-31
• GLM 4.5V retires on 2026-12-31
• GLM 4.7 retires on 2026-12-31
• Trinity Large Thinking was removed from the catalog
• Granite 4.0 Micro was removed from the catalog
• 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
• Solar Pro 3 was removed from the catalog
• Laguna S 2.1 was removed from the catalog

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