#Inference Cost
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2026-08-07-Fri
AMD Acquires Toronto Chip Startup Taalas, Etching Model Weights Directly into Silicon
▪ Welding weights into silicon is a bet that model iteration will eventually slow — AMD is willing to place it first.
LatePost Reports ByteDance Discussing a Model with Over 5 Trillion Parameters, the Largest Known in China
▪ Skip the catch-up and go straight for scale — ByteDance is betting that compute can buy time.
2026-08-03-Mon
DeepSeek V4-Flash official release goes live, output price cut to 2 yuan per million tokens — one-twelfth of Pro
▪ The moment a cheap model catches up to a premium one, what gets eliminated isn't the premium model — it's model routing as a business.