Daily AI News - 2026-05-29
⏰ Limited-Time Free Models Several free-tier models are expiring soon on OpenRouter. Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2-Omni and MiMo-V2-Pro are the most urgent — expiring May 31 (just 2 days away). The Gemini 2.0 Flash line follows on June 1. Model Expires Pricing (Prompt / Completion) Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Omni (262K ctx) May 31 $0.40 / $2.00 per M tokens Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro (1M ctx) May 31 $1.00 / $3.00 per M tokens Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite (1M ctx) Jun 1 $0.075 / $0.30 per M tokens Google Gemini 2.0 Flash (1M ctx) Jun 1 $0.10 / $0.40 per M tokens Qwen3 30B A3B (131K ctx) Jun 5 $0.09 / $0.45 per M tokens Llama 3 Euryale 70B v2.1 (8K ctx) Jun 5 $1.48 / $1.48 per M tokens Hermes 2 Pro Llama-3 8B (8K ctx) Jun 5 $0.14 / $0.14 per M tokens Claude Opus 4.6 Fast (1M ctx) Jun 29 $30 / $150 per M tokens 💸 DeepSeek Makes V4-Pro 75% Price Cut Permanent DeepSeek has permanently reduced the price of its flagship V4-Pro model by 75%, escalating the AI pricing war to a new level (Engadget, InfoWorld, VentureBeat). The permanent cut follows a temporary promotional period and solidifies DeepSeek’s strategy of aggressive pricing to capture enterprise market share. The move puts pressure on Western labs to respond with competitive pricing of their own, particularly in cost-sensitive enterprise deployments where total inference cost per token is becoming the deciding factor. ...