Cheaper From Both Ends
A Chinese lab cut the price of a frontier-class coding model to a fraction of Opus, Nvidia tried to own every layer from the laptop to the data center, and one developer ran the new Gemma 4 on a decade-old Xeon. The cost of running intelligence got attacked from both ends on the same morning — and the question underneath all of it is who gets to set that cost.
MiniMax M3 claims parity with Opus 4.7 at roughly twelve cents per million input tokens versus five dollars — but the weights are promised in about ten days, so "open-weights" is still a countdown.
Nvidia's DGX Station puts a GB300 chip…
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