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OpenAI Ultrafast, Gemini's Expiry, and Agent Conflicts — August 14, 2026
750 output tokens per second, same model, no accuracy trade-off. Gemini 3.7 Flash halves the price, through December 31. Fast and cheap, both with fine print. We go through what Ultrafast actually unlocks, the January price cliff buried in the Gemini announcement, why multi-agent failures cannot be predicted from single-agent testing, and the open plugin standard six competitors agreed on.
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