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Alibaba just dropped speech-to-text through the price floor — and changed the meter on the way down
Qwen-Audio-3.1 landed at the Apsara Conference on 22 September 2026 with five models and cuts of ~70% on TTS, ~85% on Realtime and up to 95% on ASR. Worked against Qwen's own 25-tokens-per-second audio rate, recognition lands near $0.016 per audio-hour — roughly a tenth of the floor Deepgram, AssemblyAI and Meta had held for years. The catch is that the meter moved from audio-seconds to tokens on the same day, two of the five models have no API yet, and the rate card is not on the international pricing page.
Read story →OpenAI re-hosted the agent layer it spent a year un-hosting — and priced the harness at zero, which is the part that spends your money
The Agents API went to public beta on 10 September with no fee of its own: you pay tokens, tools and container hours. But the free harness is the component that decides how many tokens you burn — it owns compaction, recovery and subagent spawning. Meanwhile sandboxes bill by wall-clock, so the 'runs for days' pitch and the meter point in opposite directions. And in beta it is US-only with no zero-data-retention.
Read story →Coder's Agent Relay runs Cursor on your own infrastructure — but the reasoning loop still leaves the building
Coder announced Agent Relay on 2 September 2026 with SpaceXAI as launch partner, letting banks and government agencies run Cursor's cloud agents inside their own networks. Source code, secrets and tool execution stay on customer machines. Coder's own documentation is equally clear that the agent reasoning loop and every LLM inference call still route through the vendor's infrastructure. That is a real and valuable boundary — just not the one the phrase 'self-hosted' puts in a buyer's head. Here is precisely which risk it retires and which one it leaves exactly where it was.
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