The Wang ReportAI
Models, money and power behind artificial intelligence.
Aya Nakamura · Sunday 25 October · 4 d ago
Meta suspends Muse sharing after one query finds 6,800 conversation links
A web-address design made shared conversations searchable, exposing a security problem that model testing alone cannot resolve.
New models, 14 days: what they cost ledger
GPT-6.1 Terra ProOpenAI · 10-26$1/$5GPT-6.1 TerraAA 48OpenAI · 10-26$1/$5Kimi K3.1 ProAA 55Moonshot (Kimi) · 10-23$2/$10MiniMax M3.1 FlashAA 43MiniMax · 10-19 · open weights$0.15/$0.6DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017AA 40DeepSeek · 10-17 · open weights$0.15/$0.6
Bar: output price per million tokens, log scale. Label: input/output $ per M. AA: Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
5 more releases, last 30 days
Gemini 4 Argon AA 53 Google · 10-13 · $2/$10 per MClaude Haiku 5.5 AA 43 Anthropic · 10-07 · $0.1/$0.5 per MMistral Large 4 AA 38 Mistral · 10-06 · $1.36/$4.18 per MGPT-6.1 Sol Pro OpenAI · 09-29 · $2/$10 per MGPT-6.1 Sol AA 52 OpenAI · 09-29 · $2/$10 per MThe full model ledger →Compute and power
Compute and power: data-centre and power stories this week 6
xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noiseThe Verge · 7 hVoters in Texas agree: They hate data centersThe Verge · 9 hThe data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US gridTechCrunch · 22 hZelensky: Ukraine’s Data Center Strikes ‘Hurt Russia More’Kyiv Post · 1 dData center backlash is uniting AmericaThe Verge · 1 dHighway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargoArs Technica · 2 d
For scale: data centres used about 415 TWh of electricity in 2024, around 1.5% of the world's total; the US accounted for 45%, China 25%, Europe 15%. The IEA expects about 945 TWh by 2030. IEA, Energy and AI
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