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Here's what happened in AI this week:
1. OpenAI quietly raised prices on GPT-4o
1. OpenAI quietly raised prices on GPT-4o
OpenAI updated API pricing for GPT-4o, catching developers off guard. The move signals confidence in demand — but has the open-source community buzzing about alternatives.
What it means: If you're building on OpenAI's API, audit your costs now. Llama 4 and Mistral are increasingly viable swap-ins.
2. Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.0 Flash is now the speed king
2. Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.0 Flash is now the speed king
Gemini 2.0 Flash is now faster and cheaper than GPT-4o for most tasks. Independent benchmarks show near-identical quality at 40% lower cost.
What it means: For high-volume use cases, Flash is the new default choice.
3. Anthropic ships Claude 3.7 with extended thinking
3. Anthropic ships Claude 3.7 with extended thinking
Claude 3.7 can now "think out loud" before answering — similar to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model. Early tests show significant improvements on complex coding and math tasks.
What it means: Extended thinking is becoming table stakes. Expect every major model to ship this feature by Q3 2026.
4. AI startup funding hits record $8B in February
AI startup funding hits record $8B in February
February saw the highest single-month AI funding on record. Agent-focused startups and infrastructure plays dominated.
What it means: The money is flowing toward autonomous agents and the infrastructure to run them at scale.
5. Top free AI tool this week: Perplexity Deep Research
5. Top free AI tool this week: Perplexity Deep Research
Perplexity's Deep Research mode is now free for 5 queries/day. It runs multi-step research autonomously and delivers cited reports in minutes — replacing hours of manual research.
What it means: Bookmark it. It's the fastest free research tool available.
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