What changed in AI on 15 Sept 2026
8 events occurred on this UTC day across 2 sections — grouped when several documents describe one release, generated from the database, nothing editorial.
Dates are when events occurredoccurred_at = effective date when a source states one, else the observation time. Hover any date in the list for the observation time. `today` folds events sharing a group_key (one release seen in several documents) into one row.
New models
1 new model
- pii-masking-vllmPerplexity AI
Price moves
Price moves 5
OpenRouter changed pricing for DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813: $0.57948 in / $1.73844 out per 1M tokens → $0.9834 in / $2.9502 out per 1M tokens
$0.579 in / $1.74 out→$0.983 in / $2.95 outopenrouterOpenRouter changed pricing for Z.ai GLM 5.2: $0.6832 in / $2.1472 out per 1M tokens → $1.4 in / $4.4 out per 1M tokens
$0.683 in / $2.15 out→$1.4 in / $4.4 outopenrouterOpenRouter changed pricing for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B: $0.3125 in / $1.25 out per 1M tokens → $0.1625 in / $1.3 out per 1M tokens
$0.313 in / $1.25 out→$0.163 in / $1.3 outopenrouterOpenRouter changed pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423: $0.0763 in / $0.1526 out per 1M tokens → $0.088606 in / $0.177212 out per 1M tokens
$0.076 in / $0.153 out→$0.089 in / $0.177 outopenrouterOpenRouter changed pricing for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: $0.15 in / $1.2 out per 1M tokens → $0.15 in / $1.2 out per 1M tokens
$0.15 in / $1.2 out→$0.15 in / $1.2 outopenrouter
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Model changes
Model changes 3
Z.ai GLM 5.2: max output tokens changed from 131072 to 128000
Max output131.1K tokens→128K tokensopenrouterQwen3.5-35B-A3B: max output tokens changed from 16384 to 65536
Max output16.4K tokens→65.5K tokensopenrouterQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: max output tokens changed from 235929 to 32768
Max output235.9K tokens→32.8K tokensopenrouter
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Events that occurred on this UTC day (effective date when known, else observation date), excluding back-filled history and source-document changes. `today` groups events sharing a group_key (one release seen in several documents).