Alibaba's Qwen-Audio 3.1 Drops Five Voice Models and Slashes API Prices by Up to 95%
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio 3.1 ships five voice models — including ASR-Next for audio understanding and TTS-Next for single-pass creation — and cuts speech API prices by up to 95%, dramatically lowering the cost of building voice-enabled applications. »
EA Sports FC 27 Launches Today: The Grounds, Free Lite Edition, and 21,000 Players
EA's biggest football game yet launches worldwide today with an open-world social district, a fully rebuilt transfer market in Career Mode, and a free FC 27 Lite download for newcomers. »
Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6: A 1-Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model at a Fraction of the Cost
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a 1.02-trillion-parameter open-source model that handles text, image, video, and audio in a single pass — and costs as little as $0.44 per million tokens, versus $10–$50 for comparable proprietary models. »
Claude Opus 5.5 Is Out: 40% Cheaper, 30% Faster, Better at Agentic Work
Anthropic's latest flagship cuts costs by 40%, accelerates output by over 30%, and sets new high-water marks on coding and computer-use benchmarks — without asking users to pay more. »
xAI Drops Grok 4.7: 2.1 Trillion Parameters, Twice the Speed, Rebuilt Safety
xAI's latest flagship AI model arrives with a 500K context window, near-doubled Terminal-Bench scores over its predecessor, and SpaceX engineering data baked into the training run. »