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Darkbloom, a network of Mac machines for serving AI tokens, has moved to a paid tier on OpenRouter, reaching 4.5B tokens served and $102K ARR, with users earning $120-200 per month per machine.
Nous Research announces that Ox Alpha is free via Nous Portal for a limited time, with the portal offering access to numerous AI models at varying token prices.
OpenAI announces API availability and pricing updates for models like GPT-5.6-sol and credits for ChatGPT Work and Codex, with detailed pricing tiers for various services.
OpenAI is accused of secretly modifying quotas and limiting concurrency, affecting personal accounts and proxy services, sparking user dissatisfaction.
A developer shared their experience deploying and optimizing custom AI models for a customer over a week, using posttraining, inference tuning, and orchestration, and promoted services for high-spending AI workloads.
Alexander Koch announces a cleaning service in San Francisco where humanoids can be booked for $30 per hour, demonstrated with a timelapse video.
DeepSeek announced plans to significantly raise prices for its API services, though new rates and effective dates have not yet been published.
LLM routers are evolving from a niche infrastructure trick into a mainstream service category, enabling users to automatically select the most cost-effective model for each request as frontier model costs rise.
TechCrunch covers Ode, a joint venture with Anthropic that aims to deploy forward-deployed engineers in enterprises to bring AI pilots to production, betting that AI-native services will become a major tech category.
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a new enterprise AI services firm, backed by a consortium of major investors including Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Apollo, GIC, and Sequoia.
Anthropic and Blackstone launch Ode, a $1.5-billion AI implementation joint venture, betting that helping enterprises deploy AI models is the next trillion-dollar opportunity. Ode will focus on custom AI systems and work with Anthropic's Claude technology.
Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka launches Hang Ten Systems, a startup aiming to use AI to disrupt the IT services industry, with a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield.
A speculative discussion on whether a fixed monthly price for unlimited use of AI services will ever be offered.
YC Visiting Partner Charlie Warren presents a playbook for building AI-native services companies (insurance, law, tax), covering market selection, variance risks, and financial modeling.
Lists 10 money-making directions for ordinary people in the AI era, including user-facing AI communities, enterprise AI services, arbitraging the information gap between China and the US, selling courses, vertical domain applications, AI company marketing, AIGC, AI variety shows, AI learning IP, and investing in AI stocks.