AI model weekly: Week ending November 8, 2026 — LFM3-1.7B lands

DeepSeek faces major API disruptions while Fireworks AI and other providers report minor degradations across multiple models. Developers should note significant price volatility, including sharp cuts for GLM and Llama models alongside reversals for Tencent Hy3, as new high-context options enter the market.

Outages & incidents

• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Elevated errors with image generation (impact: minor) · status
• GitHub Copilot — Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated users (impact: minor) · status
• Claude (Anthropic) — Degraded performance for Claude Fable 5.1 (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Qwen 3.8 Max (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Fast (impact: minor) · status
• DeepSeek — DeepSeek 网页/API 部分中断（DeepSeek Web/API Partially Unavailable） (impact: major) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Fast (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Flash US (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Flash (impact: minor) · status
• Lovable — Degraded Lovable Cloud project creation (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Flash (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Flash (impact: minor) · status

Reliability watch

• DeepSeek: 148 failed and 28 degraded checks out of 5039
• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 74 failed and 176 degraded checks out of 5039
• Doubao (Volcengine Ark): 2 failed and 11 degraded checks out of 5039
• xAI Grok: 2 failed and 0 degraded checks out of 5039
• Fireworks AI: 0 failed and 739 degraded checks out of 5039

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%)
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta Llama): $0.05 / $0.08 → $0.02 / $0.04 (-50%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.31 / $0.62 → $0.21 / $0.42 (-33%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek): $0.64 / $1.27 → $0.31 / $0.62 (-51%)
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek): $0.15 / $0.60 → $0.006 / $0.50 (-17%)
• 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%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.75 / $2.25 → $0.83 / $2.50 (+11%)
• Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.45 / $2.70 → $0.32 / $3.20 (+19%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.15 / $0.50 → $0.0335 / $0.083 (-83%)
• Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot AI): $0.50 / $2.50 → $0.53 / $3.33 (+33%)
• 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

• LFM3-1.7B — Liquid · $0.08 / $0.20 · 262K ctx
• Ling 3.0 Tiny — inclusionAI · $0.015 / $0.045 · 262K ctx
• Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash — Google · $1.50 / $9.00 · 131K ctx
• Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash — Google · $1.50 / $9.00 · 131K ctx
• GPT-6 Cyber — OpenAI · $20.00 / $100.00 · 922K ctx
• GPT Image 2.6 Flare — OpenAI · $5.00 / —
• GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst — OpenAI · $5.00 / —
• Ripple 65B Preview — Ricursiveai · $0.20 / $0.60 · 1049K ctx
• Hy4 — Tencent · $0.42 / $1.25 · 1049K ctx
• Crouton Alpha — Stealth · Free / Free · 1049K ctx
• GLM 5.3 FlashX Legal — Z.ai (Zhipu) · $0.37 / $1.25 · 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
• Mercury 3 retires on 2026-11-08
• Mercury 2.5 retires on 2026-11-08
• Mercury 2 retires on 2026-11-08
• LFM2.5-2.6B retires on 2026-11-13
• Llama 3.2 1B Instruct retires on 2026-11-15
• Llama 3.2 3B Instruct retires on 2026-11-15
• Kimi K2.5 retires on 2026-11-18
• Hermes 3 70B Instruct was removed from the catalog
• Hermes 3 405B Instruct was removed from the catalog
• MiniMax M2-her was removed from the catalog
• MiniMax M2.1 was removed from the catalog
• MiniMax M2 was removed from the catalog
• MiniMax-01 was removed from the catalog

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