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CAICT report: domestic model prices nearly doubled in 2026, daily token use hit 500 trillion: A CAICT report on token services found domestic large-model prices nearly doubled in 2026 and throughput doubled. First-token latency rose, while daily token use reached about 500 trillion.

AI Industry • Pandaily

MiniMax M3.1 Flash rises 13 points to 42 on Intelligence Index at half its predecessor's cost: MiniMax's M3.1 Flash improved by 13 points to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at half the cost of its predecessor. It scored 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark for under $0.30 per task, matching Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 on both performance and price.

MiniMax • The Decoder